September 6, 2011
Richard Shavelson joins Andy Nash for a conversation on measurements and metrics in figuring out the quality of an education.
September 3, 2011
Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly compendium on the relationship beteen Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It's a controversial topic, of course, but I'm beginning to wonder if th......
September 2, 2011
The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases: expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......
September 2, 2011
Student reporters get the Fall semester rolling with observations on the national debt crisis, same-sex marriage, the vocation of college journalists and how to spend your summer break.
September 2, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood offers observations on the diminishing value of a college degree.
September 1, 2011
William H. Young examines the present dysfunctional state of the family in light of its traditional role in Western Civilization.
August 31, 2011
Thomas Bertonneau discusses the reasons why course syllabi have been mushrooming over the years: students are less and less accustomed to academic work, more inclined to complain if things aren'......
August 31, 2011
Peter Wood fears that a new proposal for improving science education will lead to even greater math illiteracy among high school graduates.
August 31, 2011
Can students improve race relations on campus by eating at mixed-race tables?
August 30, 2011
Why is there such ballooning debt among so many new college graduates?
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....
