Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) on November 4, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The American Conservative, a magazine that has endured numerous editorial changes since its founding in 2002 by Pat Buchanan, is currently under the control […]
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“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” ideology, or DEI, has replaced merit and intellectual diversity with forced inclusivity and conformity. In K-12 education, this shift has often meant lowering expectations to prevent students from feeling excluded, rather than raising all students to higher standards. In practice, this prioritizes social comfort over genuine learning. For example, philosopher and […]
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The ideal of academic freedom has always rested on a simple promise: scholars must be free to pursue truth, wherever it leads. But new data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) show how far higher education has drifted from that ideal. In FIRE’s latest survey, an astonishing 94 percent of faculty reported […]
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