September 6, 2011
The trouble is, on most college campuses, there is no debate. Students hear over and over that it is "settled" and thus anyone who doubts that humans are responsible for potentially disastrous clima......
September 6, 2011
Richard Shavelson joins Andy Nash for a conversation on measurements and metrics in figuring out the quality of an education.
September 3, 2011
Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly compendium on the relationship beteen Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It's a controversial topic, of course, but I'm beginning to wonder if th......
September 2, 2011
The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases: expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......
September 2, 2011
Student reporters get the Fall semester rolling with observations on the national debt crisis, same-sex marriage, the vocation of college journalists and how to spend your summer break.
September 2, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood offers observations on the diminishing value of a college degree.
September 1, 2011
William H. Young examines the present dysfunctional state of the family in light of its traditional role in Western Civilization.
August 31, 2011
Thomas Bertonneau discusses the reasons why course syllabi have been mushrooming over the years: students are less and less accustomed to academic work, more inclined to complain if things aren'......
August 31, 2011
Peter Wood fears that a new proposal for improving science education will lead to even greater math illiteracy among high school graduates.
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
May 15, 2015
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....
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
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......