National Association of Scholars

10/12/2026

If Harvard’s experiment succeeds as a legitimate undertaking, other colleges and universities may follow suit.

Read Peter Wood on Harvard's intriguing new hiring decisions:

It would be far more valuable if Harvard simply stopped discriminating against conservatives.

10/11/2026

Meloni’s government will now cap the share of students in a classroom who are foreign and do not adequately speak Italian at 30 percent. The decree also bans burqas and niqabs in schools, garments that completely cover a woman’s face.

Jared Gould with the latest:

Italy expects students to learn Italian. The critics are having a fit.

10/10/2026

America and the West are moving away from climate alarmism and toward energy policies that prioritize affordability, reliability, and economic growth. What geopolitical developments and domestic policies are driving this shift? And are we educating enough energy realists to sustain it?

In the latest episode of Cafe Berlin, we examine what has changed in energy politics in recent years, both at home and abroad.

Watch:

On this episode of Cafe Berlin, Ian and Lilla speak with Diane Furc...

10/09/2026

NAS Senior Fellow Ian Oxnevad examines how British universities' reliance on Chinese cash has created a massive national security blind spot, and why academic indifference to espionage threatens the entire West.

Read on RealClearPolitics:
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2026/10/06/can_britains_intelligence_service_change_its_universities_1210217.html

10/09/2026

Most schools need to make big changes in the next decade if they want to survive and prosper.

Collectively, they need to reverse the decline in public support critical to funding America’s colleges and universities. To do that, they need to shape up, become more efficient, and be less ideological.

Gallup has released new data showing a dramatic decline in public support of American higher education. For example, in 2013, 70 percent of respondents said having a college education was “very important.” By 2026, that had dramatically plummeted to 31 percent. Meanwhile, the proportion that sai...

10/09/2026

The best way to understand Going Further is as a complement to—not a replacement for—academic studies of Thomas’s jurisprudence.

Ted Cruz’s engaging portrait of Clarence Thomas succeeds as biography but leaves important questions to legal scholarship.

10/08/2026

Since 2021, educators have been leaving their jobs in droves.

Read the update & more in our NAS CounterCurrent:

CounterCurrent Week of 10/05/2026 Teachers today are dealing not only with declining student literacy, but also with years of classroom behavioral problems that have contributed to burnout and an exodus…

10/08/2026

Harvard is facing pushback over plans to hire conservative faculty. Speaking to The Washington Times, NAS President Peter Wood weighed in, questioning how the school will actually identify and hire credible scholars.

Harvard University is facing backlash from academics and racial activists for soliciting $10 million gifts to hire conservative faculty for “viewpoint diversity,” according to recent reports.

10/08/2026

We must compete with China means that both America and China are likely to race toward ever-increasing AI capacities, because we will be helpless if we fall behind.

David Randall on the right decision regarding AI:

Colleges and universities are making consequential, possibly permanent choices under conditions of deep uncertainty.