October 3, 2019
What’s the chief threat to American leadership today? Larry Mead, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University, argues that it is the decline of individualism.
October 3, 2019
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts upholds racial discrimination in admissions by Harvard University.
October 2, 2019
New Civics finds an enemy in standardized testing. It turns out, explains David Randall, that tests require extensive factual knowledge. The sort of knowledge that only comes from in-class education a......
October 1, 2019
A campus fiction about a Catholic professor's encounters with the politics of promotion in academia.
October 1, 2019
Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose extensive field research created a classic in anthropology but also drew sharp criticism from his peers, has passed away. In memory, we republish......
September 30, 2019
Join the National Association of Scholars and the Independent Institute as we bring together scientists, academics, government officials, and philanthropists to discuss practical ways to fix how scien......
September 30, 2019
Professor Gilley examines the state of slavery in Africa and throughout the British Empire at the now infamous date of 1619.
September 26, 2019
More and more students are suing their schools after being wrongly expelled after a Title IX investigation.
September 26, 2019
We are back to our podcast, Curriculum Vitae, now returning from summer break! We’re not quite ready to leave summer, though, because in this episode, Peter Wood and David Randall sit down to di......
September 23, 2019
Join us this fall for conference calls to discuss what’s happening in higher education. We’ll talk about campus culture, history curricula, what presidential candidates have said on higher......
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
