Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on October 29, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In an online discussion about educational testing, an exasperated education professional interjected that the whole discussion was moot. Had there ever been even a […]
Read More
Henry Knox was only 25 years old when he convinced George Washington to trust him with retrieving nearly 60 tons of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga and getting it to Boston before the winter was out. A Boston bookseller turned self-taught artilleryman, Knox had already shown in the siege lines that he possessed the combination of […]
Read More
Editor’s Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech delivered by NAS Director of Research David Randall to the School Board Member Alliance of Virginia on November 14. In it, Randall outlines practical steps Virginia school boards can take to restore rigorous, liberty-focused civics and social studies instruction. We publish the speech here […]
Read More
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on October 23, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission In the years since Hamas’s October 7 attack, America’s colleges and universities have become moral barometers, and many have failed the test. At Columbia, […]
Read More
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the author’s Substack Heterodox STEM on October 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), proudly trumpeting its obscurantism, has pre-published “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity: The problems with […]
Read More
Note: Top of Mind subscribers received a condensed version of this article in this week’s newsletter. This is the full-length piece, including copies of the assignments discussed. If one were to need a specific example of how colleges and universities are creating leftist foot soldiers, they need look no further than the assignments currently being […]
Read More
On November 13, 1775, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery led the victorious American army into the city of Montreal. He had laid the military foundation for the state of Canada to join the Union, and went off with his army toward Quebec City to finish the campaign, which did not go as planned. The Battle of […]
Read More
Princeton University’s decision to reinstate SAT and ACT testing requirements marks a victory for common sense. The students who choose not to report their test scores to admissions departments are generally those who calculate that their scores are too low to make their applications competitive. Colleges have always understood that, but have gone along with […]
Read More
With every passing year, the left exhibits greater contempt for America, and that trend is evident in the growing disrespect for Veterans Day on college campuses. Colleges and universities not only replace patriotic traditions with woke celebrations like Juneteenth, but openly advocate against this day of remembrance for U.S. service members. Institutions such as Harvard, […]
Read More
July 2025 was the centennial of the famous “monkey trial” of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was on trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. There is a preferred narrative for the Scopes trial, which goes […]
Read More
College students are on an alarming path of equating words with weapons and supporting politically-motivated violence to stop “harmful speech.” Even before the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of […]
Read More
“Should I let go of my Zionist friends?” asks an anonymous Harvard student. A Harvard Crimson editor responds: yes, the student is entitled to end those friendships. What sounds like a thoughtful meditation on friendship and conviction instead reads like a dispatch from a campus that no longer knows what truth is—or what friendship requires. […]
Read More
The Dunmore Declaration probably gets more attention in 2025 than it did in 1775, when John Murray, Lord Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, proclaimed that certain slaves and indentured servants in the colony who helped the British suppress the Patriot rebellion would be granted their freedom. The offer was limited to young men who […]
Read More
Recently, Zohran Mamdani—winner of the New York mayoral race—faced opposition in a letter signed by 1,000 rabbis, cantors, and yeshiva students. These leaders of the Jewish community feared the normalization of anti-Semitism within New York and broader afield, as Mamdani has accused the Israeli government of genocide, said that he would arrest Binyamin Netanyahu were […]
Read More
Author’s Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. A $10 billion educational juggernaut promising to soothe young minds amid rising anxiety rates has taken America’s classrooms hostage. It’s called Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL’s […]
Read More
Both facts and rhetoric often shape the public discourse on thorny topics. In fact, no subject other than race illustrates the gulf of differences between the two. On one hand, adherents to a race-based dogma demand top-down filtering of socioeconomic policies and culturally acceptable viewpoints through the lens of race. To the left, observed disparities […]
Read More
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.[1] – Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995). Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry For […]
Read More
Author’s Note: I serve as a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president, but the views expressed here are my own. What follows reflects my personal experience as a Texas State student who organized the memorial and witnessed the events of that day. When Turning Point USA at Texas State hosted a memorial for Charlie Kirk […]
Read More
Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted to the editor of Minding the Campus in response to his article, “College Students in a Romance Recession, Boys Blame ‘Hoeflation.’” Jared, the problems you identify in this rather depressing article are symptoms rather than causes. The cause of the current malaise among our youth begins at the beginning. […]
Read More
Once upon a time, people dressed sharply, minded their manners, and worried about how their behavior reflected on their families and communities. Sure, this was partly driven by vanity, but it was also useful. Such prosocial vanity is maligned by modern standards as shallow, but it was not shallow; it served a purpose: it kept people […]
Read More