About Us

Paul Carrier and Joe Simonson founded Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows in 2013 to provide students with an outlet for “free thought and discourse.” Then, and even more so still today, free thought and discourse are under attack at colleges and universities. College administrators and professors subordinated lively and valuable political discussion to activists’ demands that certain voices be silenced.

Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows exists for those silenced voices.

With the support of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows publishes student opinion pieces on political, cultural, and economic issues. We print points of view and arguments that do not appear in many campus publications, and we welcome well-reasoned, well-written articles by students across the political spectrum, from paleoconservative to progressive.

Emotions run high when college students engage politics, but the written word can be an antidote. It forces students to stop, think, and argue persuasively. Here you will find no shouting matches, no sloganeering. The goal is to elevate discussion, not to end it. Here, no debates are over and settled, and no ideas are safe from criticism.

Our writers and editors have benefited from studying under Professors Robert Paquette and Doug Ambrose, both co-founders of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Their dedication to improving students’ writing is unsurpassed. It would be difficult to overstate our gratitude to our mentors and to The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and its supporters.

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