January 20, 2010
NBC: Yale President Responds to T-Shirt Controversy "I think of all Harvard men as sissies" from F. Scott Fitzgerald's book This Side of Paradise (which I'm currently reading) was deemed off......
January 20, 2010
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I review the new book by Rutgers sociology professor Jackson Toby, The Lowering of Higher Education in America. Toby makes much the same case I have -- w......
January 20, 2010
NAS's Glenn Ricketts traces the history of the sustainability movement, now dominant as a campus ideology, in a major article that will appear in a forthcoming sustainability-themed issue of our......
January 20, 2010
Having just returned from a Foresight Institute conference on “The Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI,” I am struck by the educational implications of what I heard about transfor......
January 20, 2010
A new study concludes that a stereotype keeps conservatives from becoming professors.
January 19, 2010
I was pleased to read this posting in The Lawyerist, entitled Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer. This is so true, in my opinion, but it's self-serving when coming from the academy. ......
January 19, 2010
In yesterday's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin takes a look at programs in the UNC system that aim at taking the weakest of the incoming students and giving them remedial work in basic math and E......
January 18, 2010
Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers, long a thorn in the side of academic feminism and Women's Studies, is no doubt going to anger them again with her recent posting about the absence of women in......
January 15, 2010
1. The National Association of Scholars has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Together with the Pacific Legal Foundation, the American&n......
January 15, 2010
In this Pope Center piece, Professor Anthony Papalas of East Carolina University writes about an absurd lecture given last November at ECU by Gloria Steinem. She was paid ten grand for an ill-inform......
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....
