Recent Articles

Trump, Title IX and 2025: Restore Real Learning; Stop Fringe Sexual Politics

Title IX's original intent to ensure equality in education has been overshadowed by ideological overreach, turning schools into battlegrounds for identity politics.

Cheers to the New Year

A few things education reformers should keep in mind for 2025.

NAS Welcomes Nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Lead NIH

The National Association of Scholars welcomes the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, pending Congressional approval. 

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from NAS

To finding the light in the darkness this holiday season.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

A Reflection on Violence in College Sports

The rivalry between the University of Michigan (Michigan) and Ohio State is among the most intense and storied in college football, but the last game of the 2024 season was particularly violent. It es......

Sedition U: Marxist Ideology Threatens American Democracy from Campus to Culture

The First Amendment’s free speech protections and “academic freedom” at colleges and universities are pillars of American democracy. But knowledgeable observers long have recognized that subversives,......

Reports

Instagram the Intifada

This report maps the organization, leadership, and affiliations of America's largest pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas student organizations—Students for Justice in Palestine. 

Shifting Sands: Report IV

Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology examines the science underlying implicit bias theory. The report finds that many researchers and legislators believe policies based on this theory are harmful. M......

Shadows of Influence

Foreign funding of American universities remains an open secret. This report details the underreporting of foreign gifts to universities by analyzing a complementary database compiled using public rec......

China and Our Children

This report examines how the Chinese Communist Party uses language as a tool of asymmetric warfare and its deployed effects in the United States. Confucius Classrooms did not only expand from Confuciu......

CounterCurrent


December 31, 2024

Cheers to the New Year

A few things education reformers should keep in mind for 2025....

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December 17, 2024

The House is Right: Communism Has No Place in American Schools

Eliminating the neutral teaching of Communism from American schools is a needed step to repair the country’s moral compass....

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December 10, 2024

The Biden Administration’s Higher-Ed Legacy

Over the last four years, the Biden administration not only turned a blind eye to anti-Semitism on college campuses but refocused its efforts on persecuting Christian universities....

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Statements

NAS Welcomes Reintroduction of Ohio SB 83

SB 83 will do an extraordinary amount to depoliticize Ohio’s public higher education system, strengthen intellectual diversity, and restore its accountability to Ohio policymakers and citizens.&......

NAS Applauds the Passage of HR 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act

HR 5349 is a step in the right direction. The bill will ensure that students know about the tyrannical nature of Communist thought, the blood-stained history of Communist regimes, and the in......

Press Releases

Press Release: Report Finds Activism Guides Implicit Bias Theory

New report finds compelling evidence that the IAT does not appear to measure implicit bias accurately or reliably.

Report: Billions in Foreign Gifts to American Universities Go Unreported

A new report finds that American universities rarely disclose, if at all, gifts from foreign governments and organizations. Without enforcement, colleges and universities slip transparency and fiducia......

Events

Event: Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology

Join the National Association of Scholars for the launch of the fourth and final report in the Shifting Sands project: Keeping Count of Government Science: Zombie Psychology, Implicit Bias Theory......

Event: Constitution Day Symposium

An exploration of the anti-Constitutional ideas that have seized American higher education, and what can be done about them.