Cormac McCarthy, one of America’s greatest novelists, died in 2023. His corpus of twelve novels includes No Country for Old Men (2005), which was adapted to critical acclaim as a film two years later. Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), reread the novel along with [...]
Hamilton College, like most institutions of higher learning, has their students sign an honor code. It requires that students refrain from academic dishonesty. The code defines plagiarism as “[f]ailure to acknowledge ideas, phrases, data, music, images, or other intellectual property gained from a preexisting body of work.” In October 2002, the president of Hamilton [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, traveled to France last fall at the invitation of the Institut des Sciences Sociales, Économiques et Politiques (ISSEP). His itinerary took him to Paris and the inland municipality of Lyon, France’s third largest city. In the fall, 2023, issue of [...]
On December 5th, three presidents of prestigious Ivy League schools— Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology— traveled to Washington to testify at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the plague of antisemitism sweeping their campuses. Chairwoman [...]
For many historians, Franklin Delano Roosevelt continues to bask in praise as the savior of capitalism during the Great Depression. At a time when protest and violence threatened to undermine the political system, President Roosevelt allegedly stood tall in pushing pragmatic reforms that were meant to coopt progressive and radical leaders poised to undertake revolutionary [...]
From the President’s Desk 4 December 2023 Message from The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Dear Friends of AHI: AHI solicits your support in time of need. AHI had weathered the Covid storm successfully, but inflation and the overall condition of the economy has bedeviled us. As prices soar, [...]
Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), was recently recognized as a Freedom Conservative working to reform higher education in America. The article, "Higher Calling: Universities Need Reform - and FreeCons are Leading the Way," recognizes "Pilon, a FreeCon signatory," as someone who "has chronicled [...]
Pundits and journalists on the left as well as on the extreme right are making the rounds that Hamas is the creation of the Israeli government. Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, finds such claims “outrageous.” In the November 15 issue of the online journal American [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that this evening at 7:00 p.m., Colonel Adam J. Hepp will deliver the Eleventh Annual General Josiah Bunting Veterans Day Lecture. Colonel Hepp’s talk is entitled “‘Never Volunteer for Anything’: Volunteers, Leaders, and the Value of Trust.” [...]
