January 18, 2010
Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers, long a thorn in the side of academic feminism and Women's Studies, is no doubt going to anger them again with her recent posting about the absence of women in......
January 15, 2010
1. The National Association of Scholars has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Together with the Pacific Legal Foundation, the American&n......
January 15, 2010
In this Pope Center piece, Professor Anthony Papalas of East Carolina University writes about an absurd lecture given last November at ECU by Gloria Steinem. She was paid ten grand for an ill-inform......
January 15, 2010
The NAS has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
January 14, 2010
News Busters, the blog of the Media Research Center, reports that the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) has stated that Michael Mann, a Penn State climatological researcher involved......
January 14, 2010
Over at Democracy Project, Winfield Myers illustrates anew how intellectually unsound many of our campuses have become by spotlighting the nihilistic Weltanschauung of Andrew March, a young politica......
January 14, 2010
From Division of Labour, via Phi Beta Cons: At UNC-Chapel Hill one can earn a minor in social and economic justice without taking an economics course. See for yourself here (scroll down)......
January 14, 2010
A review of a new book about the Voting Rights Act by NAS Board of Advisors member Abigail Thernstrom.
January 13, 2010
From Minding the Campus: It is personally unfair, passes over better qualified students, and sets a disturbing legal, political, and moral precedent in allowing racial discrimination; it creates r......
January 13, 2010
I always thought of utilitarianism as a somewhat capitalistic hence individualistic philosophy. I seem to remember reading John Stuart Mill's On Liberty in college and passages about the r......
February 13, 2024
All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...
January 24, 2024
The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......
February 2, 2024
The most immediate work of conservatives must be the rejection of tribalism and a refocus on the individual—individual character, industry, and aptitude....
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....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
