May 11, 2011
A statement of NAS's affiliate the New York Association of Scholars on the Kushner controversy.
May 11, 2011
A Pope Center event brings together a plurality of views to find common goals for higher education reform.
May 9, 2011
In the Chronicle's blog Innovations, NAS president Peter Wood weighs in on the controversy over the CUNY board's decision not to award Tony Kushner an honorary degree. Kushner has received 1......
May 9, 2011
At least that's what you'd think if you didn't read anything besides the Chronicle of Higher Education or its online counterpart, Inside Higher Education. I've long lost count of the......
May 9, 2011
A controversy is raging concerning CUNY Trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld's objections to John Jay College's proposal to grant an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner.
May 9, 2011
When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the stereotypical bowdlerizers of speech--the people excising "offensive" lyrics and literature--were the uptight blue-nosed sort who feared that "someone, som......
May 9, 2011
As Phyllis Schlafly's guest on national radio, Peter Wood spoke about the influence of sustainability ideology on our universities and answered questions from callers about what this means for o......
May 9, 2011
"Grant-seeking is enforcing a tremendous orthodoxy within the academic world in science, which is precisely where orthodoxy should not be maintained."
May 9, 2011
A faculty response and apology appear in the student newspaper after a professor censured a senior for writing an opinion article questioning President Obama's leadership.
May 6, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Jenna Ashley Robinson continues examining the case that higher education is a bubble that may burst or at least deflate. Among other evidence she presents, long-ter......
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....
