January 12, 2009
Peter Wood, who became president of the National Association of Scholars at the beginning of this year, presented the following speech in honor of Steve Balch, NAS's founder and its president for......
January 5, 2009
Remarks from a conservative professor of social work advance the debate: is social work education scandalously biased? We invite further comments.
December 31, 2008
Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne ponder how NAS should ring in the new year.
December 24, 2008
A centuries-old tale of life among native cannibals can't be allowed to stand as a captivating narrative. It must be sanitized in one way or another by PC revisionists.
December 23, 2008
There is a move afoot to use economic bailout money to enroll ill-prepared students in numbers that would overwhelm our system. It rightly deserves the criticism we give it.
December 22, 2008
A broadly advertised appeal for higher education's share of the bailout falls apart upon close examination.
December 22, 2008
The observations of a young anthropology student in Indonesia are relevent for several reasons to the contemporary American experience.
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....