The James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding (JWI), located in Washington D.C., seeks to “restore to a new generation of lawyers, judges, and citizens the understanding of the American Founders about the first principles of our law and the moral grounds of their own rights.” On June 8, the Institute [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Robert Cady to its board of directors. Dr. Cady, an internationally known orthopedic surgeon, earned his AB from Hamilton College in 1967 and his MD from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, in 1971. [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the award of the inaugural James Piereson Summer Internship to Casimir Zablotski of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Zablotski is a rising junior at Hamilton College. He is one of the leaders of AHI’s Undergraduate Fellows Program and has served [...]
In the spring/summer issue of Cato Journal, Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), reviews Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg. Dr. Pilon praises Gregg for taking on a daunting task, nothing less than attempting “to define the very essence [...]
AHI Senior Fellow Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor of Political Science, Assumption College, has published “The Conservative Ethos” in the June 22, 2020 issue of National Review. The essay reviews American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition, a hefty anthology edited by Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University. Conservatism [...]
Rioting and disorder has broken out in many American cities in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, an African American, truck-driver and security guard, who was being placed under arrest by Minneapolis police. Angry crowds have looted businesses, destroyed neighborhoods, and assaulted police officers as well as innocent bystanders trying to protect their [...]
AHI Summer Intern Philip Chivily The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the award of a summer internship to Philip Chivily, a Hamilton College undergraduate, class of 2023. Chivily will work with AHI fellows as a research assistant on a wide variety of projects [...]
On Monday, June 8, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., The James Wilson Institute (JWI) will host an interactive Zoom webinar discussion with Juliana Pilon, a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), to discuss her latest book, The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom. Professor [...]
RealClearPublicAffairs, a website “designed to provide coverage of important and trending public policy issues,” created the 1776 Series to educate America’s citizens in the “principles and practice” of the American experience. Toward that end, the editors commission original essays composed by “distinguished historians and scholars.” In the most recent installment in the series, Mary Grabar [...]
Robert M. Whaples, Hough Family Faculty Fellow and Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University, calls Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn (Regnery 2019) the “best defense” against Zinn’s falsification of history. Whaples reviews Dr. Grabar’s book in the spring, 2020, issue of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy. Zinn, Whaples notes, stands as “[t]he [...]
