Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. A Social Media […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Real Clear Education on May 01, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. For years, would-be higher-education reformers have warned that America’s higher education crisis—soaring tuition, crippling student debt, and weak learning—was rooted in a dangerous […]
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There is a nomocratic and teleocratic view of the Constitution. The nomocratic view, which accorded with the original understanding of almost everyone involved, is that the Constitution was designed to bring government under the rule of law, as opposed to achieving any specific purposes. The intention is evident to anyone who will take the trouble […]
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Classical education is growing rapidly in America—and with good reason. Set aside for the moment whether classical education provides a better character education than mainstream K-12 education. It does a good job simply in conveying basic knowledge and preparing students for college and careers. [R]esearch shows CCE graduates possess uniquely valuable skills for modern employers. […]
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In Spring 2024, I took a required English course expecting to learn how to write clearly, build arguments, and think critically. Instead, I learned something else: the path to an A ran straight through ideological conformity. The professor—whose name I’ll leave unmentioned out of respect—began every session with a mandatory moment of silence for what […]
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In Episode 2 of The Week in Science, Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars, dissects Science magazine’s critical response to the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. The magazine describes a “chaotic 100-day push” that they claim has dismantled scientific and public health infrastructure, including the erasure of […]
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For years, women have been told that men who loudly identify as feminists are enlightened, safe, and ideal partners. But too often, their behavior contradicts the values they claim to support. The men who shout the loudest about feminism, whether in classrooms, media, or activist spaces, frequently turn out to be the least trustworthy. And […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lucy Rendler-Kaplan | Arkay Marketing & PR Phone: 847.347.2102 | Email: [email protected] Chicago Screening of Kosha Dillz’s Documentary Canceled Just Hours Before Showtime Due to “Intimidation” — Wilmette Theatre Steps Up to Host Sold-Out Premiere Chicago, IL — May 14, 2025 — A scheduled film screening and panel discussion of Bring the Family Home, a documentary by […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Real Clear Education on May 01, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Early in my tenure at the education policy organization I founded, we barely had any money. No money meant no lobbyist, which left […]
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“In 2024,” says a new report from Americans for Public Trust, “China poured over $175 billion into U.S. schools, and the historic breadth of this vast enterprise cannot be understated.” Americans for Public Trust’s report also reveals that, Additional government investigations have also revealed a dramatic increase in instances of U.S-based researchers being arrested for […]
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In his Farewell Address to the United States Congress in 1951, former Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific General Douglas MacArthur gave a riveting speech. In that speech, he stated a truism that is as relevant today as it was nearly seventy-five years ago: There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. […]
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Amid growing global skepticism toward “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Japanese universities are rapidly embracing surprisingly radical DEI measures. In Japan’s university admissions, admission quotas for females (Joshi-waku, literally “Girls’ Quotas”) grant eligibility exclusively to women and are being introduced successively in highly competitive STEM programs. Both national and private institutions employ this scheme. Typically, […]
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The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has launched a new podcast. It features Scott Turner, NAS’s Director of Science Programs, who will cover topics that strike his fancy each week in the world of science. Watch for a new episode every week. In Episode 1, Turner looks at two articles published in the May 1, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. I sought a career in academia because it promised a life of intellectual freedom; to think, write, and teach what I […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Heritage on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. [E]very political philosopher has always recognized, that there must be some conviction, usually embodied in the form of a story that can be told, comprehended, and taken to […]
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Wearing a puffy bright orange beanie tilted at an angle on his bald head and an oversized T-shirt depicting Drake with a yarmulke on his head, Jewish rapper Rami Matan, aka Kosha Dillz, gesticulated enthusiastically with his hands as he stood before the crowd that had assembled outside of The Wilmette Theater. The location for the Tuesday night […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on All Things Rhapsodical on May 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. This is just up on Chronicles and not paywalled. Michel Houellebecq is a remarkable figure in literature. He has written a number of excellent novels, dealing […]
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Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World is a book about the recent anthropological origins of the celebration of unreason that permeates academia and much of the world we now live in, especially in the U.S.. The book logically falls into three parts. The first and most lengthy part of the book is devoted to […]
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Forty years ago, it was “political correctness” and hate speech codes. Then came “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Now, universities promote the “health promoting campus” (HPC), which, at first glance, seems positive. But history urges caution. The student affairs profession has been relabeling the same thing for forty years, and the HPC […]
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The year is 1901, and the British Empire rules the waves. The small island nation’s maritime empire crisscrosses the globe, governing over twenty-five percent of the world’s population. As a blue power, Britain’s national strategy is to protect its trade networks, ensure freedom of navigation for its merchants, maintain the balance of power in Europe, […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. It was this […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Far too many students are entering higher education ill-equipped to handle the rigors of collegiate-level science classes, according to professors who say they’ve had to alter their […]
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A recent Minding the Campus article reported that more than two dozen publications, co-authored by Arizona State University (ASU) professor Sethuraman Panchanathan, have been flagged on PubPeer. Panchanathan is the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which outsources plagiarism investigations to the universities it funds. If you were a university funded by NSF, would […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on May 14, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. I have edited it, to the best of my ability, to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. I am one of the many feminist writers and left-wing […]
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The University of Maryland Global Campus “Unstoppable Stories” Podcast According to Podcast Statistics & Industry Trends 2025: Listens, Gear, & More, there are 4,509,765 podcasts registered globally—and who knows how many more are unregistered? We shouldn’t be asking then, “So, who has a podcast these days?” Instead, the question should be “Who doesn’t have a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Democrats will outnumber Republicans as commencement speakers at the nation’s top 100 universities, according to a College Fix analysis. The College Fix looked for the main undergraduate ceremony speaker for […]
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At the 97th Academy Awards, Mikey Madison won Best Actress for her performance in Anora and said in her speech, “I want to recognize and support the sex worker community as an ally.” But normalizing sex work reduces women’s value to physical appeal, undermining true empowerment rooted in respect, intellect, and character. The debate over […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on May 12, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Let us take for granted that the NCAA in its prime was greedy, hypocritical, reactionary, schoolmarmish, tone-deaf, and […]
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The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) released a memo a few weeks ago to inform clinical psychology programs of their decision “to immediately and temporarily suspend evaluation of programs for compliance with several specific accreditation standards. The suspended standards are those related to faculty and student program actions in the […]
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Representing ourselves, my son and I just filed lawsuits against the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and Cornell for discriminating against Asian Americans in their admissions. The LA Times, Fox News, and New York Post covered our lawsuits. In short, at age 18, co-plaintiff Stanley Zhong was hired by […]
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