April 29, 2015

Pope Francis Discusses Sustainable Development

Rachelle Peterson

Scientists and theologians weigh in on a summit at the Vatican. 

Continue Reading

April 27, 2015

NAS Sustainability Report Continues to Garner Coverage

National Association of Scholars

An update on what other people are saying about Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism. 

Continue Reading

April 27, 2015

Good Citizens Are ‘Inclusive’ and Take Shorter Showers, Colleges Say

Ashley Thorne

Forget checks and balances, or popular sovereignty: citizenship education has morphed into environmental propaganda.

Continue Reading

April 24, 2015

“Teachers Cannot Teach What They Do Not Know”

Mary Grabar

City Journal reviews NAS board member Sandra Stotsky's book on "improving American educational standards."

Continue Reading

April 24, 2015

NAS President's Article On Weekly Standard Cover

National Association of Scholars

NAS president Peter Wood's article titled "The Meaning of Sex" appears on the cover of the May 4, 2015 issue of The Weekly Standard.

Continue Reading

April 24, 2015

Majoring in Anthro

April 23, 2015

Resurfacing Sustainability in AQ

National Association of Scholars

In 2010, we devoted an issue of Academic Questions to the topic of sustainability. 

Continue Reading

April 22, 2015

Earth Day, 2015

Peter Wood

The earth is in better shape than it has been for many years. Let's celebrate the human innovation that made this possible. 

Continue Reading

April 22, 2015

George Will Speaks on NAS's Sustainability Report

National Association of Scholars

At the William F. Buckley Society's "Disinvitation Dinner," George Will discussed the soft totalitarianism that the campus sustainability movement fosters.

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?...

September 21, 2010

3.

Ask a Scholar: What Does YHWH Elohim Mean?

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....