April 30, 2014
The MOOC provides a platform for education about Western Civilization.
April 30, 2014
On many topics—racial preferences, sustainability, gay marriage, world citizenship, patriarchy, harassment, sexual freedom—there is room on campus for only one opinion.
April 30, 2014
"It is no longer the case that Jim Crow–advantaged whites are being displaced by just-liberated African-Americans. Indeed, it is more and more the case that preferences are used to give an advan......
April 29, 2014
Godzilla and Godot have more in common than a first syllable. They are the two opposing faces of despair: a god that is pure wrath and a god that never shows up.
April 29, 2014
Peter Wood will write regularly on higher education and intellectual culture. We encourage readers to visit his author page to engage with his work.
April 28, 2014
Will the fine arts ever feel like native inhabitants of the university, or will they always be little guests?
April 24, 2014
Rachelle DeJong live-blogs a two-day conference at The New School on how to get people to live "greener" lives.
April 23, 2014
"It reminds me of Don Quixote. Lazere wants his friends to see how gloriously he jousts with and punctures all those horrible right-wingers. But Cervantes’s novel is entertaining; the pages of t......
April 23, 2014
Dartmouth president Philip Hanlon hopes to tame the tempers of Freedom Budget activists, but it remains to be seen whether he can truly transform the college.
April 22, 2014
PRESS RELEASE: NAS praises the Court's decision to sustain a measure against racial discrimination in college admissions.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....