The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that 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.” The event will take place using Zoom on [...]
On October 7, Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1400 Israeli citizens. They perpetrated atrocities on the bodies of men, women, and children. They took more than 200 hostages. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing a ground assault to free them and deal, once and for all, with Hamas. It will be a hard, determined [...]
We are pleased to announce that The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) undergraduate fellows have released the first edition of the student publication for the fall semester. The publication is devoted to the promotion of “free thought and discourse.” Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows, Volume X, No. 1, [...]
Cancel culture has claimed another victim. Wheaton College, a private liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, has struck off from the library the name of its third president, James Oliver Buswell (1895-1977), a Presbyterian theologian. In an article in the October 18th issue of The College Fix, Mary Grabar comments on the decision. During [...]
The rapidly evolving status of artificial intelligence (AI) holds out promise and peril for the world. Dean Ball, the senior program manager at the Hoover Institution’s State and Local Governance Initiative who is also a member of the board of directors of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), uses [...]
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), responds to the indiscriminate killings and atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israel. Our readers are encouraged to read Dr. Pilon’s article in its entirety because it has lessons for the United States and, indeed, for Western civilization itself. The [...]
The AHI is pleased to announce that Jeff Fynn-Paul will deliver the Fifth Annual Columbus Day Lecture. The lecture will be available on AHI’s website October 9 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Fynn-Paul teaches at the Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands. https://youtu.be/0RcNz4P-dMI
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, pays tribute to Alexander Hamilton in her review of Andrew Porwancher’s The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (2023). A strategic thinker, canny lawyer, and financial genius, Hamilton stands right below George Washington, whom he served as aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War, [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization is pleased to announce that Jeff Fynn-Paul will deliver the Fifth Annual Columbus Day Lecture. The lecture will be available on AHI’s website October 9 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Jeff Fynn-Paul Dr. Fynn-Paul teaches at the Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands. [...]
