June 30, 2009
A new organization, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, upholds reasoned inquiry and the pursuit of the truth.
June 29, 2009
What principles about racial discrimination can we take from the case of the firefighters in New Haven?
June 29, 2009
This interview appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Maladies" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3)
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.
June 26, 2009
Robert Jackson says the higher ed zoo needs a Great Conversation.
June 25, 2009
Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.
June 24, 2009
This year a UC Santa Barbara professor sent an email to his class, comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. But where did this professor's academic field, "critical globalization studies"......
June 23, 2009
Arizona puts a civil rights measure on the ballot for 2010. Alexander Hamilton comments.
June 21, 2009
Princeton's gracious campus expresses confidence in the life of the mind; UMass Amherst's Chancellor cries uncle; a New Jersey ghost town points its bony finger.
June 19, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a list of 114 private non-profit colleges that failed the Department
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
January 27, 2025
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a co......
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....
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
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?...
