February 16, 2011
Next Wednesday NAS president Peter Wood will speak in New York City about anger in America now, drawing on his book A Bee in the Mouth. Hosted by the Institute for American Values, the event is free......
February 15, 2011
Christina Hoff Sommers has a sharp article on NRO, debunking the idea that science discriminates against women.
February 15, 2011
Jason Fertig has written a thought-provoking piece for NAS on the problem identified by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in Academically Adrift. He quotes from their conclusion.
February 15, 2011
As the academic job market worsens (was it ever good?), graduate students are angry, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Don't expect a protest march in the streets bur......
February 15, 2011
Russell Nieli offers an appreciation of Daniel Bell, the sociologist who taught us that the modernist elevation of self-expression as a cultural ideal would erode the personal discipline on which ca......
February 15, 2011
We congratulate Professor Blits on being honored for his courage in challenging political correctness at the University of Delaware.
February 15, 2011
A webinar on sustainability education counsels participants to use manipulative psychotherapeutic techniques to influence people to act sustainably.
February 14, 2011
At the Chronicle, April Kelly-Woessner has an incisive piece on outcomes assessment at her university and in higher education at large. She argues that the nation is less concerned about measuring h......
February 14, 2011
Peter Wood's Chronicle article on the Piven-Beck controversy has been getting a lot of attention from five noteworthy online forums.
February 14, 2011
I suspect the answer to that question is "no." As evidence, I'll point to a conference last fall devoted to the British comedy group Monty Python.
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....
