DAB for BoD
May
09

China is Unhappy

In a recent article on why China is unhappy, AHS co-founder and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Dan Blumenthal explains why the Chinese government is “destroying the traditional Chinese family.”

“A generation of Chinese is growing up without siblings, cousins, uncles, and aunts. Given the importance in Chinese history of the extended family for social insurance and security as well as for the proper ordering of one’s place in society, its destruction has broad repercussions for societal happiness.”

AHS-Texas
Apr
24

University of Texas Chapter declared Best Graduate Organization of 2013

On Tuesday night, the Alexander Hamilton Society’s University of Texas Chapter won the Best Graduate Organization award of 2013. The evening awards ceremony brought several organizations and leaders together to celebrate the chapter’s accomplishments.

“The process involved explaining in great detail the organization’s mission and how we aim to include the UT community and the surrounding Austin community,” explained Sam Spahn, Vice President of the UT-Austin Chapter.

“The largest part of the process was trying to prove how we enrich the lives of the student body.  Our arguments and explanations worked, as we won Best Graduate Program.”

Colby
Apr
24

Elbridge Colby in Politico: ‘Nuclear deterrence still matters’

Yesterday in Politico, Elbridge Colby – a member of our Board of Advisors — published an article on why nuclear deterrence still matters:

“North Korea’s recent belligerence reminds us that the threat of big war, including nuclear war, is not a thing of the past. After 20 years spent focused on humanitarian interventions, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, we face a likely future of dealing with at least one nation, and ultimately probably more, armed with nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles and an evident willingness to strike at us and our allies.”

Federalist Society
Apr
17

AHS featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Alexander Hamilton Society was mentioned in a piece — How Conservatives Captured the Law — published on Monday in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The article, written by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin, was published in coordination with the release date of their new book, The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back From Liberals.

“The Federalist Society has been so successful that organizations outside the field of law and policy have adopted its model… The Alexander Hamilton Society, dedicated to foreign, economic, and national-security policy, was founded in 2010. The group believes that foreign and domestic policy must be shaped to defend the principles of individual liberty, limited government, economic freedom, the rule of law, human dignity, and democracy. The Adam Smith Society was formed recently to achieve in business schools what the Federalist Society achieved in law schools, exposing students to the philosophical and moral underpinnings of capitalism. All three groups are building institutions based on student chapters. And all three groups subscribe to principles of individual liberty, limited government, and free markets.”

John Bolton
Apr
16

AHS Speaker John Bolton ‘warns of foreign policy apathy’

At an event held by the Ohio University Chapter of AHS made campus news.

On Monday night, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton spoke to the students of Ohio University on the barriers to successful foreign policy debate in the United States:

“There are a couple of reasons for (lack of a debate on foreign policy): one is the president of the U.S. and the other is the Republican Party,” said Bolton.

Enough Said
Apr
15

Joshua Muravchik on “The False Scholarship of Edward Said”

In the March/April issue of World Affairs, AHS speaker Joshua Muravchik questions the intellectual influence of Professor Edward Said in “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said.”

“Columbia University’s English Department may seem a surprising place from which to move the world, but this is what Professor Edward Said accomplished. He not only transformed the West’s perception of the Israel-Arab conflict, he also led the way toward a new, post-socialist life for leftism in which the proletariat was replaced by “people of color” as the redeemers of humankind. During the ten years that have passed since his death there have been no signs that his extraordinary influence is diminishing.”

Muravchik, a frequent contributor to World Affairs, is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies.

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Apr
12

“What Fiction Can Tell Us about Afghanistan:” Jennifer Bryson in Public Discourse

This morning, Jennifer Bryson — a member of our Board of Advisors — published an article titled “What Fiction Can Tell Us about Afghanistan” in Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute.

In it she argues that “people are at the heart of what we are doing in Afghanistan. Novels can help us understand them and their cultures in all their subtlety and complexity.”

“How better to understand the personal and collective motivations of negotiators than by reading about the wrangling, maneuvering, backstabbing, plotting, and strategizing of British leadership and tribal chiefs in Kabul in 1841? Though the story is fiction, its tragic ending is a lesson in how not to negotiate. And as fiction, the story would allow students to study negotiation not as a set of distant theoretical principles, but as a dangerous and stressful form of human interaction.”

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Apr
11

AHS Advisory Board Member Jennifer Bryson in the Washington Post

On Monday, Jennifer Bryson — a member of our Board of Advisors — published an article titled “Allow nuns as U.S. military chaplains” in the Washington Post’s “On Faith” column urging the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA to expand the role of Catholic military chaplain to nuns:

“Nuns could fill many of the ministry needs to serve our military personnel, and add to the talent pool among military chaplains. The women who are nuns serve Christ with radical commitment, many have the educational credentials to serve as chaplains, and there are American Catholic women who want to serve both God and country.”

Apr
05

Should America Intervene? (Johns Hopkins University)

On Thursday, March 28th, our Johns Hopkins University Chapter held a panel discussion titled “Should America Intervene.”

The event featured commentary from Brookings Institution’s Michael Doran, Johns Hopkins University Professor Siba Grovogui, as well as the Center for American Progress’s Lawrence Korb and the Rand Corporation’s Christopher Chivvis. The event was moderated by Yehonatan Abramson of Johns Hopkins University.

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Apr
03

Rand, Rubio, and 2016

Yesterday on Ricochet, AHS Advisory Board member Colin Dueck‘s article Rand, Rubio and 2016 provides a comparison of the foreign policy views of Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and the future of foreign policy debate in 2016.

“Historically, conservative Republicans have tended to agree on national security far more than they disagree. But a series of events in recent weeks have suggested the outlines of a fateful intra-Republican foreign policy debate going into 2016.”