The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), an educational non-profit located in Alexandria, Virginia, “supports and partners with professors to promote the teaching and research of classical liberal ideas and to advance higher education’s core purpose of intellectual discovery and human progress.” Founded in 1961, IHS has a long and distinguished history in partnering with [...]
March 20, 2020 Dear Friends and Supporters of AHI: COVID-19, the coronavirus, is presenting formidable challenges to us all. Each of us must now make hard choices about how to live our lives and what level of risk is acceptable in conducting our daily affairs in everything from finding groceries to helping loved ones. Yet, [...]
On January 30, the Center for Security Policy, a Washington D. C.-based think tank devoted to understanding the “challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security," hosted a panel of experts to discuss the threat posed by socialism to national security. The three-person panel included Fred Fleitz, the Center’s president, J. Michael Waller, senior analyst [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) proudly announces a Pre-Super Bowl gathering. Douglas Ambrose, Professor of History, Hamilton College, will speak on “The Ironies of The Federalist.” The event will take place from 4 pm to 6 pm, Sunday, February 2, at AHI headquarters, 21 W. Park Row, Clinton. [...]
Applications are now open for the 2020 AHI Washington Program on National Security (WaPoNS) in Washington, DC, June 14 to 28. The deadline for all applications is April 15, 2020. Application materials should be sent to either Senior Fellow Dr. Juliana Pilon (juliana.geran.pilon@gmail.com), or AHI President Robert Paquette (bob@theahi.org). There is no electronic application process. Application requirements: The [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the addition to our website of a very special “Affirmations” section. It consists of scores of one or two paragraph quotations from persons around the country who have benefited from AHI programming. We regard the page as a [...]
Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, will speak on her new book, The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom (Regnery) on October 16, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM at the Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) congratulates Senior Fellow Juliana Pilon on publishing The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom. In a book that ranges from antiquity to modernity, Dr. Pilon, a political philosopher and noted expert on issues of national security, explores the roots of the common [...]
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) recently published the article “It's Not about Israel or Grandmothers, It's about US” in Law & Liberty. Dr. Pilon, who joined the AHI as a Senior Fellow in March 2015, has published extensively on international relations and national [...]
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) recently published the article “Hitler and Stalin Weren't Such Strange Bedfellows,” in The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Pilon, who joined the AHI as a Senior Fellow in March 2015, has published extensively on international relations and national security. [...]
