December 7, 2009
NAS president Peter Wood’s book review of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, is linked on Arts and Letters Daily.
December 4, 2009
In admirable contrast with the U.S. MSM -- which to its great shame has barely (if at all) covered the momentous climate-change, leaked e-mails scandal -- the Sunday T......
December 4, 2009
Carol Iannone, the Editor-at-Large of our journal Academic Questions, writes in: Recently I just happened upon the DVDs of Yes, Minister, an absolutely superb British comedy series from the 1980s......
December 3, 2009
A humanist student group called the Tufts Freethought Society asks for a spiritual guide.
December 3, 2009
Three comments responding to his article "The AAUP: A View From the Top."
December 2, 2009
Charlie Martin skewers "Fraud Denier" warmist Phil Plait for calling the global warming e-mails a "non-event." Here's Martin's emphatic refutation at Discover, which appears to be ......
December 2, 2009
North Carolina is one of three states with a government-run fine arts education institution. The UNC School of the Arts was created back in 1965 by politicians who thought it would be a good thing t......
December 2, 2009
Via Professor David Gordon, president of NAS's New York affiliate, an announcement specifically for NAS members: THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS THE CUNY ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS  ......
December 2, 2009
An anonymous reader commenting on the NAS.org article "National Security Threatened by Devotion to Diversity" recently reported: The diversity doctrine not only harms the quality of higher educati......
December 2, 2009
NAS endorses the AAUP statement "Free Expression at Risk, at Yale and Elsewhere."
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 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?...
October 31, 2023
A faculty hiring committee at the University of Washington “inappropriately considered candidates’ races when determining the order of offers,” provided “disparate op......
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?...
July 8, 2011
Professor Jonathan Imber clarifies concepts of sociologocal theory....