A Plan to Restore Civics in Virginia
…Civil War. Richmond is the birthplace of sportsman and civil rights icon Arthur Ashe, who has now been memorialized on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Richmond’s history is America’s history—and a good…
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Bizarre Assignments in a Texas State Communications Class Expose DEI’s Grip on the Curriculum
…“What turns you on?,” and “Are females equal, inferior, or superior to males?” Other questions probe students’ religion, income, political leanings, criminal history, and sexual attitudes. The second assignment, titled…
Liberty Froze in the North
…to our farms too soon. We may hope for better times than our forefathers. History rhymes rather than repeats. Still, we may yet face a hard winter at our own…
Campus, Veterans, and the Freedom to Learn
…teach military history and civics effectively. This neglect erodes understanding of the sacrifices made by those who serve and of the military’s role in our nation’s story. Thus, none of…
Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble
…academic freedom by the government in the history of American higher education,” a massive “onslaught designed to micromanage all colleges, public and private, and to suppress speech using the threat…
Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem
…of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class—with advance warnings—she was fired after student activists claimed the image caused harm. (The professor’s lawsuit against Hamline over the firing was…
Letter to the Editor: Boys, Girls, and the Costs of Overprotection
…you before, never in human history has a generation led the kind of pampered, protected, and miseducated youth that the university-age young people of today, in many cases, experienced since…
Universities Have a Logic Problem
…topic with a long history in philosophy. It largely concerns how we make generalizations and predictions from specific examples. But it contains a significant “judgment trap” because we may take…
Oklahoma Should Build on 2024 Draft Social Studies Standards, Not Return to the Flawed 2019 Model
…Standards add focused instruction on the Ancient and Medieval World, Holocaust Education, and the History of Communism to strengthen coverage of the ideals and history of Western civilization, the United…
Why Universities Should Welcome (and Sign) Trump’s Compact
…NAS had been raising warning flags for what was happening on campus. We did reports on the radical distortions in undergraduate history. We were the first to call out the…
Mead Chapel Will (Rightly) Haunt Middlebury
…are no closer to perfection than their predecessors. Whatever happens at the Vermont Supreme Court, the deeper issue remains: how our institutions are rewriting history to preserve their “moral authority,”…
Guess Who’s Teaching America’s College Students?
…counts of resisting and obstructing peace while protesting outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois. “Professor Eman Abdelhadi’s history of inflammatory and anti-American rhetoric is deeply concerning….
Lisa Siraganian Gets Viewpoint Diversity Backward
…of interference; it means the presence of conditions under which independent judgment can thrive. That requires disagreement; sometimes uncomfortable, often unpredictable. The most consequential ideas in human history, from heliocentrism…
Trans and Palestinian Identities: Partners in Fabrication?
…their claim to the land and their position as unjustly oppressed under the Israeli oppressors would be undermined. Therefore, they must deny history and tangible evidence in order to perpetuate…
College Students in a Romance Recession, Boys Blame ‘Hoeflation’
…pleasure and self-exploration over commitment. Harvard University also has a history of hosting sex fairs, complete with porn screenings and sex toy raffles. This November, it will hold its thirteenth…
Redemption for a Baylor Memorial
…used throughout history to describe human beings treated as property by others, at a deeper philosophical and Christian theological level, the term applies universally to all humans, past and present…
The Rot Inside Higher Education Is Too Deep to Self-Correct
…history for the last 35 years, there are just five or six self-proclaimed conservatives on a faculty of nearly 500. Moreover, many faculty abuse their power over students by reserving…
America’s Unipolar Moment Is Coming to an End—Its Universities Must Adapt to the Rising Multipolar Order
…that Stanford professor Francis Fukuyama proposed his End of History thesis. Fukuyama’s thesis held that following the end of the Cold War, the world would become a universal liberal system…
Reflections on What I Heard About Boomers at an Academic Summit
…supplanted Western Civ. The result has been a decline in students’ basic civics and historical literacy. (Read the National Association of Scholars’s report The Lost History of Western Civilization, which…
Australians Turn to the Classics to Rediscover Their Cultural Inheritance
…students encounter is based on what is contemporary and relevant instead of introducing students to Western civilization’s heritage. Every year, students encounter Aboriginal culture and history, thus leaving school with…
UPDATE: Texas State President Upholds Firing of Thomas Alter, Sparking Socialist-Led Protest
Just two weeks after a Hays County judge ordered Texas State University (TXST) to reinstate Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter, the university has terminated him once again. Alter’s latest…
Teachers’ Unions Have an Out-of-Control Anti-Semitism Problem
…courtyards filled with masked demonstrators in keffiyehs chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” Reports of Israel history classes disrupted, staff members barricaded in offices, and…
The Missing Puzzle Piece of Higher Education
…major. English majors can apply their writing and proofreading skills through hands-on experience in journalism, content writing, assistant editorial positions, and more. History majors can apply their knowledge in archival…
It Was a Gamble
…America had not just a titular Navy but one of history’s greatest naval commanders. America would, in time, have the world’s most powerful navy, but the U.S. Navy in its…
The Tyranny of Democracy’s Self-Appointed Guardians
…enforce immigration laws is a sign of militarism, it is just that—a narrative. Frankly, it is a false narrative easily debunked by the history of six U.S. presidents deploying the…
AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech
…sovereignty. The AAUP’s attempt to present immigration law as censorship ignores this history and distorts constitutional doctrine. The AAUP’s Own Words Prove the Point The AAUP’s own language gives away…
Ten Books That Influenced This Economist
…read this book, and at night I would go over to his house to play Risk, to gossip, to cackle … and to seriously discuss economics, politics, history, philosophy, and…
The Coming Jewish-Student ‘Brain Drain’
…moral decline, America should, in its own best interest, be concerned about the potential brain drain caused by pushing Jews out. History shows that that action has never ended well…
Trump’s Education Department Delivers Earliest FAFSA Rollout in History, Overturning Biden’s Botched Legacy
With drastic improvements, the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was launched ahead of the October 1 deadline—marking the earliest rollout in the program’s history. U.S. Secretary of…
Seven Theses for Viewpoint Diversity
…whole perspectives are not erased. Imagine a law school that hired only prosecutors and no defense attorneys. Or a history department that taught only one side of a war. That…