Our federal science policy has inflicted a four-fold crisis on America. The worst of these crises is a crisis of liberty: our laws and regulations now encourage technocrats and radical activists embedded in government service to promote false research to justify illiberal regulatory policy. The other three crises are nearly as grave: our laws and regulations allow universities to overcharge the federal government in its grants; federal grant money imposes discriminatory and illiberal “diver...| www.nas.org
Nearly a month ago I wrote to the president of Ohio Northern University (ONU), Dr. Melissa J. Baumann, concerning her university’s treatment of law professor Scott Gerber. I also posted the letter to the National Association of Scholars website. It has attracted a fair amount of attention, but not from President Baumann, who so far has not replied.| www.nas.org
Ohio Northern University (ONU) seems intent on chiseling into granite its protocol for getting rid of a faculty member who disagrees with the institution’s woke ideology, even when the faculty member believes in good faith that the woke ideology has led to illegal hiring and admissions practices and is indifferent to viewpoint diversity. The latest news is that the Common Pleas Court of Hardin County, Ohio, issued a temporary restraining order on July 6, preventing ONU from moving ahead wit...| www.nas.org
Editor's Note: The letter below was sent to Melissa Baumann, President of Ohio Northern University, after she and Law School Dean Charles Rose initiated an investigation of Professor Scott Gerber. The university has so far refused to explain to the Professor what deed caused his banning and forced removal from campus. This is a clear abuse of process and of the Professor's rights. Professor Gerber has detailed his experience in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.| www.nas.org
Research since World War II has consistently found overwhelmingly left-oriented political attitudes and ideological self-Identification among college and university faculty. It has also found overwhelming support for the Democratic Party (see e.g., Klein and Stern, 2005; Klein and Stern, 2009; Gross & Simmons, 2007; Honeycutt & Freberg, 2017; McClintock, Spaulding, & Turner, 1965; Rothman, Lichter, & Nevitte, 2005; Buss & von Hippel, 2018). These findings are important for several reasons. Re...| www.nas.org
In this article I offer new evidence about something readers of Academic Questions already know: The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans. The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but never...| www.nas.org
79Christopher Freiman, “Cosmopolitanism within Borders: On Behalf of Charter Cities,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 30, no. 1 (2013): 40–52; and Rahul Sagar, “Are Charter Cities Legitimate?” Journal of Political Philosophy 24, no. 4 (2016): 509–29.| www.nas.org