David Randall

Director of Research, National Association of Scholars. David Randall can be reached at [email protected]

Articles

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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December 15, 2023

A Commitment to Intellectual Freedom

David Randall

If our fellow Americans forget their past, how will they know why or how to fight for liberty, in the republic and in the university?

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December 12, 2023

Harvard Corporation Betrays Harvard

David Randall

To those members of the Harvard Corporation who have disgraced Harvard University by retaining Claudine Gay, we repeat what Leo Amery said to Neville Chamberlain in May 1940, as the results of his cat......

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December 11, 2023

Claudine Gay Should Go

Peter Wood and David Randall

The National Association of Scholars calls on the Harvard Corporation to remove Claudine Gay from Harvard College’s presidency, for a myriad of reasons.

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November 16, 2023

The General Education Act

Stanley Kurtz, David Randall and Jenna Robinson

This new model state legislation seeks to reform the way general education requirements function, refocusing these required credits on reviving and sustaining classical liberal education on campus.

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October 31, 2023

Turning Our Universities Against Barbarism

David Randall

Our universities pose a terrible challenge to America. It is time to teach Western civilization because to convey that civilization is to teach our children not to embrace barbarism. It is to tea......

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October 26, 2023

Studies Departments Must Ditch Anti-Semitism

David Randall

Columbia’s illness is far deeper than one intemperate professor. Its institutions and culture should be reformed to root out every administrative tolerance for or complicity in Jew-hatred.

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October 26, 2023

Letter: Comment on Maine Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

The Draft Standards does a great disservice to the citizens, students, and teachers of Maine as it consists largely of education school jargon, heavily inflected by radical polemic.

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September 25, 2023

COVID-19 Made Clear That We Must Limit the Powers of Health Experts

David Randall

A recent CNN interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci made crystal clear that the “experts” who want Americans to mask up again for a new variant of COVID-19 don’t pay any attention to the e......

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August 2, 2023

A Symposium on Legacy Admissions: David Randall

David Randall

Legacy admissions is just a game of spot-the-sucker, argues David Randall in the latest istallment of the NAS's symposium.

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