Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

An academic takes a look at the effects of violence that may be at odds with that of many of his peers.

“The abiding belief that we can plant democracy anywhere, and that it will then flourish in harmony and love thereafter, is never cured by facts or upset by anomalies.”—Peter Hitchens, The American Spectator, September 2013.

Apparently there are “green jobs” after all, or at least “green grants”—in universities.

Academics supported Obamacare even more enthusiastically than Congress did.

At Accuracy in Academia and our big sister group Accuracy in Media we endeavor to give both of those institutions constructive criticism. Ergo, it amuses us to see them turn on each other.

College presidents seem blissfully unaware that they are living large at someone else’s expense.

“We benefit from bringing low skilled workers”  into the United States, Dartmouth economist Ethan Lewis claimed at the Cato Institute but admitted that “we may be raising inequality.”

A Harvard scholar has unearthed archival evidence of the relationship of Hollywood producers to the Nazi government in the 1930s but most scholars stop short of implicating Left-wing icons in chronicling the run-up to World War II.

Higher education may never be more irrelevant than when it tries hard to be relevant. In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berrett surveys a trio of seminars that await incoming freshmen at the University of Richmond (UR).

Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.

The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.

New regulations from the U. S. Department of Education (DOE) are threatening to cripple the First Amendment on American college campuses. Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is sending to the agency.