Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

A friend of Accuracy in Academia has been fired from her correspondent’s post at the Chronicle of Higher Education for daring to criticize the field of “Black Studies.”

It turns out that the author of A Beautiful Mind has an impressive intellect as well.

Occasionally, you actually do get some unique insights from academia, unique to academia anyway.

The educational elite still remains unmoved by the prospect of radical Islamic Shariah law even as manifestations of it pop up in the United States.

Tolerance of Catholic tradition may be in short supply at Jesuit Georgetown, but other denominations might find more of a big tent there, even the more extreme elements of these “other faith traditions.”

When literature professors branch out into other fields, the result can be bizarre.

The decades-long push to make English Departments more relevant has only succeeded in marginalizing them.

Evidently the publicity that  surrounded the removal of team mascot Chief Illiniwek five years ago  only whetted the University of Illinois’ appetite for more controversy.

Georgetown, a Jesuit university which refuses to provide contraceptive coverage in accordance with its catholic designation, is inviting as a speaker the federal official who is most determined to make them do so—U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

Perhaps because their own financial needs are so well taken care of, most professors seldom explore a topic of consuming interest to those of us outside campus walls.

“Why is it that the language of allegory, once generally understood by our culture as a whole, has been banished from our nation’s sacred sites so completely that one needs to spot naïve roadside memorials to find unambiguous statements of grief and love?”— Michael J. Lewis, the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams

Pro-life students often find themselves to be a beleaguered lot, and not just on Catholic campuses.