March 23, 2011
This week Neil Gross and his colleagues released two new studies analyzing clues as to why the majority of professors are politically liberal. They focus on graduate school. What sort of person goes t......
March 23, 2011
My former student Joshua, now ambivalently quartered at UC Santa Cruz (home of the fightin’ Banana Slugs and currently under Federal investigation for systemic anti-Semitism), has an a......
March 23, 2011
NAS is partnering with Intellectual Takeout to answer questions that call for scholarly judgment and can't be answered by Wikipedia.
March 23, 2011
In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Burck Smith, the entrepreneur behind StraighterLine, writes about the prospects for dramatic change through innovation in higher education. Innovation......
March 23, 2011
Peter Wood considers the academy's influence on public opinion regarding same-sex marriage and encourages more debate among scholars.
March 23, 2011
Anne Neal explains why students should not be thought of as customers, and how colleges must be held accountable for providing solid, affordable education.
March 22, 2011
How much of health care in the United States is funded by the government?
March 22, 2011
Richard Muller: "You're not allowed to do this in science. This is not up to our standards."
March 22, 2011
A 5th edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement.
March 21, 2011
At the Chronicle of Higher Education's Innovations blog, NAS president Peter Wood shares some insights about what has been lost in higher education: I refer to the slow disappearance of the se......
July 30, 2024
The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
June 20, 2024
Peter Wood writes on the passing of Warren Winiarski, a long-time supporter and friend of the National Association of Scholars, who sought to cultivate civilization and the liberal arts......
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....
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
September 18, 2024
FOIA requests found evidence of racial discrimination at the University of Washington. A professor now accuses the University of a cover-up. A leading scholar of "whiteness" is accus......
