October 3, 2019

'Secret Science' Rule Delayed Until Next Year

David Randall

Last month the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency announce that the proposed rule "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" would not be finalized before 2020. This......

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October 3, 2019

Episode #39: Burdens of Freedom with Larry Mead

Peter Wood

What’s the chief threat to American leadership today? Larry Mead, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University, argues that it is the decline of individualism.

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October 3, 2019

Scholars Disappointed by Decision Upholding Harvard Discrimination

National Association of Scholars

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts upholds racial discrimination in admissions by Harvard University. 

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October 2, 2019

Testing Threatens "Civic Education"

David Randall

New Civics finds an enemy in standardized testing. It turns out, explains David Randall, that tests require extensive factual knowledge. The sort of knowledge that only comes from in-class education a......

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October 1, 2019

This Did Not Happen, as Well as Things That Did

John Cussen

A campus fiction about a Catholic professor's encounters with the politics of promotion in academia. 

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October 1, 2019

Napoleon Chagnon, Anthropologist, Dies at 81

National Association of Scholars

Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose extensive field research created a classic in anthropology but also drew sharp criticism from his peers, has passed away. In memory, we republish......

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September 30, 2019

Fixing Science

National Association of Scholars

Join the National Association of Scholars and the Independent Institute as we bring together scientists, academics, government officials, and philanthropists to discuss practical ways to fix how scien......

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September 30, 2019

Was it Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?

Bruce Gilley

Professor Gilley examines the state of slavery in Africa and throughout the British Empire at the now infamous date of 1619. 

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September 26, 2019

Campus Hook-Up Culture and Title IX Sex Police Meet Due Process

Teresa R. Manning

More and more students are suing their schools after being wrongly expelled after a Title IX investigation. 

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September 26, 2019

Curriculum Vitae Season 2: Beach Books

Peter Wood

We are back to our podcast, Curriculum Vitae, now returning from summer break! We’re not quite ready to leave summer, though, because in this episode, Peter Wood and David Randall sit down to di......

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