Peter Wood

November 20, 2024

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

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

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.

Academic Freedom

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.

In Memoriam

June 6, 2024

Backlash: Sometimes It Hurts So Good

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......

June 5, 2024

Subpoenas for All!

Peter Wood

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

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.

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......

December 11, 2023

Claudine Gay Should Go

Peter Wood and David Randall

The National Association of Scholars calls on the Harvard Corporation to remove Claudine Gay from Harvard College’s presidency, for a myriad of reasons.

December 9, 2023

The Presidents and Academic Freedom

Peter Wood

What are the boundaries of “free speech?” They are pretty much the same as the boundaries of civilization. Savages need not apply.

October 26, 2023

A Reckoning: How to Respond to Those Who Temporize with Terrorists

Peter Wood

The leaders of higher education in the United States must speak forthrightly in defense of civilization. If they don’t, then we must as a public lawfully liberate our campuses from foolish solid......

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Peter Wood and David Randall

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