The campaign to erase American heritage continues in the United States. In a recent example, no less than the National Park Service attempted to remove the statue of William Penn, the founder of the province of Pennsylvania. Mention of it in the gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania compelled them to delay the disappearing act. Quaker [...]
Dean Ball serves as the State and Local Policy Senior Program Manager, the Hoover Institution, and as board member, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Mr. Ball received a grant to write a column on artificial intelligence (AI). “Hyperdimensional,” an online newsletter, is a result of this effort. Mr. Ball [...]
Dean Ball, board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), discusses a major fear about artificial intelligence in his new online newsletter Hyperdimensional. In “AI Biorisk: A Dose of Reality,” he stresses that the software—and thus the AI-side of possible biological and chemical weapons development by would-be terrorists— is [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), takes aim at academics who get paid, like himself, to think for a living. He does not like what he sees. In the February 2024 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, he asks, “What’s Wrong with the [...]
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), continues the torrid pace of her publications in 2024. Dr. Pilon has written an article for the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, published online in January 2024; a piece in the February 2024 issue of New English Review; and [...]
For several decades, radicals have made it their mission to destroy the heritage of the United States. Progressive students, faculty, and politicians have been standing in the front rows of these efforts. They have been targeting, for example, statues and buildings, named after Columbus, Confederate soldiers, and the founding fathers. Even tributes to Abraham Lincoln [...]
Dean Ball, a member of the Alexander Hamilton Institute board of directors and the senior program manager at the Hoover Institution’s State and Local Governance Initiative, has spent a decade studying and working on public policy. He recently started writing “Hyperdimensional,” an online newsletter on the Substack platform that will analyze “emerging technology, public policy, [...]
The American Historical Association defines plagiarism “as the appropriation of ‘the exact wording of another author without attribution,’ and the borrowing of ‘distinctive and significant research findings or interpretations’ without proper citation.” Claudine Gay resigned the presidency of Harvard University recently in large part when her very limited scholarly corpus came under scrutiny for the [...]
Dean Ball, a member of the board of directors of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), recently launched on Substack, an online platform, Hyperdimensional. It will focus on emerging technology and the future of governance. A passion for technology and its uses motivated him to introduce this exciting new initiative. “My [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that it will offer two courses for the spring semester, 2024. All AHI courses are free and open to the public. Course #1: Dr. David Frisk will lead both a Zoom and in-person course, “An Introduction to Conservative Thought.” [...]
