This summer strains of Russian can be heard in the mansion that houses The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) as Edward Shvets, undergraduate fellow and 2019 summer intern, keeps in touch with his family. Edward hails from Brooklyn. He grew up in Brighton Beach, a community with a sizeable [...]
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) recently published the review “Antisemitism: Here and Now,” by Deborah E. Lipstadt. Her review was published July 18,2019 in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Pilon, who joined the AHI as a Senior Fellow in March [...]
On 29 June, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) completed its fourth annual Washington Program on National Security. It has been suggested that, in keeping with Washington’s acronym obsession, WAPONS should hereafter be known affectionately as the NSB – which, confidentially, strictly on a “need to know” basis, stands [...]
David Frisk, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has published a review of Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980 by Seth Blumenthal for Liberty Fund’s Law & Liberty website. The review focuses on young people's role in [...]
The Red Hen Inn, located in Lexington, Virginia, home of Washington and Lee University, appears to have adopted a politics of aggressive exclusion in deciding who can eat there. In June, 2018, co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to depart the premises because of her role as White House Press Secretary for President Donald [...]
H. Lee Cheek Jr., Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently published an op-ed in the Savannah Morning News, asking readers to "take long view of American liberty." In the op-ed, Cheek asks readers to reflect on "the foundations of our liberty that the American Founding [...]
In 2009, the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) partnered with the Department of Political Science, Baylor University, to host a summer seminar on “Machiavelli and Shakespeare: Alternative Visions of Modern Politics.” Michael Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor, and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Notre Dame University and Catherine Heldt [...]
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has published a timely essay on the question of whether reparations should be paid for slavery. On June 19 the House of Representative’s Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hold hearings on the issue. [...]
David Frisk, Resident Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has signed a contract with Encounter Books to write the first biography of Willmoore Kendall, one of the most brilliant political theorists in United States history. Kendall (1909-1967) taught political science at Yale when William F. Buckley Jr. [...]
