Month: April 2025

Deterring Foreign Influence Is a Marathon—DETERRENT Act Gets Us Started

Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. It was welcome […]

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Deciphering Censorship Disguised as Scientific Rigor

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 18, 2025. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. In a text entitled “Regarding the cancellation of FBB’s visit to […]

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Sarah Lawrence Must Answer to Congress—And Rightly So

In the winter of 2024, the U.S. Department of Education announced that an investigation is underway at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) over its anti-Semitic environment. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrote in a December 23 letter that it will examine “whether the College failed to respond to alleged harassment of students […]

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NAS, Coming to a Legislator Near You

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on April, 2025, and is crossposted here with permission. Today, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) celebrates Congress’s bipartisan vote to move all existing operations of the Department of Education (ED) under the purview of the United States Popcorn Board. We are happy to have […]

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The UC System Is Risking National Security with China—It Must Cut Ties

In California, there is a three-tiered system of public universities. The California Community College (CCC) System serves as the foundation and feeds into the California State University System (CSU). This, then, steps up into the University of California System (UC). All of these are public university systems, and all fall under the federal definition of […]

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SAT Scores Show UATX Is Not Attracting Top Academic Talent

Like me, supporters of the University of Austin (UATX) have thought that it should be possible to enroll academically outstanding students. Indeed, sotto voce, we have speculated that, even in the first year or two, UATX would be able to match elite schools like Harvard and Williams in terms of objective metrics, such as SAT […]

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My Conversation with a ‘Silicon-Based Alien’ on Alien Life

For millennia, man has wondered whether he is alone in the universe. Organizations such as the SETI Institute (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), founded in 1984, once employed more than 100 scientists, educators, and support staff in their quest to “explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.” To […]

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When Inclusion Becomes Exclusion—the Consequences of Gender Ideology in Women’s Sports

In response to conservative concerns about transwomen athletes—biological men—competing in women’s sports, the left typically either denies the issue or insists it poses no disadvantage to biological female athletes. However, the story of former San Jose State University (SJSU) women’s volleyball player Brooke Slusser reveals the harsh reality: gender ideology extremism has left women unprotected. […]

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