David Randall

Director of Research, National Association of Scholars. David Randall can be reached at [email protected]

Academic Questions

December 12, 2024

Is Western Civilization Real?

David Randall

David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world......

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December 12, 2024

All Is Ok with the Universities

David Randall

David Randall lambasts Michael S. Roth for using The Student: A Short History to give us a “complacent and tranquilizing reassurance that nothing has gone wrong” in American higher educati......

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September 18, 2024

Missives from Two College Presidents

David Randall

NAS research director David Randall looks at memoirs by two former presidents of elite universities, only to find self-congratulatory and unintended exposes of how these “confidence men,”......

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September 18, 2024

Should Liberals Side With Conservatives against Woke?

David Randall

Randall also leads us through a reading of Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening, perhaps the most important treatment of the rise of woke ideology. Where Richard Hanania finds wokeism gestat......

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October 23, 2023

What We Should Teach the Children

David Randall

Timothy Goeglein makes a strong moral and cultural case for teaching the “Great American Story.”

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July 17, 2023

Trans Antihumanism

David Randall

Adam Kirsch explains what “transhumanism” is.

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October 24, 2022

Conservatism: Which Way Forward?

David Randall

A review of "Conservatism: A Rediscovery," by Yoram Hazony, Regnery Gateway, 2022, pp. xxix + 445, $29.99 hardcover.

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October 24, 2022

Citizenship in Crisis

David Randall

Two prominent conservative critics offer incisive evaluations of what ails the American republic. But both also exhibit an embarrassed unwillingness to conceive of the American nation as something wor......

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August 23, 2021

A Plagiarism Schematic

David Randall

A review of Disguised Academic Plagiarism: A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors by M.V. Dougherty.

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June 7, 2021

How to Become Educated

David Randall

A review of "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" by Scott Newstok.

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