Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Oddly, those academics who most cherish their academic freedom seem just as intent on exercising it secretly.

A pair of professors objected to our coverage of them at the Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting in Boston this year. Near as we can figure out, what they objected to was the fact that we covered them.

Stopped clocks can be right twice a day. So can academics. But in neither case can they tell the difference between AM and PM.

“The increasing favoritism shown by ostensibly elected or revolutionary heads of state in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt to their immediate…

Ayn Rand does provide much fodder for academics.

Thus does a student characterize the law of the land in Dubai.

The culture you get at cultural meetings nowadays is of the popular variety.

If you want to know what academics admire most in each other, spend some time listening to them share their enthusiasms.

At the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2013 meeting in Boston, a professor claimed the existence of a “textbook describing slavery as a TransAtlantic trade triangle” but when asked to provide a title, she offered none.

While the move to make English the official language in the United States grows throughout the U. S., some academics regret that it is the first one in America.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been called many things but he may soon become a business ethics course. Kathleen V. Willis of Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus, is exploring the possibility of doing so.

At the 2013 Modern Language Association meeting of English professors in Boston, nary a word was spoken against the president. Yet and still, one of his policies came in for some surprising criticism.