The Education Exchange: Peeling Back the Curtain on the “Science” Funded by NSF

A $5 billion cut to the budget of the National Science Foundation aims to purge political posturing

Photo of Heather Mac DonaldHeather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Mac Donald’s recent article, which is critical of the changes the Trump Administration has made with the National Science Foundation.

Mac Donald’s article, “Trump Takes on Big Science,” is available now from City Journal.

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