August 3, 2015
In this preliminary response to the new version of AP U.S. history released July 30 by the College Board, historian Larry Schweikart critiques the wording of a number of sections.
July 31, 2015
University common reading programs fail to show students the value of learning from the past.
July 31, 2015
A University of New Hamphsire guide to "bias-free language" is more concerned with words than with what really matters.
July 28, 2015
William Young examines the social sciences' shift of focus from the individual to the group.
July 23, 2015
George Leef dicusses the dubious effects and soaring costs of federal intervention in higher education.
July 22, 2015
A new article on college summer reading programs agrees with NAS's findings: fiction, classics, and books older than the students are extremely rare.
July 14, 2015
Professor Russell Eisenman argues that tenure is a necessary safeguard for professors.
July 13, 2015
Prominent sustainability activist Bill McKibben offers some answers to questions posed by NAS.
May 7, 2024
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
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
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....
May 15, 2015
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
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?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
