January 19, 2011
An astronomer settles a lawsuit with the University of Kentucky for religious discrimination.
January 19, 2011
NAS's California affiliate calls out UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau for his improper use of his position for political advocacy.
January 19, 2011
Video: NAS president Peter Wood talks about the risks of sending students to college at a time when they can be assured neither that they will learn much nor that they will be better positioned to sec......
January 19, 2011
Peter Wood contrasts the new sanitized version of Mark Twain’s masterpiece with the Yale University Press publication of a scholarly edition of rap lyrics.
January 18, 2011
The New York Times recently ran an article by Edward Rothstein ("To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display") about museum exhibitions that seek to vindicate certain groups' h......
January 18, 2011
So says this USA Today article, reporting on the findings of a recent book entitled Academically Adrift. No surprise here.
January 18, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Troy Camplin explains the benefits of giving students a seemingly outmoded and irrelevant writing assignment -- composing a sonnet.
January 18, 2011
Environmentalist ideology in the guise of sustainability is everywhere. It is pap. The words sustainability, conservation and conservatism are linked. They suggest protection of the status quo. Unti......
January 18, 2011
Stick to individual assignments, counsels Jason Fertig. Group work often produces shoddy results and unfair grades, and rarely does it create "synergy."
January 18, 2011
Continuing his series on for-profit colleges, Peter Wood sees an advantage in their pared-down offerings in the context of spiraling higher-education costs.
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The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
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Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
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Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
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A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
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The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
April 30, 2025
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 malfea......
