May 8, 2012
A reply by the board of a scholarly organization to Peter Wood’s Comments on “Critical Thinking.”
May 7, 2012
Has there ever been a president who did not run for a second term by choice?
May 4, 2012
Teachers have a "moral imperative" to shape students' beliefs and make them "agents for change," declared a lanugage professor at a recent Berkeley lecture.
May 4, 2012
I have recently returned from a trip abroad. In receiving my peanuts, pretzels and drink during the flight, I also received two napkins.
May 4, 2012
Most of the job openings in the labor market in the next decade won't require college education.
May 3, 2012
This week brought a shower of pronouncements about how college is squandering American resources.
May 3, 2012
William Young examines the role of Community Colleges in American higher education.
May 2, 2012
The College of Letters and Science at the University of California-Los Angeles will soon vote on whether to add a required general education course called "Community and Conflict" - which simply tur......
April 30, 2012
NAS mourns the passing of an intrepid advocate of free inquiry and democracy.
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....
