Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

“And the country I was born in had no meaningful civil liberty tradition whatsoever: Canada!”— Donald Alexander Downs, Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on accepting the Bradley Foundation’s Jeane Kirkpatrick prize at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The unprecedented exodus of appointees from a Democratic presidential administration to the Ivory Tower continues unabated.

Apparently, the lack of professionalism among college grads is so acute that even their professors are starting to notice.

St. John’s University President “describes himself as a ‘Brooklyn guy,’ suggesting a naivete about the high-rolling lives of Saudi princes…

Although universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.

A government watchdog group has criticized at least one federal education scholarship program.

Academia has to be the one sector in American life over the past half century in which the portions have become diluted while the costs have gone through the roof.

Author M. Stanton Evans got an early lesson in his law of inadequate paranoia: “No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them you find that they are a lot worse.”

When academics attempt to understand conservatism, they prove the wisdom of that old adage: Never let college interfere with your…

Apparently, we’re living in the age of bubbles—housing, financial, etc. The only thing they don’t have is their own reality show. The next one is about to burst all over the legal profession.

Perhaps today’s “thought leaders” would think more clearly if they spent more time studying the thinkers of the past.

“Every radical movement of the Twentieth Century was a triumph of the will over reason.”—Paul Rahe, professor of History, Hillsdale…