Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.
Ridiculous Item

Rainy Day Republicans

Further proof that academics have way too much time on their hands: a study from Harvard connecting Fourth of July celebrations to Republican voting patterns.

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Columbia’s Inner Circle

Accuracy in Academia’s sister organization, Accuracy in Media, has covered one-quarter of the faculty at the Columbia University School of Journalism and found them wanting.

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Rainy Day Republicans

Further proof that academics have way too much time on their hands: a study from Harvard connecting Fourth of July celebrations to Republican voting patterns.

Current Wisdom

Natural Law Conclusion

“The growth of the new international law is the perfect logical culmination of 50 years’ worth of bad ideas from legal academia.”—attorney Walter Olson in his book Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America.

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Federal Speech Codes

 

The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.

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Cognitive Dissonance on Conservatism

Since they don’t really want to encounter any, academics keep striking out when they attempt to figure out conservatives. Berkeley’s George Lakoff is the latest scholar to miss the boat, and the dock is getting crowded.

Faculty Lounge

Degrees as Parole Fodder

While insider and outsiders debate the value of a college degree in today’s market, one criminal attorney has found a surprising utility for a college education: It can help you get parole.

Book Reviews

A World Without Tenure

A new book shows us examples of colleges and universities where tenure does not exist and students and faculty alike survive and even thrive.

Faculty Lounge

History Leaping Forward

At least one academic is acknowledging the genocide of China’s communist dictator Mao Tse Tung but not the scale of the chairman’s atrocities.