Recent Articles

The Grown Ups are Back: On Gender, Trump Replaces Confusion and Chaos with Clarity and Common Sense

With this administration, the grown ups are back: Trump is replacing confusion and chaos with clarity and common sense—not just for women’s sports but also for America.

Taming the Education Leviathan

A new report by NAS details the inner workings of the Department of Education, its failures, and a potential path forward through reform.

VIDEO: Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism

Join the National Association of Scholars for the launch of our new report, exposing the Education Department and detailing a path forward.

Press Release: Scholars Publish Plan to Fix Education Department

America’s citizenry supports the reform of ED, but not its elimination.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it is cutting indirect costs to a maximum of 15 percent. What should we make of this effort? Let’s begin by asking a simple question: what are......

Oh, Those Pesky Americans

Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. This particular edition was sent on September 19, 2024. It is crossposted here in obser......

Reports

Waste Land

This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term politi......

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......

CounterCurrent


February 11, 2025

Taming the Education Leviathan

A new report by NAS details the inner workings of the Department of Education, its failures, and a potential path forward through reform....

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February 4, 2025

Common Sense Returns to Government Education Policy

Title IX sanity restored by Trump Education Department....

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January 28, 2025

Trump’s Blitz on DEI

Highlighting education-focused executive orders, efforts by the Department of Education to dissolve DEI measures, and the latest story of DEI gone wild....

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Statements

Rooting Out Race-Based Discrimination

A statement on President Trump's Executive Order, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."

NAS Welcomes Introduction of Ohio SB 1

The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance welcome the introduction of Senate Bill 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, by Ohio State Senator Jerry Cirino.

Press Releases

Press Release: Scholars Publish Plan to Fix Education Department

America’s citizenry supports the reform of ED, but not its elimination.

Press Release: Trump Protects Due Process and Restores Sanity to Title IX

On Friday, Trump’s Education Department officially returned to the 2020 Title IX Rule, aligning the Education Department with federal court rulings that found the 2024 Biden Title......

Events

Event: Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism

Join the National Association of Scholars for the launch of our new report, exposing the Education Department and detailing a path forward.

Event: A New Edition of an Ancient Hate

Join the National Association of Scholars for a disccusion with Ernest Sternberg on the New Anti-Semitism.