March 16, 2010
America's animating principle at its founding was virtue; its inhabitants instinctively claim that virtue, appealing to "liberty and justice for all."
March 16, 2010
Global warming evangelists use a peculiar form of apologetics to reassure the public that they're still right.
March 16, 2010
From 1973 to 2007, the percentage of students who enroll in college jumped 20%.
March 15, 2010
Earlier this month NAS covered the March 4 rallies in California and all over the country, where students protested exorbitant tuition prices due to state budget cuts to public higher education. Whi......
March 15, 2010
In today's Pope Center piece, Larry Purdy (one of the lawyers who worked on the Grutter case) reviews Affirmative Action for the Future by Notre Dame philosophy professor James Sterba. Purdy fin......
March 15, 2010
Communist countries like Russia have developed with extraordinary speed in the past decades entirely by means of public enterprise. In fact, by our index of the rate of economic growth, i.e.,......
March 15, 2010
A French court puts an American editor on trial over a German book review that offended an Israeli scholar. Hmm...
March 15, 2010
Peter Wood paints a picture of what federal control of higher education could look like in practice.
March 15, 2010
Enlightenment thinkers concluded that the balance of power can recover its stability but that the loss of public virtue occurs slowly and is not recoverable.
March 12, 2010
In his book Moral Development: Advances in Research and Theory (NY: Praeger, 1986) James Rest of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues describe their work on "moral maturity" using the......
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....
