May 1, 2014

Presidential Searches

National Association of Scholars

PRESS RELEASE: Commitment to "Intellectual Diversity" top choice for new college presidents, says NAS.

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April 30, 2014

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MOOC

David Clemens

The MOOC provides a platform for education about Western Civilization.

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April 30, 2014

Why Do Most College Students Think the Same Thoughts?

Peter Wood

On many topics—racial preferences, sustainability, gay marriage, world citizenship, patriarchy, harassment, sexual freedom—there is room on campus for only one opinion.

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April 30, 2014

Where do preferential policies stand now?

George Leef

"It is no longer the case that Jim Crow–advantaged whites are being displaced by just-liberated African-Americans. Indeed, it is more and more the case that preferences are used to give an advan......

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April 29, 2014

Godzilla vs. Godot

Peter Wood

Godzilla and Godot have more in common than a first syllable. They are the two opposing faces of despair: a god that is pure wrath and a god that never shows up.

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April 29, 2014

Peter Wood Made Regular Contributor to Huffington Post

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood will write regularly on higher education and intellectual culture. We encourage readers to visit his author page to engage with his work. 

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April 28, 2014

High Art Deserves a High Place in Higher Education

Peter Wood

Will the fine arts ever feel like native inhabitants of the university, or will they always be little guests?

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April 24, 2014

Social Scientists Vs. Climate Change

Rachelle Peterson

Rachelle DeJong live-blogs a two-day conference at The New School on how to get people to live "greener" lives.

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April 23, 2014

Unpersuasive book argues that higher education should have a leftist bias

George Leef

"It reminds me of Don Quixote. Lazere wants his friends to see how gloriously he jousts with and punctures all those horrible right-wingers. But Cervantes’s novel is entertaining; the pages of t......

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April 23, 2014

Dartmouth’s Freedom Budget: Peaceful Protest, or Intolerant Tolerance?

Marilee Turscak

Dartmouth president Philip Hanlon hopes to tame the tempers of Freedom Budget activists, but it remains to be seen whether he can truly transform the college.

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In Memoriam: David Horowitz

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......