October 22, 2018

Registration is Open for "Disgrace: Shame, Punishment, and Redemption"

National Association of Scholars

Join NAS January 11 and 12 in Orange, California as we discuss disgrace in higher education.

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October 19, 2018

On Point with Peter Wood

National Association of Scholars

On Wednesday, NAS President Peter Wood spoke to NPR’s On Point’s Meghna Chakrabarti about the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

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October 17, 2018

Hamilton: An American Musical - Its National Influence as Art

William H. Young

William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical.

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October 12, 2018

Common Reading for Common Activism

David Randall

Common reading programs should be for exposing college students to excellent literature, not propaganda. 

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October 5, 2018

Hannah Arendt, Between Future and Past

Edward R. Dougherty

Hannah Arendt envisioned the collapse of Western civilization. Are we living through it? How near to truth was her prediction?

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October 4, 2018

Shedding Humanity, Shredding the Humanities

Anthony Esolen

An incident with a student provides the occasion for Anthony Esolen’s exposition of how identity politics has made humanities education nearly impossible and the “very notion of a common g......

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October 2, 2018

Beach Books: 2017-2018

National Association of Scholars

A summary of Beach Books and links to more info. 

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October 2, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Study Finds College Common Reading Programs Indoctrinate Students

National Association of Scholars

Beach Books 2017-2018 is the eighth installment of NAS's survey of common reading programs. 

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