A discussion on what must be done to reorient higher education to serve the American national interest.
March 13, 2026Guarding the Front Door While China Uses the Side Entrance to American Education?Neglecting to apply scrutiny over university–high school partnerships is a mistake.
March 12, 2026Testimony: Exposing Malign Foreign Influence in Higher EducationPeruse Peter Wood's remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the “Transparency and Trust: Exposing Malign Foreign Influence in Higher......
March 11, 2026Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court and Trump with DEI ‘Rebrand’Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law.
The National Student Clearinghouse released its preliminary fall enrollment report in November, and while the numbers are no longer brand new, they remain worth closer attention. The report shows tota......
December 17, 2025What the New International Enrollment Drop Really ShowsThe State Department–sponsored Open Doors report shows a 17 percent decline in new international students enrolling in American graduate programs this fall. The figure is eye-catching, but it is hard......
In this report, J. Scott Turner reassesses America’s 75‑year experiment with federally funded “Big Science,” arguing that the system built to spark discovery has instead s......
September 30, 2025Should Science Go to DIEShould Science Go to DIE finds that an authoritarian, anti-scientific ideology —DEI—has captured MIT. On campus, DEI suppresses free speech, undermines scientific inquiry, and has spl......
September 28, 2025A Ramblin' Wreck Over the RainbowThis report surveys the history of DEI at Georgia Institute of Technology. We trace the origins of DEI’s underlying philosophy back to our nation’s adversaries who sought to antagonize rac......
September 28, 2025Diversity Rocket Science at CaltechThis report documents the growth and operation of DEI at Caltech, as well as its rebranding over the past two years. It also highlights the awkwardness and ideologically performative nature of DEI in......
March 10, 2026
Listen in on a discussion of the consequential year one foreign policy decisions of President Trump's second term, and what is ahead.
February 17, 2026
Listen in on the release of the new NAS report Rescuing Science. Recovering Science as Civic Virtue.
March 10, 2026
To cultivate virtuous citizens, academia must revitalize the liberal arts....
March 10, 2026
Listen in on a discussion of the consequential year one foreign policy decisions of President Trump's second term, and what is ahead....
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
Tennessee’s Senate has happily just passed Senate Bill 1890. We urge the Tennessee House to pass its companion bill, House Bill 1805, and we urge Governor Bill Lee to sign the bill into law......
March 5, 2026NAS Supports Idaho Senate Bill 1336 to Reform K-12 Social EducationIdaho Senate Bill 1336 will educate Idaho’s children to know more of America and the West, and above all, to know what there is to love about our country and its ideals.
Rescuing Science. Recovering Science as Civic Virtue offers a path to restoring the academic sciences to an ethic of discovery.
January 13, 2026Schools Still Have Illegal DEI? Tell Us!Despite President Trump’s ban on DEI radicalism and the Supreme Court’s finding DEI illegal, many schools retain it by a different name.
A discussion on what must be done to reorient higher education to serve the American national interest.
March 4, 2026Event: Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy: An Annual ReviewJoin us for an event discussing the consequential year one foreign policy decisions of President Trump's second term, and what is ahead.
