September 9, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Anthem and the Joy of Pursuing Knowledge

Joshua Daniel Phillips

Dr. Joshua Daniel Phillips, author of 1,800 Miles: Striving to End Sexual Violence, One Step at a Time, distinguishes between Ayn Rand's Anthem and contemporary dystopian literature......

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September 8, 2014

Academic Social Science and Governance

William H. Young

William Young returns to evaluate the influence of the social sciences on public choice.

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September 8, 2014

Win Two Free Tickets to the NAS’s Screening of Ivory Tower in New York City!

National Association of Scholars

NAS is hosting a Twitter contest and giving away 10 free tickets to our exclusive New York City screening of Ivory Tower.

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September 8, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Joan and Peter by H. G. Wells

Adam Kissel

"Oswald’s concern—Wells’s, too—is that a fully unregulated marketplace of ideas, the open curriculum, if you will, has no telos."

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September 5, 2014

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Peter Wood

"[PTSS] provides an evidence-proof explanation that lifts away moral responsibility from those engaged in self-destructive, anti-social, and criminal behavior."

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August 29, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Le Rouge et le Noir and French History

David Kaiser

Author and historian David Kaiser reviews Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir.

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August 28, 2014

Campus Energy Divestment: A Mistaken Legacy of the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Caleb Rossiter

"Divestment will again harm Africans, but this time to no good end." Dr. Caleb Rossiter, an adjunct professor at American University, weighs in.

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August 27, 2014

Why Conservatives are Up in Arms About the College Board's AP History Course

Peter Wood

"We are told that the course is the work of scholars whose only agenda was to create a good course. This doesn’t ring true."

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August 27, 2014

The Collision Between Academic Freedom and Freedom of Contract: the Salaita Case

George Leef

George Leef offers his perspective on whether a university should have the freedom to decline to employ those who seem more interested in espousing political beliefs than in teaching.

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August 27, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: What's New and What's True

F.R. Duplantier

Political author F.R. Duplantier reviews Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

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10 Reasons Not to Go to College

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