June 15, 2009

The Paradox of Constitutional and Post-1965 Civil Rights

George Seaver

The Jeffersonian ideal clashes with the new concept of civil rights based on the diversity doctrine, "All groups are inherently different."

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June 14, 2009

Who Am I?

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood tries to distinguish himself from his namesakes.

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June 13, 2009

Is America Losing Its Innovative Edge?

Peter Wood

Is American innovation declining because we fail to send enough kids to college? A new report casts doubt on higher education's expansionist rationale.

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June 12, 2009

New Scholarship in Anthropology...No Comment

Peter Wood

Allah Made Us, Birth Models, Dancing from the Heart, Red Lights, With Shaking Hands

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June 11, 2009

Adopt a Mascot

Peter Wood

There are many orphaned college mascots who need a good home. Will you give them the love they need?

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June 8, 2009

For Shame!

Peter Wood

On the transformation of the idea of "shame" - and how the right kind of shame is seen as honorable. Especially on the college campus.

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June 5, 2009

Tapping the Bottle

Ashley Thorne

Achieving the Dream works for equity, not equality.

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June 4, 2009

NAS Pleased By Leach Nomination to NEH

Steve Balch

NAS comments on the nomination of James A. Leach to head the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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June 4, 2009

Exchange Counter

Peter Wood

Meet Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition uninterested in free exchange on campus.

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May 7, 2024

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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

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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

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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....

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June 5, 2024

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Subpoenas for All!

Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....

May 15, 2015

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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

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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?...