September 18, 2024
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Phyllis Chesler, Collin May, Richard Vedder, and others.
September 18, 2024
Readers respond to our symposium on the state of evolution and other articles from Academic Questions.
September 18, 2024
Transgender extremists and anti-Israel extremists have much in common. They both prize their narratives over and above the evidence of history, archeology, anthropology, geography—and far above......
September 18, 2024
One of the most recurrent themes in cancelation is the effort to obtain a statement of guilt or apology from the target as a means of holding the victim “accountable.” A surprisingly large......
September 18, 2024
The study of the humanities has much to gain from the acrimonious debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries between the Ancients—those who defended the primacy of knowledge in ant......
September 18, 2024
Richard Vedder believes that the crisis in American higher education and other contemporary social problems can be traced directly to the explosive growth of federal student loans since the mid-twenti......
September 18, 2024
The recent SFFA v. Harvard Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in college admissions crystallized the archaic racial views of affirmative action enthusiasts. In fact, writes la......
September 18, 2024
A recent tour of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, an exhibit about Vincent Van Gogh’s life and art in a variety of formats, may tell us more about our time and ourselves than about the a......
September 18, 2024
Philosopher F. Andrew Wolf Jr. insists that academic economists have been far more influenced by postmodernism (and its “cousin,” modern liberalism) than any self-respecting social science......
September 18, 2024
Fifty years ago, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a professional organization for writing professors, enacted a resolution titled “Students’ Right to Their O......
September 18, 2024
A little known 1940 film starring Margaret Sullavan, Jimmy Stewart, and Frank Morgan is perhaps Hollywood’s most successful attempt to dramatize the nature of antisemitism and the Nazi effort to......
September 18, 2024
Two books by celebrated scholars agree on the relationship between merit and inequality but come to wildly divergent conclusions. Journalist Adrian Wooldridge argues that meritocracy is fundamental to......
September 18, 2024
NAS research director David Randall looks at memoirs by two former presidents of elite universities, only to find self-congratulatory and unintended exposes of how these “confidence men,”......
September 18, 2024
Historian Jay A. Bergman introduces readers to famed Harvard historian Richard Pipes, “the most perceptive and productive historian of Russia and the Soviet Union of his generation.” Pipes......
September 18, 2024
Mac Donald has long been at the forefront of efforts to document how bad ideas spread and affect the public, a focus she continues in this volume. Here she demonstrates that racial, gender, and sexual......
September 18, 2024
NAS Director of Science Programs J. Scott Turner reviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci, in which Kennedy dissects the costly incompetence of our scientific health establish......
September 18, 2024
Randall also leads us through a reading of Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening, perhaps the most important treatment of the rise of woke ideology. Where Richard Hanania finds wokeism gestat......
September 18, 2024
In the “highly recommended” category is Anthony Esolen’s No Apologies. Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men, in which the learned and pugnacious scholar unapologetica......
September 18, 2024
Coleman Hughes’ The End of Race Politics, provides an extended defense of the colorblind society, which Shapiro calls a “persuasive and compelling counter to the New York Times&#......
September 18, 2024
Shapiro respects the diligence of Elizabeth M. Kalbfleisch in her Making the Radical University, where she marks the historical events leading to the leftward shift in the American academy over t......
