Did anyone else know that the legislature funded and established this right wingbthink tank at UF in the last year? UF taps new leader for Hamilton Center The University of Florida has picked a new leader for the Hamilton Center, a civics center established by the Legislature in 2022 and infused with $30 million in new funds to support teaching and research about the ideas that inform Western culture. William Inboden, executive director and chairperson of the Clements Center at the University of Texas-Austin, whose research interests include “American presidency, the Cold War, grand strategy, history and statecraft,” according a news release, was picked for the job. ................... The Hamilton Center was founded in 2022 with a $3 million state allocation when an outside entity with ties to conservative think tanks lobbied for the addition to the flagship school Since then, the school has hired nine tenure-track faculty and 10 lecturers, visiting faculty and postdoctoral fellows. It’s also developed a public lecture series, a fellowship program that includes seminars in England with Oxford University faculty, and six courses — including one about Dante Alighieri’s “Purgatorio” and another titled Happiness and Wellbeing.
Yes. I saw that they created it last year: University of Florida gets $3 million for 'classical' civics program The inaugural director, John Stinneford, is a class act. I didn't pay it much mind at the time because I was confident Stinneford wouldn't act in a partisan manner. Don't know anything about this guy. Saw that he and Ben Sasse are close friends.
