Students and other invited guests at Hamilton College this week watched “Best of Enemies,” a fascinating documentary about a legendary media event—the televised feud in 1968 between the American conservative movement's great intellectual publicist, William F. Buckley Jr., and the outspoken left-wing novelist/essayist Gore Vidal. The highly acclaimed 2015 film, full of clips featuring people [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Tim Minella, one of the first undergraduate students to be nurtured by the AHI, will return to Clinton to speak to students on history and science on Wednesday, April 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45a.m., Room 201, Kirner-Johnson [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Undergraduate Fellows Program will sponsor the showing of "Best of Enemies," on Monday, April 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Bradford Auditorium, Room 125, Kirner-Johnson Building, Hamilton College. The movie is a documentary about the debates between William F. Buckley and [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is excited to announce the completion of the Western Civilization Treasure Room at our headquarters in Clinton. The new room now houses the gift of some “1000 books, primarily focused on Western history and culture” given to the AHI in July by Dr. Robert Hessen of [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Senior Fellow Lee Cheek recently published on traditionalist icon Russell Kirk on the Library of Law & Liberty. In his article, "A Kirkian Renaissance," Cheek discusses the flourishing of Kirk scholarship take taking place today—especially the recent work of Brad Birzer—and with the anticipation of future [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) would like to congratulate Charter Fellow Robert Paquette on the recent publication his review of Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism in the Library of Law and Liberty. In his review, Paquette states that "recent [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the March 8, 2016 issue of Enquiry has been published. Enquiry, is an independent publication sponsored by the AHI. A student-run publication, it has as its mission the promotion of “free thought and discourse.”
Robert Paquette Robert Paquette, Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has published in the spring 2016 issue of the journal Academic Questions an article that provides new information about Chief Justice Roger Taney and his thinking in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Zachary Oscar on being awarded a summer internship with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. ACTA is “an independent, non-profit organization committed to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability at America's colleges and universities.” Each year, ACTA awards internships to both [...]
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) Resident Fellow Dr. Mary Grabar recently wrote an article for Federalist on the Melissa Click case which was also picked up by RealClearPolitics.com. In her article "Melissa Click: One Bad Professor Fired, Thousands More to Go," Grabar discusses that although Click was eventually fired for her [...]
