Recent Articles

Donors Are Defunding Academia’s Anti-Semitism; Ending It Means Doing This

As financial pain mounts, stopping higher education from credentialing Jew-haters and funneling them into the workplace means making the pain matter.

NAS Welcomes Trump's Day One Executive Orders on Education

These executive orders promise ambitious and effective reform to rid American education of the many detrimental policy decisions that have accreted in the last years.

Press Release: House Passes Protecting Women’s Sports Act & Defines “Sex” as a Biological Reality at Birth

On Tuesday, January 14, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R. 26) by a vote of 219 to 203.

NAS Urges Congress to Target Universities in Order to Stop Technology Transfers to China

The National Association of Scholars applauds the vigilance of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in opposing subversion from China.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on November 3, 2024. It was translated into English by the Observatory before being edited to align with Mi......

Promoting Faith at Sarah Lawrence

A blog post recently appeared in my inbox from Frances Lee, the new interfaith chaplain at Sarah Lawrence College, reflecting on the challenges of the fall 2024 semester. That term was marked by viole......

Reports

Instagram the Intifada

This report maps the organization, leadership, and affiliations of America's largest pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas student organizations—Students for Justice in Palestine. 

Shifting Sands: Report IV

Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology examines the science underlying implicit bias theory. The report finds that many researchers and legislators believe policies based on this theory are harmful. M......

Shadows of Influence

Foreign funding of American universities remains an open secret. This report details the underreporting of foreign gifts to universities by analyzing a complementary database compiled using public rec......

China and Our Children

This report examines how the Chinese Communist Party uses language as a tool of asymmetric warfare and its deployed effects in the United States. Confucius Classrooms did not only expand from Confuciu......

CounterCurrent


January 21, 2025

Donors Are Defunding Academia’s Anti-Semitism; Ending It Means Doing This

As financial pain mounts, stopping higher education from credentialing Jew-haters and funneling them into the workplace means making the pain matter....

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January 14, 2025

A Budget and Business Forecast

In the face of budget strain, business, politics, and opposition, higher education must adapt with market conditions....

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January 7, 2025

America’s Education and the Uncomfortable H-1B Visa Debate of 2025

The role of universities is conspicuously absent from debate over the H-1B program....

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Statements

NAS Welcomes Trump's Day One Executive Orders on Education

These executive orders promise ambitious and effective reform to rid American education of the many detrimental policy decisions that have accreted in the last years.

NAS Urges Congress to Target Universities in Order to Stop Technology Transfers to China

The National Association of Scholars applauds the vigilance of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in opposing subversion from China.

Press Releases

Press Release: House Passes Protecting Women’s Sports Act & Defines “Sex” as a Biological Reality at Birth

On Tuesday, January 14, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R. 26) by a vote of 219 to 203.

Press Release: Kentucky Court Blocks Biden Title IX Rule Nationwide

In a sweeping opinion that applies throughout the country, a federal court in Kentucky has stopped the new, bad Biden Title IX Rule from taking effect anywhere, finding it both unl......

Events

Event: Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology

Join the National Association of Scholars for the launch of the fourth and final report in the Shifting Sands project: Keeping Count of Government Science: Zombie Psychology, Implicit Bias Theory......

Event: Constitution Day Symposium

An exploration of the anti-Constitutional ideas that have seized American higher education, and what can be done about them.