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Explore the debate and science of Sustainability.

May 25, 2022

The Climate Emergency, the Public Voice, and Nuclear Energy

William H. Young

Neither a turn to the past nor higher education’s present environmentalist fantasies are likely to provide the expansion of safe, cost-effective nuclear energy that the nation needs and desires.

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August 5, 2019

Peer Review: The Gold Standard?

Peter Wood

The peer review process, long considered the gold standard for academic publishing, is contributing to the irreproducibility crisis in modern science. Good research is being lumped in with the bad in......

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February 20, 2019

How Higher Education Incubated the Eco-Socialism of the Green New Deal

Rachelle Peterson

Sustainability is an ideology in which protecting the environment also concerns protecting society from dangers of any kind. But at what cost?

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August 10, 2017

Extinct Experiments

Peter Wood

NAS celebrates a victory as the Divestment Student Network closes. 

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December 19, 2016

Debating Scientific Epistemology

Edward R. Dougherty

Professor Dougherty discusses the dangers of modeling complex systems in response to Professors Gilley and Goldstein.

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October 6, 2016

No Regrets

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood reflects on laments and satisfaction in life. 

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June 2, 2016

Sustainability: The Left's New Facade

Rachelle Peterson

Rachelle Peterson discusses the greening of Oklahoma's universities.

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November 10, 2015

Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to Turn a Generation Against Fossil Fuels

Rachelle Peterson

A comprehensive account of the campus fossil fuel divestment movement.

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August 26, 2015

NAS on the Radio

National Association of Scholars

NAS president Peter Wood appeared on two radio programs this week to discuss campus trends in political correctness.

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