The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the creation of the E. M. Bakwin Fellowship. Mr. Bakwin, a graduate of Hamilton College (1950) and the University of Chicago (1961), served as Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Bank in Chicago. Mr. Bakwin has had a [...]
AHI director Anne Neal also serves as President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, “a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization committed to academic freedom, excellence and accountability at America’s colleges and universities.” […]
James Bradfield and Carl Menges will present on “Turbulence in the Financial Markets,” Saturday, 1 November, at 4 p.m. in the headquarters of the AHI. […]
Robert Lewit, board member of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, has published an article on the AHI’s inaugural colloquium inInside Academe (volume 3, no. 3-4, 2008), an ACTA publication. Mr. Lewit attended “Liberty and Slavery: The Civil War between Gerrit Smith and George Fitzhugh, on April 10-12, at the Turning Stone Resort. […]
Roger Kimball serves as a member of the AHI’s Board of Academic Advisors. He co-edits with Hilton Kramer The New Criterion, the finest journal of arts and culture in the transatlantic world. He also serves as publisher of Encounter Books, which under his guidance has produced a string of best sellers in the [...]
On Wednesday evening, October 1, Professor Barry Alan Shain of Colgate University spoke to an audience of about 100 students, faculty, and interested laypersons on “Rights Natural and Civil in the Declaration of Indpendence.” […]
Dozens of interested citizens from the Utica-Rome area gathered at the headquarters of the AHI on Saturday afternoon, 4 October, to hear Carla Main speak on the abuse of eminent domain. […]
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970. Because of his criticism of Stalinism, he spent almost a decade in a Soviet labor camp. It failed to break his spirit; indeed, the experience compelled him to write. His first novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962),unforgettably captured the [...]
On Thursday evening 25 September, the Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason hosted Gerald Russello, one of the world’s foremost experts on the writings of Christopher Dawson. […]
John Leo, a distinguished journalist who for 17 years published a syndicated column "On Society" for US News & World Report, has developed Minding the Campus into one of the most accessed websites on educational issues in the country. A division of the Manhattan Institute, Minding the Campus "is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism [...]
