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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. [...]
Joe Simonson, media reporter and critic with The Daily Caller News Foundation, recently published the article "Bernie Sanders Campaigned for Marxist Party in Reagan Era," in the Washington Examiner. Simonson, is an alumnus of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and co-founder of the student newsletter Enquiry. [...]
Roger Kimball's article "PC Insanity may Mean the End of American Universities," was recently published in the New York Post. Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and President and publisher of ENCOUNTER BOOKS. He is also an Academic Advisor to the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Roger Kimball was [...]
Prufrock, a widely read "email newsletter on books, arts, and ideas" has singled out David Frisk's review, "Conservative Culture," for special attention. Dr. David Frisk, a Resident Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study for Western Civilization (AHI), finds Arnold Steinberg's memoir Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump: A Political Odyssey a refreshing [...]