March 12, 2020

Senator Chuck Grassley Issues Stern Warning About Confucius Institutes

National Association of Scholars

In a letter to 77 colleges and universities, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley urges higher ed presidents to reconsider their support of Confucius Institutes.

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March 11, 2020

What Rush Limbaugh Has Done For America

Wight Martindale Jr.

A discussion of the New Left’s hypocrisy, particularly concerning the nexus of higher education, wealth, and class.

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March 10, 2020

The New York Times Won't Engage with 1619 Detractors

David Acevedo

The New York Times' 1619 Project claims to “recast all of American history.” Why won't its writers discuss with historians?

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March 9, 2020

On Faculty Union Bans

Peter Wood

South Dakota has just become the fourth state to ban faculty unions at public universities, joining Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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March 6, 2020

Donors Should Abandon Their Ivy League Alma Maters

Amy L. Wax

These schools serve only a fraction of Americans, but they raise $44B a year through endowments and guzzle mightily from the federal trough.

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March 3, 2020

NAS Applauds the Foreign Influence Transparency Act

National Association of Scholars

The Senate has reintroduced a bill to strengthen transparency requirements for colleges and universities receiving donations from foreign sources.

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March 3, 2020

Trump Proposes New Student Debt Regulations

David Acevedo

President Trump recently unveiled his 2021 budget proposal, which contains a number of regulations designed to curb the student debt crisis.

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March 3, 2020

Excluding Experts

National Association of Scholars

Nikole Hannah-Jones ought to step up, be courageous, and debate the historians with whom she disagrees, argues Peter Wood in a recent essay.

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March 2, 2020

Arizona House Passes Intellectual Diversity Legislation

National Association of Scholars

HB 2238 passed in the Arizona House of Representatives after being introduced just three weeks prior. It is now the first campus intellectual diversity bill to advance in a state legislature.

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February 28, 2020

Episode #50: The Partisan Professoriate with Mitchell Langbert

Peter Wood

Peter Wood and Mitchell Langbert explore recent research on the political affiliations of university professors and also the internal contradictions of John Dewey's progressive education.......

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A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....