August 5, 2011
Student journalists take some shots at Congress's debt deal, the medical uses of marijuana, the value of a liberal arts education and why you can't be strictly honest with your parents about......
August 5, 2011
NAS president Peter Wood ponders the difficulties of discussing climate change calmly and rationally.
August 4, 2011
Climate change, NAS president Peter Wood argues at his CHE blog, is not an easy subject to discuss calmly and rationally these days, especially in most academic precincts. Even the slightest dissent......
August 4, 2011
At a recent gathering of college students, Professor Jan Blits, NAS's Delaware affiliate head, urged students not to take liberty for granted.
August 3, 2011
Academic Questions author David French and his wife Nancy were interviewed on the 700 Club last month (8-minute video), discussing their new book, Here and Away, about their experiences during his t......
August 3, 2011
Jay Schalin writes about the phenomenon of entities that live off taxpayer money using some of that money to lobby for still more money. Specifically, he’s looking at the University of North C......
August 3, 2011
Historian John C. Chalberg reviews Andrew Ferguson's Crazy U, and concludes that the title has some merit.
August 3, 2011
William H. Young begins a new occasional series of articles focused on Western Civilization and current academic issues with a discussion of human nature.
August 2, 2011
Former NAS intern Adrianna Groth shares her list of most beloved books.
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....
