June 30, 2011
Attorney David French argues that although these clinics aren't perfect, they nevertheless provide helpful experience for law school students.
June 29, 2011
In this Atlantic column, David Indiviglio argues that the "need" for college has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. He understands that for many students, the value in the degree is only positional,......
June 29, 2011
In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I take issue with the piece Kevin Carey had published in The New Republic several weeks ago. In essence, Carey’s argument is that college will......
June 29, 2011
Peter Wood concludes his three-part critique of the sustainability movement as a cultural phenomenon.
June 28, 2011
There are many more flaws in his article. Here’s another that really bothered me. One of the glaring weaknesses in the “College is good for everyone!” case is the mounting eviden......
June 28, 2011
So argues Professor Herbert London in this Minding the Campus essay. Starting from the earliest years, teachers (later professors) often pass along students who haven’t learned much just......
June 28, 2011
I suspect that there will be quite a few posts regarding David Leonhardt’s NYT hit piece on those of us who argue that we have oversold college and ought to stop promoting the notion that it&r......
June 28, 2011
My friend Arnold Kling takes issue with several points in Leonhardt’s piece, especially his supposition that when people with college degrees who do work that doesn’t call for academic t......
June 28, 2011
Testimony of CAS Chairman Charles Geshekter testimony before the California Senate education against SB 185, April 27, 2011.
June 28, 2011
Ed Whelan joins Andy Nash for a conversation on “judicial conservatism” and the state of law school education, civics, and the relationship between the law, Western Civilization, and the......
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....
