October 26, 2011
This week’s Pope Center Clarion Call is by Ed Jones of Belmont Abbey College and it’s about his school’s new (but really old) core curriculum. It stresses the importance of fundame......
October 26, 2011
Yale's med school is jumping aboard the bandwagon for increasing diversity in its student body, aiming to include more LGBT students. I can't see how aiming at quotas (or "goals" or some oth......
October 26, 2011
Is our economy vulnerable to the Keynesian phenomenon known as the "liquidity trap"?
October 26, 2011
The actions of the Occupy Wall Street protesters do not help refute the notion that Millennials are the Peter Pan Generation.
October 26, 2011
College grads protesting their student-loan burden would do better to protest the quality of their college programs, writes Peter Wood.
October 25, 2011
That's the message that incoming male freshmen frequently get when they arrive on campus these days, which Warren Farrell elaborates over at Minding the Campus. Despite steadily declining enroll......
October 25, 2011
Writing on this Christian Science Monitor blog, Rhodes College economics professor Art Carden argues that while the protesters made some valid points (unwittingly, I'd say), they are on very thi......
October 24, 2011
Like many other academic disciplines, Political Science is ideologically lopsided, and you find the same left-oriented political homogeniety that dominates the academy in general: a very high concen......
October 24, 2011
NAS is a "friend of the court" in what could be a landmark case on the diversity rationale for racial preferences in college admissions.
October 24, 2011
What really happened during the student protest against the findings of the Center for Equal Opportunity? W. Lee Hansen, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison, documents what he observe......
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
May 15, 2015
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....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
