Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

“I will continue to write that the Republican Party should give up on those tactics that focus on voter suppression and find ways to appeal to black and brown voters instead.” Atlanta-Journal Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker at Harvard last year, ignoring the suppression of military ballots by the Obama Administration, many of them to “black and brown voters.”

Public figures who proclaim their fealty to the public good generally want to minimize their contact with the masses.

Two instructors from Colorado State University (CSU)  taught a course in which they encouraged incarcerated women to express themselves, specifically at a local jail and “a teen girls’ group at a residential youth and family rehabilitation center.”

For Lent, Catholics give something up. Perhaps academia could show some of the tolerance it gives itself credit for by easing up on the Catholic-bashing it engages in annually.

Youth, like age, hath its privileges, and one of them seems to be the right to not think too far ahead.

In the academic and political worlds in which our laws are incubated and passed, there is one statute scholars and politicos routinely ignore: the law of unintended consequences.

The latest study from the National Association of Scholars features 100 education reforms, including Accuracy in Academia’s.

Being a Republican In Name Only may be the kiss of death in GOP primaries but it’s a great selling point in academia.

When academics weigh in on social issues, they tend to get sociological.

“Academia doesn’t train how to do archival research or reward people for doing it.” Hershel Parker, professor of English, emeritus,…

Scientific genius Albert Einstein posited a theory, other than the scientific ones he is known for, that has withstood the test of time:  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If professors spent as much time entertaining information from the other side as they spend denouncing charges that the academy is biased, there would be no academic bias.