Steve Balch

Chairman, National Association of Scholars

Academic Questions

February 28, 2024

Carol Iannone (1948-2023)

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Steven Balch looks back at the career of a treasured colleague.

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July 22, 2022

No Midge, No NAS: A Tribute to Midge Decter

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Among the many intellectual luminaries who helped birth the National Association of Scholars, Midge Decter was “The One.”

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December 27, 2021

Donald Kagan: A Citizen Scholar

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Steve Balch remembers Donald Kagan, a scholar and academic leader, and one of higher education’s most noble citizens.

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September 30, 2020

What is Affirmative Action?

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A review of The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today, Melvin I. Urofsky, Pantheon, 2020, pp. 592, $22.68 hardcover.

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July 2, 2020

Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019)

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Gertrude Himmelfarb’s life may have ended, but her work will continue to inspire and awaken those in dogmatic slumber.

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December 16, 2015

Scholar and Academic Citizen

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Founding NAS President Stephen H. Balch writes an appreciation of Stanley Rothman's career and life as a doughty battler against the modern deformation of the academy.

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March 30, 2012

Metamorphosis

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NAS board chairman Steve Balch argues that American students must study Western civilization to understand the epochal way in which it has transformed the human condition. This article appeared in the......

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March 23, 2012

Irving Louis Horowitz: A Force of Nature

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Irving Louis Horowitz, who for decades was publisher, advisor, and contributor to Academic Questions died on March 21st. NAS chairman Steve Balch remembers him.  

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