Peter Wood

President, National Association of Scholars. Dr. Wood can be reached at [email protected].

Articles

April 15, 2025

Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords

Peter Wood

The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice but to figh......

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March 31, 2025

Keeping Watch

Peter Wood

Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough.

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January 29, 2025

Rooting Out Race-Based Discrimination

Peter Wood

A statement on President Trump's Executive Order, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."

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November 20, 2024

NAS Welcomes Administrator McMahon's Nomination to Serve as Education Secretary

Peter Wood

With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department.

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September 25, 2024

NAS Statement on University of Pennsylvania Sanction of Amy Wax

Peter Wood

The National Association of Scholars is outraged—but not surprised—by Penn's decision to penalize Wax for exercising her academic freedom. 

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August 22, 2024

National Association of Scholars Mourns the Loss of Adam Andrzejewski

Peter Wood

The National Association of Scholars mourns the loss of Adam Andrzejewski, the visionary Founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.

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June 6, 2024

Backlash: Sometimes It Hurts So Good

Peter Wood

We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going to hand yo......

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June 5, 2024

Subpoenas for All!

Peter Wood

Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare.

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April 25, 2024

Letter: Comment on West Virginia Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

These Standards require substantial improvement—and that this improvement should be conducted by recruiting an independent commission to redraft new social studies standards.

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January 24, 2024

After Claudine

Peter Wood

The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the academic le......

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