The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization would like to congratulate Undergraduate Fellow Dean Ball, a student at Hamilton College and former intern at Manhattan Institute on the publication of his interview with professor Mark Lilla entitled “The Trouble With Conservatives.” Mark Lilla, an essayist, historian of ideas and professor of the humanities at Columbia University, is best known for his books The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics and The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.