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February Newsletter
Reforming the Department of Education, UC-Boulder Breaks Civil Rights Law, and more
** Featured Articles
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February 11, 2025
** Report: Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism ([link removed])
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David Randall, Teresa R. Manning, Neetu Arnold, Mason Goad, and Nathaniel Urban
This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term political dispositions of America's citizenry, supports the wholesale reform of ED, but not its elimination.
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January 29, 2025
** Rooting Out Race-Based Discrimination ([link removed])
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Peter Wood
A statement on President Trump's Executive Order, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."
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January 27, 2025
** Exclusive Documents: UC-Boulder Breaks Civil Rights Law to Advance Racial Preferences ([link removed])
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John D. Sailer and Louis Galarowicz
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a commitment to partisan ideology.
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January 21, 2025
** NAS Welcomes Trump's Day One Executive Orders on Education ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars
These executive orders promise ambitious and effective reform to rid American education of the many detrimental policy decisions that have accreted in the last years.
** Announcements
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** NAS Welcomes Introduction of Ohio SB 1 ([link removed])
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The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance welcome the introduction of Senate Bill 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, by Ohio State Senator Jerry Cirino.
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** Press Release: Trump Protects Due Process and Restores Sanity to Title IX ([link removed])
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Trump’s Education Department officially returned to the 2020 Title IX Rule, aligning the Education Department with federal court rulings that found the 2024 Biden Title IX rule unlawful.
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** NAS Urges Congress to Target Universities in Order to Stop Technology Transfers to China ([link removed])
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The National Association of Scholars applauds the vigilance of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in opposing subversion from China.
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** Alexander Hamilton Institute Announces Spring Courses ([link removed])
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The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that it will offer two courses for the spring semester, 2025. All AHI courses are free and open to the public. Advance signup is requested. Should you not be able to afford a copy of any required course reading, AHI will purchase it for you. For more information, click here ([link removed]) .
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** Government Education Jobs ([link removed])
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Are you looking for a job? Check out our list of U.S. Government jobs pertaining to the education sector. Click here to access our pdf of government job websites ([link removed]) .
** Media
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** New Webinar Recordings from NAS ([link removed])
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Watch the recordings of the National Association of Scholars’ most recent webinars, including A New Edition of an Ancient Hate ([link removed]) , and Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism ([link removed]) .
** Member Publications
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** Walter Block
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“Understanding the Austrian School of Economics with Walter Block,” Walter’s Newsletter, January 26, 2025. ([link removed])
“No to Biological Males Competing Against Women,” Walter’s Newsletter, January 26, 2025. ([link removed])
** Joseph Chamie
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“America’s Scourge: An Ageing Elderly Population,” Inter Press Service, February 03, 2025. ([link removed])
** David Eisenberg
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Review of Edgar Landgraf’s Nietzsche’s Posthumanism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023, pp. 280), The Review of Politics, 2025, 1-3. ([link removed])
** Jon M. Fennell
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“The Positive Educational Program of The Abolition of Man,” Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, vol. 18 (2024), 51-66. ([link removed])
** Andrew Gillen
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“Ending Federal Student Loans: There Is a Small Window of Opportunity to Get the Government out of Student Lending,” Cato Institute, January 21, 2025. ([link removed])
** Mark Mercer
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“Academic Discussion and the Vulnerable Student,” Newsletter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, no. 100, January 2025, 14-15. ([link removed])
** Alexander Riley
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“The Ideological Attack of MLK Week,” All Things Rhapsodical, January 27, 2025. ([link removed])
** Anthony J. Sadar
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“Bring realism, not idealism, to science,” Washington Examiner, February 06, 2025. ([link removed])
** Alexander W. Salter
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“Against Central Bank Independence,” Daily Economy, January 29, 2025. ([link removed])
“To Whip Inflation, Trump Needs The Courage To Be Unpopular,” Daily Economy, January 24, 2025. ([link removed])
“We Need Better Statesmen, Not Technocrats,” Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2025. ([link removed])
** Kenin M. Spivak
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“Democrats Can’t Bully Their Way to a Free Pass,” RealClear Policy, January 21, 2025. ([link removed])
“Centrist Democrats Can’t Get Past TDS and the Left,” RealClear Policy, January 20, 2025. ([link removed])
** Ernest Sternberg
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“At the Neoprogressive-Neofascist Convergence: Constructing the Zionist Fiend at Counterpunch,” Journal for Contemporary Antisemitism, vol. 7, no. 3, 2024, pp. 57-80. ([link removed])
** Elizabeth Weiss
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“Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology,” Reality’s Last Stand, January 16, 2025. ([link removed])
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