April 17, 2017

Under the Ivy

Peter Wood

Ivy League universities picked up $41.59 billion in taxpayer-funded payments. How do these universities spend their share of the public purse? 

Continue Reading

April 11, 2017

Fixing our Foundation: Comments on Education Reform

National Association of Scholars

Ginni Thomas interviews NAS President Peter Wood for the Daily Caller, discussing the need for higher education reform and Wood's proposal for a blue-ribbon comission on American ex......

Continue Reading

April 11, 2017

The Case for Income Share Agreements

David Randall

An alternative to student loans, ISAs allow for private investors to pay a student's tuition for returns in future income.

Continue Reading

April 10, 2017

How Canon Change Should Happen

Carol Iannone

Carol Iannone argues for the traditional method of canon formation.

Continue Reading

April 5, 2017

Disinvited, Re-invited, Still Slighted

Rachelle Peterson

Virginia Tech staged a public putdown of Jason Riley's BB&T Distinguished Lecture.

Continue Reading

March 29, 2017

Springfield College Tries to Oust Professor For Teaching 'Men in Literature'

National Association of Scholars

NAS President Peter Wood argues for intellectual freedom's necessity at Springfield College.

Continue Reading

March 27, 2017

Modern versus Western Thought: Adolescence over Adulthood

William H. Young

William Young examines the development of the "youth culture" which first emerged among 1950's high school students.

Continue Reading

March 24, 2017

Representative Grothman Addresses Pell Grant Fraud

David Randall

Congress should reform the Pell Grant program and prevent fraud. 

Continue Reading

Most Commented

May 7, 2024

1.

Creating Students, Not Activists

The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......

March 9, 2024

2.

A Portrait of Claireve Grandjouan

Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....

April 20, 2024

3.

The Academic's Roadmap

By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....

Most Read

May 15, 2015

1.

Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

October 12, 2010

2.

Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...

June 5, 2024

3.

Subpoenas for All!

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