David Randall

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

Articles

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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January 28, 2025

America Needs New Science Standards

David Randall

The Franklin Standards are content-rich, rigorous, depoliticized, and should appeal to the broad majority of Americans who want their children truly to be ready for college, career, and informed citiz......

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January 15, 2025

We Must Save American History If We Want to Save America

David Randall

We must resist the latest effort by academic historians to memory-hole our nation’s history.

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April 25, 2024

Letter: Comment on West Virginia Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

These Standards require substantial improvement—and that this improvement should be conducted by recruiting an independent commission to redraft new social studies standards.

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March 25, 2024

What Should College Students Study?

David Randall

I offer Curriculum of Liberty keenly aware that it is only the latest of a great many sketches on how to redo higher education—many of them worthy, few of them influential. But the new......

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December 15, 2023

A Commitment to Intellectual Freedom

David Randall

If our fellow Americans forget their past, how will they know why or how to fight for liberty, in the republic and in the university?

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December 12, 2023

Harvard Corporation Betrays Harvard

David Randall

To those members of the Harvard Corporation who have disgraced Harvard University by retaining Claudine Gay, we repeat what Leo Amery said to Neville Chamberlain in May 1940, as the results of his cat......

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December 11, 2023

Claudine Gay Should Go

Peter Wood and David Randall

The National Association of Scholars calls on the Harvard Corporation to remove Claudine Gay from Harvard College’s presidency, for a myriad of reasons.

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