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April Newsletter
Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords, Keeping Watch, and more


** Academic Questions
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April 14, 2025


** The Spring Issue of AQ is here! ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars

This spring issue of Academic Questions tumbles off our presses in the midst of the great turmoil that President Trump has unleashed on American higher education, featuring articles by George R. La Noue, Edward S. Shapiro, Stewart Justman, and others.


** Featured Articles
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April 15, 2025


** Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords ([link removed])
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Peter Wood

The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice but to fight back.
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April 02, 2025


** Kudos to Ohio Advocates ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars

OAS, the National Association of Scholars’ Ohio affiliate, has done exemplary work in making Ohio Senate Bill 1 possible.

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March 31, 2025


** Keeping Watch ([link removed])
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Peter Wood

Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough.

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March 26, 2025


** Hackers Reveal Racial Discrimination at New York University ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars

Hackers have embarrassed New York University (NYU) by breaking into the university’s servers and posting on NYU’s home page the statistics on how NYU commits race discrimination in its undergraduate admissions.

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March 24, 2025


** A Reckoning for Higher Education? ([link removed])
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Teresa R. Manning

Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?


** Announcements
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** NAS Urges Trump Administration to Preserve the Institute of Education Sciences ([link removed])
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Whatever the ultimate disposition of the Education Department, we believe that much of IES ought to be preserved in some administrative home.

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** Scholars Urge Senate to Pass DETERRENT Act ([link removed])
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We are thankful to the House for its passage of the DETERRENT Act and strongly urge the Senate to take up and act on this critical legislation.

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** NAS Commends Trump Administration for Education Department Executive Order ([link removed])
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Slash-and-burn is not enough: if it is to be closed forever, the Department of Education must be rooted out, statute by statute.

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** The Free Inquiry Papers: A Book Event ([link removed])
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Free inquiry and free speech are increasingly under threat. A new AEI book, The Free Inquiry Papers—a collection of essays by political scientists, lawyers, doctors, and scientists—explores how we got here and offers practical strategies for educators, institutions, and policymakers to defend and strengthen liberal inquiry in education. Join AEI Senior Fellow Sally Satel, one of the book’s editors, as she introduces a panel discussion on The Free Inquiry Papers and the new administration’s approach to these issues. To find out more about the event on Thursday, April 17 at 4:30 pm ET and to register, 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]) .


** Events
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** Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom ([link removed])
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Join the National Association of Scholars at our New York City office on Friday, April 25, at 3 pm ET ([link removed]) for a discussion on our new report Ideological Insistence and to hear from a panel of experts.

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** Professors Speak Out ([link removed])
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Join us for a webinar event on Tuesday, April 29, at 4 pm ET ([link removed]) to hear testimonies from Nicholas Wolfinger, Jason Kilborn, and Robert Froderman about their investigations into questionable campus probes.


** Member Publications
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** Walter E. Block
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“Walter Block • Libertarianism, Children’s Rights, COVID, and the Abortion Debate,” Walter’s Newsletter, April 07, 2025. ([link removed])

“Affirmative Action for Intellectual Diversity?” Walter’s Newsletter, April 07, 2025. ([link removed])

“Tariffs Are Awful, But The Income Tax May Be Worse,” Walter’s Newsletter, March 30, 2025. ([link removed])

“A Modest Proposal: Legalize Drugs, End Gang Warfare,” Walter’s Newsletter, March 24, 2025. ([link removed])

“Walter Block vs. Ben Burgis on Socialism (FULL DEBATE),” Walter’s Newsletter, March 24, 2025. ([link removed])



** Joseph Chamie
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“The Profound Rise of the Elderly,” Inter Press Service, March 25, 2025. ([link removed])

“The United States Confronts the Demographic Piper,” Inter Press Service, March 17, 2025. ([link removed])


** J. Daryl Charles
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“The Spirit of Munich: Unjust Negotiations versus a Just Peace,” Providence Magazine, February 28, 2025. ([link removed])

“Just Statecraft and the Problem of ‘Peace,’” Providence Magazine, February 12, 2025. ([link removed])

“The Debasement of Tolerance,” First Things, January 07, 2025. ([link removed])


** Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
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“Nabladot analysis of hybrid theories in international relations," in Eirene e Atena: Studi di politica internazionale in onore di Umberto Gori, edited by Fulvio Attina, Luciano Bozzo, Marco Cesa and Sonia Lucarelli, pp. 31-53 (Florence, Italy: Florence University Press, 2022).

"Formal theoretical analysis of the Auerbach-Zipf law of social complexity in archaeology using nabladot calculus," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2022), (University of Oxford, UK, August 8–11, 2022).


** Brian Cutsinger and Alexander W. Salter
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“Simple Economics May Derail the MAHA Reform of Food Stamps," National Review, March 25, 2025. ([link removed])


** John Fraim
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“The Psychology of Change,” Midnight Oil Studios, March 24, 2025. ([link removed])


** George R. La Noue
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“The Widening Effect of Students for ([link removed]) Fair ([link removed]) Admissions,” The Federalist Society vol. 26, March 03, 2025. ([link removed])


** Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
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“Book Review: Mindless,” The Abrahamic Metacritic, April 06, 2025. ([link removed])


** Robert Maranto, Catherine Salmon, Lee Jussim, and Sally Satel
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The Free Inquiry papers: How to bring back free inquiry (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, April 2025). ([link removed])



** Robert Maranto
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“Save America---Reform higher education,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, March 14, 2025. ([link removed])



** Alexander W. Salter
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“What a Trumped-up Fed Means for the Global Economy,” Daily Economy, March 24, 2025. ([link removed])



** Catherine Perez-Shakdam
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“Cary Nelson’s Mindless and the Tragedy of the Western University,” Times of Israel, March 25, 2025. ([link removed])


** Kenin M. Spivak
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“EU's Protectionist Policies Have Been in Place Long Before Trump,” RealClear World, April 15, 2025. ([link removed])

“Trade Wars: Snatching Confusion From the Jaws of Clarity,” RealClear Politics, April 08, 2025. ([link removed])

“An Easy Choice,” American Mind, March 25, 2025. ([link removed])

“Hunter’s Wonderful Life,” RealClear Politics, March 15, 2025. ([link removed])


** Elizabeth Weiss
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“Local opinion: Banning bones and books,” Tucson.com, March 21, 2025. ([link removed])

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