Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

After making the rounds of conferences given by groups such as the Modern Language Association, this correspondent found the seniors’ theses of recent Thomas Aquinas College graduates a refreshing counterpoint.

You can find out what the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) may not want you to know about it at an Accuracy in Academia author’s night on July 18^, 2012, at which free food will be available.

“In the surreal world of student loans, the brilliant student completing an electrical engineering degree at M.I.T. pays the same interest rate as the student majoring in ethnic studies at a state university who has a GPA below 2.0.”—Ohio University economist Richard Vedder

“No child who goes to these schools should get through them without being humiliated.”—Charles Murray on the state of higher education in remarks at the Fordham Institute, June 26, 2012.

“Thwarting banditry is a positive good.” Jacksonville State University economist Christopher Westley

“The Air Force suspended a 20-year-old class on ‘Just War Theory’ because it included scriptural references”—Tony Perkins, the Family Research Council.

“In reality, the state does nothing else but redistribute and serve its own purposes.”— Deepak Lal at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.

Nonetheless, a look at the relatively tiny proportion of academia made up of for-profit colleges reveals a trend in the opposite direction.

Like his peers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hassan Melehy is quite incensed at the efforts of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

In attempting to supplement the historical record, the editors of Rethinking Schools run the risk of obscuring it.

Jeff Dyche, now a psychologist at James Madison University, experienced culture shock during his stint at the U. S. Air Force Academy (AFA).

The country is in such rough shape that even academics are starting to notice.