Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,200 Jews on October 7 escalated open expressions of antisemitism around the globe. Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), explains why this issue is concerning not only for the Jewish people but for Western culture itself. In "Antisemitism Is Not [...]
Friedrich Hayek ranks as one of the most consequential intellectuals of the twentieth century. Trained in economics, he made lasting contributions in law, history, psychology, and political theory as well. His magnum opus, Constitution of Liberty (1960), stood as a ringing defense of individual liberty against the collectivism of his age. Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, [...]
The pseudo-Marxist appellation “critical studies” and “critical Black studies” have entrenched itself in academe. They should set off public alarm bells. “[T]he radical Left loves to lie about terrorist groups,” remarks Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Case in point: the all-out effort among “scholars” [...]
A major part of the artificial intelligence revolution—“AGI,” or artificial general intelligence—is now rapidly coming to the fore, writes Alexander Hamilton Institute board member Dean Ball. The situation suggests that “all of the disruption and tumult wrought by AI could happen on a more compressed timeline than I had expected, say, one year ago.” [...]
The campaign to erase American heritage continues in the United States. In a recent example, no less than the National Park Service attempted to remove the statue of William Penn, the founder of the province of Pennsylvania. Mention of it in the gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania compelled them to delay the disappearing act. Quaker [...]
Dean Ball serves as the State and Local Policy Senior Program Manager, the Hoover Institution, and as board member, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Mr. Ball received a grant to write a column on artificial intelligence (AI). “Hyperdimensional,” an online newsletter, is a result of this effort. Mr. Ball [...]
Dean Ball, board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), discusses a major fear about artificial intelligence in his new online newsletter Hyperdimensional. In “AI Biorisk: A Dose of Reality,” he stresses that the software—and thus the AI-side of possible biological and chemical weapons development by would-be terrorists— is [...]
Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), takes aim at academics who get paid, like himself, to think for a living. He does not like what he sees. In the February 2024 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, he asks, “What’s Wrong with the [...]
Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), continues the torrid pace of her publications in 2024. Dr. Pilon has written an article for the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, published online in January 2024; a piece in the February 2024 issue of New English Review; and [...]
For several decades, radicals have made it their mission to destroy the heritage of the United States. Progressive students, faculty, and politicians have been standing in the front rows of these efforts. They have been targeting, for example, statues and buildings, named after Columbus, Confederate soldiers, and the founding fathers. Even tributes to Abraham Lincoln [...]
