We invite you to join us tomorrow for a discussion of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and on Friday for a webinar on climate solutions realism. Plus, tune in next week for the first webinar in our new series on race in higher education!

Our webinar on Michael Oakeshott, which was originally scheduled for this Thursday, has been postponed. We will let you know as soon as we have a new date! 

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS TOMORROW at 2 pm ET for a discussion of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”

What makes The Maltese Falcon a great American novel? Who influenced Hammett's writings, and who did his writings influence?

The webinar will feature Tom Devine, Professor of History at California State University, Northridge; Martin Edwards, Archivist of the Crime Writers' Association and President of the Detection Club; and Cynthia Hamilton, Professor Emerita in American Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool Hope University.

The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS this Friday, December 2, at 3 pm ET for "Climate Solutions Realism."

Do we need to radically transform how we power our society? The conventional climate change wisdom says that we must do so, and with the utmost urgency, because catastrophic consequences will follow if we do not. Rarely considered are the catastrophic consequences that could follow if we do.

Mark P. Mills is Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has a long and distinguished career studying energy technology, petroleum geopolitics, and industrial policy, including a stint in President Reagan’s White House Science Office. He also is the host of the Manhattan Institute’s podcast, "The Last Optimist," where he explores the implications of energy and technological transformation. 

This eight installment in the Restoring the Sciences webinar series will feature a fascinating discussion with Mark Mills about the complicated matter of energy, politics, and climate. The discussion will be moderated by J. Scott Turner, Director of the Intrusion of Diversity in the Sciences Project for the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS next Thursday, December 8, at 2 pm ET for "A Referendum on Race: The SFFA Cases and the Court's Role."

The Supreme Court is considering the cases of SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, landmark cases that call into question the constitutionality of racial preferences in higher education.

How did we arrive here? What, historically, has been the Court's ruling on racial preferences, and how has the law shaped the current regime of institutionalized racial preferences at America's institutions of higher education?

The speakers for this webinar will include Dennis Saffran, appellate attorney and political and public policy writer, and Richard Sander, Jesse Dukeminier Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research for the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars