Recent Articles

Trading Academic Freedom

The AAUP’s reversal of their stance on academic boycotts signals their movement away from academic freedom.

About the Foreign Funds Database

Learn more about our foreign funds database and how to use it. 

Press Release: NAS Publishes a Better Foreign Funds Database

The National Association of Scholars has released a new, comprehensive foreign funds database.

Defoliated: How Our Universities Shred Our Civilization

Throughout the Western world the academy is imperiled. It faces threats of several kinds, but the principal threat is from its own turn against the civilization that gave rise to it.   

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Good News on Student Loan Forgiveness, Biden’s SAVE Plan Is Paused by Courts

While the Biden administration has at least nine plans to forgive student loans, some are much bigger than others. And the two biggest have now run into legal buzzsaws. The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) even......

The People from Nowhere

Between August 25 and August 27, 1774, the First North Carolina Provincial Congress met in New Bern, North Carolina. There they passed resolutions that they would not import any goods from Britain, in......

Reports

China and Our Children

This report fills a gap in previous work by examining how the Chinese Communist Party uses language as a tool of asymmetric warfare, and its deployed effects in the United States. Confucius Class......

DEI and Maryland College Campuses

This report surveys the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and administrative initiatives at 12 University System of Mayland campuses.

The Franklin Standards

These model K-12 state science standards seek to restore informed and disciplined curiosity to American science education, along with the spirit and the rigor of America's first great scientist an......

The Illusion of Institutional Neutrality

College presidents often come under the spotlight for their political pronouncements or lack thereof. Since college presidents must contend with difficult issues of morality, principle, and politics a......

CounterCurrent


August 13, 2024

Back to School

A glimpse into higher education’s state of affairs before the academic year commences....

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August 6, 2024

An Elephant Walks into Class

An assessment of the Republican higher education platform....

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July 30, 2024

Don’t Cry for Them, Academia

The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......

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Statements

AAUP Trades Academic Freedom for Boycotts

The AAUP's new statement on boycotts places academic freedom on the backburner for temporary political gain.

Education Department Shuts Down Foreign Funds Database

The sudden shutdown of the interactive database on foreign funds sparks questions that are left unanswered by the Education Department. 

Press Releases

Press Release: NAS Publishes a Better Foreign Funds Database

The National Association of Scholars has released a new, comprehensive foreign funds database.

Press Release: China and Our Children

This new report exposes how the Chinese Communist Party uses language as a tool of asymmetric warfare, and its deployed effects in the United States.

Events

Event: Reforming Federal Science Policy

A presentation of the NAS Model Science Policy Code, a comprehensive blueprint for Federal policymakers to reform federal science policy.

Event: WWW: Wax, Weiss, Widdowson—this time it's personal

Join the National Association of Scholars for a special in-person event at our New York City office, featuring Amy Wax, Elizabeth Weiss, and Frances Widdowson.