Perspectives The Face of School Choice Malcolm A. Kline February 1, 2016 When the media deigns to cover a landmark Supreme Court case involving education, reporters should cultivate sources outside of the…
MLA, Perspectives From Stalinist Russia, With Love Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2016 In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched…
MLA, Perspectives Disabling Dickens Malcolm A. Kline January 29, 2016 Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and…
MLA, Perspectives MLA Deconstructs Middle East Malcolm A. Kline January 28, 2016 When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences…
MLA, Perspectives Patchwork Girl @ the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 27, 2016 Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss…
MLA, Perspectives Good News for English Majors, Sort Of Malcolm A. Kline January 26, 2016 When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention,…
MLA, Perspectives MLA Creates a New Word and World, Apparently Malcolm A. Kline January 25, 2016 Somewhat true to its name, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has transformed the word “imaginary” from an adjective into a…
MLA, Perspectives Ecologically Correct: It’s Academic! Malcolm A. Kline January 14, 2016 It’s interesting that although liberals are the ones who most like to talk about protecting the environment, conservatives are the…
MLA, Perspectives Academic Animal Studies/Farm Malcolm A. Kline January 13, 2016 George Orwell might have been amused. Academia is well on its way to quite literally becoming Animal Farm. Indeed, the…
MLA, Perspectives Rock, Paper, Scissors Malcolm A. Kline January 12, 2016 It’s interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite…
Perspectives Academic Largely Ignores Benefits of Intact Families Malcolm A. Kline January 8, 2016 That intact families are more economically solvent than fractured ones has long been observed outside of academe. Arguably, as with…
Perspectives Rutgers Faculty Opposes “Academic Inquiry” Malcolm A. Kline January 7, 2016 Academics generally resist most attempts to invade their sanctum. Nevertheless, although they may share an elastic definition of “scholarship,” they…
