Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

When he bolted the GOP in 2009, former U. S. Senator Arlen Specter, R-PA, may have jeopardized his political future but he insured himself of an academic berth, should he fancy one.

The protracted wake for Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the ultimate contrarian scribe, continues. Too many people have too many great memories that beg to be recorded.

The people who claim the greatest fealty to the first amendment are more than likely to vote for U. S. presidents who do not have a very high regard for the entire Constitution.

Children’s books have clearly come a long way from Curious George and the Little Golden Books but new does not necessarily mean improved.

It drops further every year.

Rethinking Occupation

“In New Mexico, student and other activists in Alburquerque decided to alter the ‘occupy’name out of respect for the area’s indigenous communities, which have been forcibly occupied for centuries.”—Rethinking Schools magazine, Winter 2011-2012

“When the leadership in a field threatens careers if one does anything to help the U. S. Army better understand cultures and peoples in order to conduct the most precise, effective, and moral warfare it is no wonder that few anthropologists find the fortitude to cross the party line.”—Dan G. Cox, associate professor of political science at the School of Advanced Military Studies.

The presence of students in the Occupy movement has become more well-documented by the day, but the degree to which their professors have goaded them to take part in it has received much less attention.

Offering observations on it from the faculty lounge itself provokes even more indignation.

Believe it or not, yet another university has been accused of deception in a transaction with a citizen.

Forty-four scholars signed onto an open letter critical of former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and former U. S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) but a look at the signatories raises more questions about them than about the presidential candidates.

On the face of it, Democratic President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top education policy is cheaper for American taxpayers than Republican President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind.