April 18, 2011
A professor emeritus of economics makes a case for markets as the true path to future generations' prosperity.
April 15, 2011
Student press writers this week ponder the legality of military operations in Libya, the need for an undergraduate science requirement, why spending cuts are the key to economic recovery and the Oba......
April 15, 2011
Will reduced federal funding for Title VI foreign language study hurt national competence or help cut academic waste?
April 13, 2011
Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity project challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. simply must process more young people through college, saying that for many young people, there are bett......
April 13, 2011
Over at the leading libertarian magazine, Reason, writer Shikha Dalmia attacks conservatives for using FOIA laws to invade the privacy of historian William Cronon. At the same time, Dalmia defends O......
April 13, 2011
NAS joins a coalition of fifteen organizations to defend freedom of speech at Valdosta State University.
April 13, 2011
Peter Wood examines a new study of hiring biases that faculty members admit to holding.
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....