In the third episode of VAS News Chat, Teresa Manning and I examine the mounting pressure on American universities from both legal and geopolitical fronts. Manning, who serves as Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars and leads its Virginia affiliate, unpacks a series of federal actions—from Title IX enforcement battles to investigations into […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Liberty Unyielding on July 3, 2025, and is crossposted here with permission. It has been edited to fit Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. This fall, a Virginia couple is sending their daughter to George Mason University (GMU), Virginia’s largest public university, which has over 40,000 students. On June 30, they […]
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The most consequential—and I think harmful—economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes, uttered the expression headlining this article. Keynes believed public policy should concentrate on immediate, short-run problems. With that in mind, I have been part of American higher education for over six decades, and this is easily the most significant year in terms […]
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David Eltis’s Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades is a necessary and sobering work that should be read by every college student seeking to understand slavery not as an American peculiarity, but as a global institution embedded deep within human history. Drawing on decades of archival research, statistical data, and newly analyzed ship records, […]
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In April, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. announced his plans to notify medical schools that they will lose federal funding if they do not offer nutrition courses aimed at teaching students how to provide holistic treatment for patients. According to Kennedy, nutrition education is lacking in America’s medical schools, and as a result, […]
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