David Randall

Director of Research, National Association of Scholars. David Randall can be reached at randall@nas.org

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Corrupting the University - August 19, 2025

Shifting Sands: Report V

David Randall, Stan Young and Warren Kindzierski

Shifting Sands: False Positives provides a policy-oriented conclusion to our Shifting Sands reports by outlining Policy Recommendations for how to address the irresponsibility crisis of science p......

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Corrupting the University - January 30, 2025

Waste Land

David Randall, Teresa R. Manning, Neetu Arnold, Mason Goad and Nathaniel Urban

This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term politi......

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Corrupting the University - October 15, 2024

Shifting Sands: Report IV

David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology examines the science underlying implicit bias theory. The report finds that many researchers and legislators believe policies based on this theory are harmful. M......

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Academic Freedom - March 19, 2024

Curriculum of Liberty

David Randall

In this report, we propose the Curriculum of Liberty, in the spirit of NAS’s principles, which will educate American college students toward freedom, the pursuit of truth, and virtuous citizensh......

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Study of the Curriculum - February 20, 2024

Disowned Yankees

David Randall

This study explores the history of Americans' birthright of liberty. We teach our children social studies, above all history and civics, so they can know what liberty is, where Amer......

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Corrupting the University - July 13, 2023

Shifting Sands: Report III

David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Confounded Errors focuses on failures by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to consider empirical evidence avail......

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Study of the Curriculum - January 28, 2023

Taken for a RIDE

David Randall

This study explores the history of Americans' birthright of liberty. We teach our children social studies, above all history and civics, so they can know what liberty is, where America&#......

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Corrupting the University - July 7, 2022

Shifting Sands: Report II

David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Flimsy Food Findings focuses on the Food Frequency Questionnaire and irreproducible research in the field of nutritional epidemiology, which informs the U.S. Food and Drug Ad......

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Study of the Curriculum - February 15, 2022

Learning for Self-Government

David Randall

Americans strongly disagree about how our K-12 schools should teach our system of self-government. Dozens of organizations offer rival civics education resources and many of them don't work. A new......

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Ideology on Campus - May 12, 2021

Shifting Sands: Report I

David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Unsound Science and Unsafe Regulation examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This fir......

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Study of the Curriculum - April 24, 2021

Skewed History

David Randall, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Jason Ross, Bruce P. Frohnen, Amity Shlaes and William Pettinger

Skewed History: Textbook Coverage of Early America and the New Deal is a review and critique of five textbooks’ coverage of four historical periods: The European Settlement of North America......

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Study of the Curriculum - April 3, 2021

Climbing Down

David Randall, Jennifer Helms and James Nations

America’s most popular science curriculum, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), fails students. This report details how the popular curriculum omits basic tenets of science, including t......

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Study of the Curriculum - November 15, 2020

Disfigured History

David Randall

Disfigured History: How the College Board Demolishes the Past details the careless, politicized history in the College Board's revisions of the Advanced Placement (AP) European, United States, and......

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Ideology on Campus - November 29, 2019

Social Justice Education in America

David Randall

Social Justice Education in America is a comprehensive examination of the inner workings of social justice advocates at more than 60 universities and how they have insinuated themselves into......

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Study of the Curriculum - September 19, 2019

Beach Books 2018-2019

David Randall

Hundreds of American colleges and universities assign a summer reading to entering freshmen—usually one book, which is often un-academic and politically progressive. This year, Beach Books finds......

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Study of the Curriculum - October 1, 2018

Beach Books 2017-2018

David Randall

Hundreds of American colleges and universities assign a summer reading to entering freshmen—usually one book, which is often un-academic and politically progressive. This year, Beach Books provi......

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Corrupting the University - April 8, 2018

The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science

David Randall and Christopher Welser

A reproducibility crisis afflicts a wide range of scientific and social-scientific disciplines, from epidemiology to social psychology. Many supposedly scientific results cannot be reproduced, because......

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Academic Freedom - January 15, 2018

Charting Academic Freedom

David Randall

A resource for anyone interested in the issue of academic freedom on college campuses in America. Charting compares fourteen published statements on academic freedom in twenty-five categorie......

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Ideology on Campus - January 8, 2017

Making Citizens

David Randall

The “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism. Rooted in the radical program of the 1960s’ New Left, the New Civics presents itself as an up-to-date version of......

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Study of the Curriculum - June 12, 2016

The Disappearing Continent

David Randall

Much of the European past goes missing in the new AP European History Course and Exam Description. The College Board tells the story of European history as the triumph of secular progressivism, and sh......

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November 20, 2025

Nature's Loveliness, Overdone

David Randall

David Randall assesses Kim Stanley Robinson’s The High Sierra: A Love Story and finds the book plodding yet overwrought in its love of nature absent a human element. 

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November 20, 2025

Woke: The Elite Protection Racket

David Randall

David Randall takes on the widely discussed We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi,which despite its flaws offers a powerful indictment of......

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November 20, 2025

Science Reform Starts with the Feds

David Randall

David Randall makes his third appearance with an evaluation of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress, a book that accuses the EPA and env......

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February 12, 2026

The Climate Science Controversy

David Randall

The Federal Judicial Center’s unwillingness to defend the Climate Science chapter is strong evidence, albeit not dispositive, that the accusation of unprofessional bias was true.

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September 26, 2025

Fighting the Status Quo: Reform Faculty Search Committees

David Randall

The cycle of faculty and administrators stuffing their ranks with left-wing activists rather than educators and leaders must end. It's time to replace higher ed's leaders.

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June 10, 2025

The Alarming Decay of Mathematical Competency in America

David Randall and Jonathan Gregg

America’s existing mathematics standards promote neither high achievement nor democratic accessibility. The National Association of Scholars and Freedom in Education have drafted Model PreK-12 M......

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