Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.

Those of us who track academic bias have long been plagued by a nagging question: when did it start?

Perhaps a former vice-presidential candidate was right when he said that there are two Americas. From what we’ve found, there is the one we live in, and the one that is studied in academia.

Academics say, and do, the darndest things. This year…

It is startling to compare the hubris of college administrators with the humility of combat veterans.

Their professors may still love it, but college students are going negative on Obamacare and the president whose name is often attached to it.

Talk about going against the grain: A pair of political scientists from Bradley University actually found that Sarah Palin helped John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

“Reagan rejected the traditional Cold War notion among American policy makers that the best defense against a Communist threat from the left was a strong dictatorship of the right,” Lynch writes.

If you love literature and go to Cornell, you’re probably in the wrong place.

Here’s why we keep going: to rescue history from the memory hole academia has created.

Public schools used to assign “What my country means to me” as an essay topic. One wonders what one would get from such an exercise if it were given to Cornell undergrads who got a chance to take the full panoply of courses available there under the heading, American Studies.

Currently academics debate whether they should be “sages on the stage” or “guides on the side.” It never occurs to them that they might not be very good in either role.