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April 30, 2025

In Memoriam: David Horowitz

Peter Wood

We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfeasance on b......

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April 29, 2025

The Nihilism of Beijing’s New York Climate Radicals

Ian Oxnevad

The People’s Forum, a Chinese Communist Party affiliated organization responsible for much of the anti-Semitic activism at Columbia University, is mobilizing its useful idiots to......

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April 28, 2025

Bright Spots Do Exist in American Higher Education—Are They the Future?

Teresa R. Manning

Four small colleges reject woke orthodoxy, student debt, and federal strings—offering faith, grit, and classical learning as a bold alternative in higher ed.

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April 26, 2025

Trump Issues Executive Orders on Accreditation and Foreign Influence

Teresa R. Manning

President Trump has issued a flurry of education-related Executive Orders this month. Two are on issues of concern for the National Association of Scholars: accreditation reform and foreign influence......

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April 23, 2025

NAS Endorses Arkansas House Bill 1696

National Association of Scholars

Arkansas HB 1696 establishes the principle that a state university should have a core curriculum. Arkansas will join the state leaders of education reform in America when it passes this bill.

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