May 2, 2023
Article: A Conflict of Interests
Kali Jerrard
A look into the BDS movement’s hold on higher education and what must be done to curtail its influence.
April 18, 2023
Article: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Kali Jerrard
The sinister agenda of foreign influence in American higher education and what it means for our institutions, research integrity, and national security.
April 7, 2023
Article: Congress Asks Dept of Education to Enforce Foreign Gift Disclosure Laws
National Association of Scholars
The National Association of Scholars strongly endorses the Representatives' work to open the books on higher education's concealed dealings with the foreign despots who seek to subor......
March 24, 2023
MTC: PSU’s Confucius Institute 2.0: The Portland Institute, NJUPT
Ian Oxnevad
Portland State University (PSU) closed its Confucius Institute (CI) in January 2021, citing “a range of financial, staffing and operational reasons.” Thus it shuttered its China-backed language progra......
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 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......
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.
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.