Idaho’s House Bill 264, Protecting the Privacy of Women, was signed into law in April. The legislation requires “covered entities”—including correctional facilities, domestic violence shelters, and state educational institutions—to designate restrooms, changing areas, and dormitories exclusively for either males or females. Access to these spaces is restricted based on a person’s biological sex. Two transgender […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on September 2, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. The Trump administration has rolled out the welcome mat for Chinese students. A few months ago, when Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with President Trump regarding the ongoing trade war between China […]
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Over the last year, President Trump has made it his mission to ensure that all organizations and institutions receiving federal support comply with federal regulations. Higher education, for example, has seen over 4,000 grants—totaling billions of dollars—canceled, ending years of Americans’ tax dollars being spent on ridiculous, ideologically driven causes. Public education players, such as […]
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Editor’s Note: The following essay was submitted in response to Jared Gould’s Top of Mind column, “Young Americans Are Right to Be Angry—But Their Education Keeps the Cycle of Frustration Going,” published on August 21, 2025. Sorry for the late response, but I’ve been away from the web, visiting relatives and hiking. I read your […]
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Two recent news items from academia caught the eye. One is that Harvard might establish a new institute for the study of civics and the Constitution. Presumably, this would be a self-governing body within the university with enough independence to pursue a distinct mission—in this case, a relatively traditional approach to its discipline. If Harvard […]
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On August 20, the MIT Technology Review declared that artificial intelligence (AI) will help predict space weather. Yes, space has weather. Serious weather. It comes from eruptions from the sun called Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), which fling a vast quantity of mass into space. It can be dangerous to us if one of these solar […]
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This May, pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a commencement ceremony at the College of Staten Island. A crowd of students chanted, “Palestine will be free.” The next month, Liam Carey, a Williams College sophomore, tied himself to a Williams campus flagpole, replaced the U.S. flag with a Palestinian one, and wrote pro-Palestine graffiti on Sawyer Quad. The […]
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