Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Seattle, WA—  At academic conferences, you can get a pretty good idea of trends in higher education not only from the presentations of tenured professors but also from the offerings of Ph.D. candidates.

Though we consider ourselves to have made progress about gender and sexuality, there are still only two public categories to which one can belong.—Jeffrey J. Williams, professor of English and literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University.

“I did not understand—and failed to do the necessary research on—how the nonacademic work force operated, what its expectations were,…

Seattle, WA—  One of the remarkable things about college today is the degree to which professors and students engage in activity, that for the cost of admission, they could pursue off campus for next to nothing.

As is our custom here at Accuracy in Academia, we are kicking off the new year by bonding with thousands of English professors from around the country and around the world at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention.

Whether he wins the Iowa Caucuses or not, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has apparently hit a raw nerve in higher education.

For example, the success of the John Tracy Clinic shows us one possible way to deal with failing public schools: Avoid them.

If free-market economist Milton Friedman could see what is happening at the University of Chicago—his home base for many years—the late Nobel laureate would probably turn over in his grave several times.

We found another rarity: an academic who defends Reaganomics.

A trio of academics have done a great service (yes, you read that here) in doing what few, if any, VIPs in our nation’s capital will do, namely, pointing up the negative effects of China’s economic policies.

Once again, American elites agitated for a revolution abroad, then looked upon the achievement of same as the last word on the subject.

With unemployment at record levels, guess what academic economists from coast to coast are devoting their energies to studying?