June 30, 2009
A new organization, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, upholds reasoned inquiry and the pursuit of the truth.
June 29, 2009
What principles about racial discrimination can we take from the case of the firefighters in New Haven?
June 29, 2009
This interview appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Maladies" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3)
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.
June 26, 2009
Robert Jackson says the higher ed zoo needs a Great Conversation.
June 25, 2009
Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.
June 24, 2009
This year a UC Santa Barbara professor sent an email to his class, comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. But where did this professor's academic field, "critical globalization studies"......
June 23, 2009
Arizona puts a civil rights measure on the ballot for 2010. Alexander Hamilton comments.
June 21, 2009
Princeton's gracious campus expresses confidence in the life of the mind; UMass Amherst's Chancellor cries uncle; a New Jersey ghost town points its bony finger.
June 19, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a list of 114 private non-profit colleges that failed the Department
December 16, 2025
Disparate impact theory is on the Trump administration’s chopping block, signaling a move away from discriminatory government policy practices....
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....
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....
