Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

In a recent study, academic economists with impressive credentials put their collective talents to work to determine what the average sports fan has learned over a lifetime of pursuing that hobby.

We’ve actually found a rare academic species—a conservative law school professor.

Abroad and at home, on campus and off, the Muslim Brotherhood is an increasingly visible, yet enigmatic, presence in the world.

“Paul Krugman​ , the former Enron advisor whose work in the media-academia-government nexus puts him as far away from normal Americans as one can be while still living in America.” .”—

Former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn

“Austan Goolsbee​—the name alone tells you that he was Skull and Bones.”—

Former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn

Apparently the days of students working their way through school at McDonald’s drive-through window are just about numbered.

In case you were wondering, a writer for American School magazine gave a helpful guide to the way that generations break down these days. According to Kerry L. Roberts:

“The apparent fear that so many young people have of ever being quiet enough to listen to the narrator in their heads and hear what it is saying, is thoroughly dysfunctional.”— Adam Garfinkle, Editor of The American Interest magazine, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute forum on “Teaching the Middle East: Between Authoritarianism and Reform,” held October 15-16, 2011.

If colleges and universities look hopelessly bureaucratic from the outside, the view from inside is even worse.

“The University of Central Florida is one of more than 30 colleges the Internal Revenue Service has been auditing to see whether they have paid enough taxes on profits earned through advertising, special events and other commercial activities.”— Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel,  December 10, 2011

The governor of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, got a first-hand taste of what college life is like for conservative students on a foray into an Ames, Iowa coffee shop.

The authors who are read most widely are those who are no longer around. Former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn pays homage to a quartet of them in his latest book, Blue Collar Intellectuals.