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Edmund Burke Association to Hold Inaugural Lecture

From the Alexander Hamilton Institute:

The Edmund Burke Association will hold its inaugural meeting at the Alexander Hamilton Institute on Thursday evening, 7 February.  Robert Kraynak, Director of the Center for Freedom & Western Civilization at Colgate Universityand a Senior Fellow of the AHI, will present at 7 pm on “Conservatism in Modern America:  The Challenge of Edmund Burke.”  Professor Kraynak will explore Burke’s political thought in relation to neoconservatism, libertarianism, and other strands of right-of-center thinking in the contemporary United States.

Professor Kraynak’s talk will be open to the public; a reception will follow.

For differing views of Burke, consult Alan Ryan http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2735 and Peter Stanlis http://www.mmisi.org/ma/26_3-4/stanlis.pdf

Hamilton College’s Republican Club founded the Edmund Burke Association in December 2006 as a study group, open to undergraduates of all political persuasions, interested in political theory and political thought related to the founding of the United States.  The AHI is pleased to host the association’s inaugural event and subsequent activities.

 

Posted on January 10, 2008 at 09:49AM by Registered Commenterhb | Comments5 Comments

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My goodness. What a refreshing event--and how subversive of
the social order at Hamilton College!

Congratulations to the AHC.
January 10, 2008 at 03:32PM | Unregistered CommenterAnon.
The AHI obviously has an important role to play in educating Hamilton undergraduates and others. It seems that neither President Stewart nor Stuart Scott nor any other member of the board of trustees will admit that problems exist. There is no politcal balance in bringing speakers. I made an inquiry on this issue some months ago and apparently was not given a straight answer. The administration seems unwilling to communicate.

I have spoken with other alums who have similar complaints, Some complaints concern matters as basic as a reply to a letter of inquiry.

I intend to go to the Turning Stone event. I'd like to see what the Alexander Hamilton Center has to offer. If that's not good enough, then there is always the blackjack table in the casino.
January 12, 2008 at 07:23PM | Unregistered CommenterD. C. Alum
Visitors to this site may be interested in this indictment of Hamilton College:

http://www.thefire.org/index.php/codes/1067
January 15, 2008 at 05:42PM | Unregistered CommenterReporter
I guess none of the news stories about the AHI/AHC qualified to be included in the "Hamilton makes national news in 2007" section of the January eNews email that I got today. I'm shocked.
January 17, 2008 at 11:19AM | Unregistered Commenter'98 Alumn
More good news coming out of the AHI!

Inaugural Meeting of Christopher Dawson Society
The inaugural meeting of the Christopher Dawson Society for the Study of Faith and Reason will hold its inaugural meeting at the headquarters of the AHI on 29 January at 7 p.m. The society, named for Christopher Dawson (1889-1970), the distinguished British historian of culture and the first recipient of the Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Harvard University, seeks to investigate the relation between religious belief and intellectual inquiry within the Western intellectual tradition. At the first meeting, members will discuss with Professor Douglas Ambrose C. S. Lewis's Abolition of Man and John Courtney Murray's "Is It Basketweaving? The Question of Christianity and Human Values" from his
book We Hold These Truths.
January 17, 2008 at 04:59PM | Unregistered CommenterReporter

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