January 3, 2018

Reading The Age of Jackson in the Age of Trump

National Association of Scholars

NAS Staff members read and comment on Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson.

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December 21, 2017

Modern vs. Western Thought: The Return of Bacon's Idols

William H. Young

William Young examines the return of idols which Francis Bacon had sought to banish

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December 20, 2017

Does Trump Threaten Science?

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood critiques a polemic by the American Association of University Professors.

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December 18, 2017

Victoria Coates Is Keynote Speaker at February NAS Conference

National Association of Scholars

Victoria C. G. Coates, author of David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art, will give the dinner keynote address at NAS's conference in Phoenix, "What Is Western Civi......

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December 18, 2017

Higher Education's Deeper Sickness

John M. Ellis

John Ellis argues for measures that would increase intellectual diversity and reduce politicization in colleges. 

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December 14, 2017

NAS Statement on the Michigan Campus Free Speech Act

National Association of Scholars

PRESS RELEASE: NAS endorses the efforts of the Michigan Legislature to preserve free speech on college campuses. 

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December 13, 2017

VIDEO: The Anti-American Bias of American Higher Education

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood discusses the anti-American bias in Higher Education. 

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December 13, 2017

Societal Threats from Ideologically Driven Science

Edward J. Calabrese

Personal bias has gotten in the way of good science. 

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December 12, 2017

Dreaming of a Black Christmas

Dion J. Pierre

UCLA Prof. Melina Abdullah recently called for a "Black Christmas" as a protest against capitalism. This idea is nothing new. 

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December 7, 2017

A Famous Victory

National Association of Scholars

NAS Director of Communications David Randall criticizes the AP European History exam at The Claremont Review of Books.

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