July 27, 2023

VIDEO: 36 Years Fighting Racial Preferences: A Retrospective

National Association of Scholars

Join us for a special webinar event in the wake of Students For Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College to discuss the future of college admissions, how colleg......

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July 27, 2023

A Symposium on Legacy Admissions: Joshua T. Katz

Joshua T. Katz

It is not clear that legacy admissions is (or should be) against the law, but even if it isn’t (or shouldn’t be), the intellectual and moral problems with the practice are a matter on......

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July 26, 2023

A Symposium on Legacy Admissions: Bruce Gilley

Bruce Gilley

Long-standing higher ed institutions are obliged to consider past generations as well as current and future ones. Admitting some students based on this fact is imperative, and part of a prec......

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July 25, 2023

Exposed: The “Chilling Effect”

Kali Jerrard

Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act is facing legal battles—even though it protects academic freedom from the “chilling effect” of higher ed’s politicized orthodoxy, not the othe......

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July 21, 2023

VIDEO: Is Science Broken?

National Association of Scholars

Join us as we take a look under the hood of modern science, and ask the question: is science broken?

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July 21, 2023

Ian Oxnevad on China's "Transnational Repression"

National Association of Scholars

NAS Senior Fellow for Foreign Affairs and Security Studies Ian Oxnevad was recently featured in a discussion hosted by the Hudson Institute. Take a listen as he examines China’s t......

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July 20, 2023

Thank you, Florida, for Fighting Indoctrination

Teresa R. Manning

Last month, two conservative groups made court filings to oppose Florida’s anti-woke law, challenging the statute's constitutionality. But the real problem is bad-actor ideologues and m......

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July 20, 2023

Event: Rethinking Climate Risk

National Association of Scholars

Listen in as we discuss whether the "climate emergency" is real or fiction. 

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July 20, 2023

Reform at Scale: A Map of NAS Initiatives by State

National Association of Scholars

UPDATED: An official tracker of the NAS and Civics Alliance's higher education reform efforts by state. We are working to defend academic freedom for faculty, students, and others, along......

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July 19, 2023

On Collegiality

J. Scott Turner

Increasingly, collegiality is being added to the traditional triad of excellence that wins professors tenure. And now, the issue of collegiality is a fraught minefield, and has become one of......

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William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....