March 13, 2023
MTC: What Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter Can Teach Academia
Russell T. Warne
In October, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was finalized, and he quickly made changes to the social media service. Musk built his reputation as an innovator, first in online commerce and later with S......
February 3, 2023
Article: AP African American Studies Should Teach Black History, Not Activism
Peter WoodDavid Randall
The College Board's African American Studies should redesign its course to teach black history, not advocate arbitrary political activism.
January 10, 2023
Academic Questions: Free Society or Fear Society?
Carol Iannone
Past failures do not make our culture or history inherently awful, nor does today's affluence and unpresidented equality excuse the violence or modern forms of authoritarianism.
November 8, 2022
Article: U.S. Gives $2.9M to Universities That Promote Anti-West Ideologies
Adam Andrzejewski
NAS's report reveals that eleven Middle East Studies Centers at American universities funded by the U.S. government are pushing overtly anti-West ideologies.
November 5, 2022
MTC: Improving Higher Ed Through Better Open-Records Laws
Neetu Arnold and Ian Oxnevad
It is no secret that American higher education is in crisis due to a lack of affordability, growing irrelevance, and the ideological conformity that prevails in today’s classrooms. Less well-known is......
November 29, 2022
MTC: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woke?
Robert Weissberg
Following the antics on today’s college campuses undoubtedly invites mental illness. It’s not easy watching a speaker at an Ivy League school get shouted down with chants of “No KKK, no fascist USA” o......
October 11, 2022
Article: A Gulf in Our Middle East Studies
Marina Ziemnick
As long as America’s Middle East Studies Centers are more interested in advancing their ideological agenda than promoting meaningful scholarship, they are not deserving of our taxpayer dollars.
October 6, 2022
Media: Video: Hijacked
National Association of Scholars
Watch the launch event for our new report "Hijacked: The Capture of America's Middle East Studies Centers."
October 25, 2022
Article: A Blueprint for Higher Education Reform
Marina Ziemnick
If American higher education is to be reformed, the pressure must come from outside the institutions, not from within. NAS’s policy proposals will serve as a key tool in this project.
October 24, 2022
Academic Questions: China and Our Perfidious Elite
Glynn Custred
A review of "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win," by Peter Schweitzer, 2022, Harper, pp. 352, $16.99 hardbound.