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May Newsletter
Ideological Insistence, In Memoriam: David Horowitz, and more


** Featured Articles
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April 16, 2025


** Report: Ideological Insistence ([link removed])
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Louis Galarowicz and Mason Goad

This report chronicles and quantifies the persistent commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" in higher education hiring practices by surveying open positions, from the janitors to the deans, on the job boards of 89 public universities across 11 states, as well as on the job boards of the eight Ivy League universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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May 09, 2025


** Trump Administration Ends Federal Disparate-Impact Theory Use ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars

All Americans should know how important it is to eliminate disparate action from government policy, and how great a blow the Trump administration has struck to the enemies of liberty.

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April 30, 2025


** In Memoriam: David Horowitz ([link removed])
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Peter Wood

We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfeasance on behalf of anti-American and anti-Western ideologies.

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April 28, 2025


** Bright Spots Do Exist in American Higher Education—Are They the Future? ([link removed])
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Teresa R. Manning

Four small colleges reject woke orthodoxy, student debt, and federal strings—offering faith, grit, and classical learning as a bold alternative in higher ed.

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April 26, 2025


** Trump Issues Executive Orders on Accreditation and Foreign Influence ([link removed])
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Teresa R. Manning

President Trump has issued a flurry of education-related Executive Orders this month. Two are on issues of concern for the National Association of Scholars: accreditation reform and foreign influence at colleges and universities.


** Announcements
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** NAS Endorses Arkansas House Bill 1696 ([link removed])
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Arkansas HB 1696 establishes the principle that a state university should have a core curriculum. Arkansas will join the state leaders of education reform in America when it passes this bill.

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** NAS Commends Government Proposal on Tackling Student Loan Crisis ([link removed])
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The Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan provides systematic and beneficial reform to America’s student loan system, and to higher education as a whole. It is a welcome complement to ED’s new policy initiatives to restore accountability to federal student loans.

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** Comment: Oklahoma Adopts New Science and Social Studies Standards ([link removed])
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Oklahoma adopts new standards informed by NAS, Civics Alliance, and Freedom in Education model standards.

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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 Event Recordings from NAS ([link removed])
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Watch the recordings of the National Association of Scholars’ most recent events, including Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom ([link removed]) and Professors Speak Out ([link removed]) . You can also listen to a new episode of our Right Ideas podcast with Louis Galarowicz and featuring Amy Wax here ([link removed]) . And Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at NAS, has begun a weekly science podcast which you can listen to here ([link removed]) .


** Member Publications
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** William Allen
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Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws,' edited and translated by William Allen (Anthem Press: February, 2024). ([link removed])



** Walter Block
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“Tom Woods TV: Milton Friedman Assessment and Critique, with Walter Block,” Walter's Newsletter, May 05, 2025. ([link removed])

“Walter Block: What Hans-Hermann Hoppe gets wrong about Javier Milei,” Walter’s Newsletter, April 28, 2025. ([link removed])

“Dr. Walter Block and Lee Enochs on President Trump, Adam Smith and Tariffs,” Walter’s Newsletter, April 28, 2025. ([link removed])


** Joseph Chamie
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“America struggles with birthright citizenship,” N-IUSSP, April 28, 2025. ([link removed])



** John Droz, Jr.
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“Media Balance Newsletter,” Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions, April 28, 2025. ([link removed])



** John Fraim
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“The Dictator’s Handbook,” Midnight Oil Studios, May 09, 2025. ([link removed])



** Nils A. Haug
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“The Sahel: Emerging Center of Global Islamism,” Gatestone Institute, April 11, 2025. ([link removed])

“A Statesman Among Us,” Gatestone Institute, March 09, 2025. ([link removed])

“Originalism and Ancient Rabbinic Exegesis,” Anchoring Truths, January 09, 2025. ([link removed])


** Lee Jussim and Robert Maranto
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“Can ‘Fear Equity’ Revive Campus Free Speech?” Inside Higher Education, May 07, 2025. ([link removed])


** Gene Kopelson
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Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman (California: Figueroa Press, April 04, 2016). ([link removed])



** George Liebmann
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“Shackles on a Free Society,” Law & Liberty, March 18, 2025. ([link removed])


** Robert Maranto
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“How Harvard Can Restore Trust and Retain Funding,” RealClear Education, April 28, 2025. ([link removed])

“Republicans beware: Censorship by the right is not better than by the left,” USA Today, April 21, 2025. ([link removed])


** David Randall
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“A Defense of John Ioannidis and Metascience,” RealClear Science, April 23, 2025. ([link removed])


** Anthony J. Sadar
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“Celebrate Earth Day by not burning a Tesla,” American Thinker, April 22, 2025. ([link removed])



** Alexander W. Salter
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“April’s Prices Rose, But Inflation Cooled Overall,” Daily Economy, May 13, 2025. ([link removed])

“Dr Alexander Salter Is it time for Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to receive his walking papers,” TheLarsLarsonShow, Podcast, April 19, 2025. ([link removed])

“Trump’s tariffs will likely lead to stagnation, not a depression,” The Hill, April 17, 2025. ([link removed])


** Kenin M. Spivak
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“Court Order Blocking Trump From Targeting Perkins Coie Is Overreach,” RealClear Politics, May 10, 2025. ([link removed])

“Canada Is Aggressively Attacking U.S. Trade, Farmers and Workers,” RealClear Politics, April 25, 2025. ([link removed])

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