Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

“I’ve had students say, ‘rights come from democracy,’ and I say, ‘No, democracy comes from your rights.’”—Charles Hill, senior lecturer at Yale University in a speech at the Heritage Foundation on November 17, 2011.

When a noted libertarian scholar concocted an economics quiz which conservatives passed and liberals failed, right-wingers who read it high-fived each other, figuratively speaking.

Perhaps one reason that American flags are harder to find on campus than off is that university officials fear that exposure to Old Glory might inspire students to engage in extreme behavior—like voting for the GOP.

It’s always awkward when a Catholic college or university invites a pro-choice speaker to lecture on campus, at least to Catholics outside of its gates.

One of many ways to gauge the political tilt of academia is to see how many cabinet members from past presidential administrations have obtained academic berths.

In academia, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure.

The gap between what academia promises and what it actually delivers is becoming ever more apparent by the day.

Because this writer has gratuitously boosted Penn State football coaching legend Joe Paterno in the past, it behooves him to do a 180-degree turn now and leading from the third-person makes the task a little easier.

A blogger at the American Enterprise Institute has suggested a set of principles to guide education reform. The problem is, well-intentioned and logical as they are, they  look a lot like No Child Left Behind.

Where once she called for accountability in elementary and secondary education, she now finds it abhorrent. Why the change?

The intersection of academia and government is one in which the interests of elites can collide with our own well-being.

“Within a discipline, professors count rather than read the publications of their colleagues who are up for tenure; and once one gets outside one’s field, no one dares quarrel with a record that contains enough articles in good enough journals that are widely enough cited.”—James R. Stoner, Jr., political science professor at Louisiana State University in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.