March 11, 2010
Remember Sex Week at Yale last month? I know it's over until next year, but take heart: Princeton is apparently maintaining Ivy League standards with a talk on pornography by a real pro -"femini......
March 11, 2010
Today's Wall Street Journal has a letter from Rep. John Garamendi (D - CA) who says that he's siding with the protesting students because raising tuition is "bad economics." Why is it bad to......
March 11, 2010
Are you mad as hell and not going to take it anymore? Maybe you should reconsider, says NAS president Peter Wood.
March 11, 2010
Since the 1971 Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power Company, employers have been held liable for using hiring tests on which minorities perform worse than non-minorities. The liability may become g......
March 11, 2010
Nussbaum’s apparent defense of the liberal arts turns out to be just another rallying cry for diversity and socialism. But the liberal arts should give citizens the knowledge to understand the w......
March 10, 2010
Cross posted from www.NAS.org NAS members, have you been getting your issues of Academic Questions on time? We have received some complaints from members who did not get issues or who have receiv......
March 10, 2010
At the Pope Center, Jay Schalin has a great article listing 10 discredited ideas propagated by colleges and universities. He says academics "tend to live in a theoretical universe, while......
March 10, 2010
The health care bill isn't the only government takeover Obama is seeking to pass through "reconciliation." He's also looking to take control of the student loan industry.
March 10, 2010
Do we really want to do to higher education what we have to K-12 education? We might achieve the hollow boast of the most college-credentialed citizenry in the world who also happen to be among the......
March 10, 2010
NAS responds to accusations leveled at our article on Al Gore and global warming science.
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....
