February 28, 2024
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Steven Balch, Naomi Farber, Edward S. Shapiro, R. Lawrence Purdy, and others.
February 28, 2023
Letters to the editor for the 2023 Winter issue of Academic Questions.
February 28, 2024
A social work insider explains that social justice doctrine, Critical Race Theory, and the attendant collapse of academic standards has become even more widely and deeply entrenched within social work......
February 28, 2024
When historian Edward Shapiro attended graduate school at Harvard University in the 1960s, the history department was a “jewel in Harvard’s crown.” Shapiro left Harvard in 1963 just......
February 28, 2024
The recent Supreme Court ruling in SFFA v. Harvard struck down the use of race in college admissions but did not address the propriety of such in the U.S. military service academie......
February 28, 2024
The small but wealthy Middle East “petrostate” of Qatar has emerged as the top foreign funder of American universities, donating at least $4.7 billion between 2001 and 2021. The 2022 NAS r......
February 28, 2024
Political scientist Lawrence Mead argues that much of the racial inequality in America stems from the cultural differences between those of European descent and those from non-European regions of the......
February 28, 2024
Peter Wood recognizes a role for beliefs, behavior patterns, and attitudes in disparate social outcomes, but takes issue with the way in which Mead deploys the term “culture.” Mead, says W......
February 28, 2024
Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss gives a blow-by-blow report based on her participation in the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference on November 4th and 5th of 2022. The conference was organized in the w......
February 28, 2024
An account of Jack Cashill’s fascinating memoir Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities. Cashill’s book focuses on the city of Newark, NJ and chal......
February 28, 2024
Glynn Custred tackles the latest iteration of George Orwell’s life and career, The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky. Stansky focuses on Orwell’s involvem......
February 28, 2024
William Howard reads African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by renowned historian David Hackett Fischer and concludes, “Like other outstanding works of scholars......
February 28, 2024
Aldric Hama looks at Bruce Gilley’s In Defense of German Colonialism: And How its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West, writing that Gilley does another fine job......
February 28, 2024
John Adam Moreau insists that in Wight Martindale Jr.’s American History from the Beginning to 1876: A Home School Guide, we finally have the appropriate rigor, balance, passion, and a......
February 28, 2024
NAS researcher Mason Goad is convinced by John A. Gentry’s explanation for how the U.S. security agencies have become corrupt in Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long......
February 28, 2024
Catharine Savage Brosman reminds us that creating a body of worthy poetry today is no easy feat, requiring both experience and learning. But Jonathan Chaves has apparently achieved this feat in his......
