April 9, 2024

Event: Constitution Week Lesson Plans

National Association of Scholars

Join us for the launch of the Civics Alliance's newest high school initiative to further the preservation of liberty.

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April 9, 2024

Florida Restricts Foreign Researchers

Ian Oxnevad

Florida’s new law on researchers from hostile countries is unfortunately needed for national security.

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April 6, 2024

Doktorväter: A Memoir

Stefania R. Jha

It would be difficult to decide which of the five Doktorväter were most influential in my development as a scholar—they all contributed in various ways by their example of humanity, exactin......

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April 6, 2024

Stranger in a Strange Land

Forest Hansen

It wasn’t until I joined the faculty that I learned I was entering a somewhat foreign culture. I can best sum it up as “a culture of pretense.”

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April 2, 2024

In Pursuit of Liberty

Kali Jerrard

A new report by David Randall offers a path back to excellence for higher education.

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April 1, 2024

Can Florida Ban Chinese Academics from University Employment?

National Association of Scholars

We applaud the efforts of Florida lawmakers to address malign foreign influence on college campuses and the accompanying national security risks. But lawmakers must be narrow and precise when imposing......

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March 26, 2024

The FAFSA Fiasco

Kali Jerrard

FAFSA delays hurt college admissions rates as government is not held responsible.

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March 25, 2024

Now Is the Time to Oppose Biden’s Title IX Rule

Teresa R. Manning

The Biden administration's Title IX rule not only guts due process gains but again redefines terms—this time, redefining the term “sex” itself to include same-sex orientation and......

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March 25, 2024

What Should College Students Study?

David Randall

I offer Curriculum of Liberty keenly aware that it is only the latest of a great many sketches on how to redo higher education—many of them worthy, few of them influential. But the new......

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March 23, 2024

Misadventures of a Reluctant Student—A Whimsical Memoir

Nils A. Haug

Education. What does that really mean? Does it imply certain requirements such as a university degree or a high school certificate to succeed in life? What is it exactly that makes a person educated?

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June 6, 2024

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Backlash: Sometimes It Hurts So Good

We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going......

July 30, 2024

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Don’t Cry for Them, Academia

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......

August 6, 2024

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An Elephant Walks into Class

An assessment of the Republican higher education platform....

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May 15, 2015

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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....

October 12, 2010

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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 28, 2009

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"O Cosmic Birther!" The Lord's Prayer Meets the American College Textbook

A philosophy professor finds an Internet legend subbing for the Gospel truth and looks in vain for "critical reasoning."...