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.
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Academics Investigate Priestly Abuse

A team of academics examined “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests, 1950-2010, but stopped short of doing just that.

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Montgomery County Meltdown

A school district in Montgomery County, Maryland, that is rated highly by the National School Boards Association (NSBA)  has failed to make the grade with the public which it serves.

Current Wisdom

Under No Flags

“The idea of people owing allegiance to one country, that’s not very common in the world today.”—Margaret Stock, adjunct instructor, University of Alaska-Anchorage, at the Center for American Progress, May 11, 2011.

Faculty Lounge

Crazy Like a Foxx

At least one congressional representative is not prepared to give higher education a blank check, probably because she worked in it.

Faculty Lounge

Apostasy on the Left

Although she still considers herself a liberal, veteran journalist Claudia Dreifus found out just how intolerant the Left can be when she critiqued one of their totems in the book she co-authored, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It.

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Curious Tenure Poster Boy

A veteran professor offered up an odd example of the benefits of tenure in a conference here in Washington, D. C. this week.

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Rosy Scenario 101

Academics love to forecast. For the sake of college graduates, let’s hope their latest one proves to be more warranted than now seems possible.

Faculty Lounge

Confucius Makes A Comeback

One of the lesser known policies of the era of Mao Tse Tung was the relegation of Confucianism to the memory hole in Communist China. Lately, Confucius has been making a reappearance there, according to an historian from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Hot Off The Presses

Class warfare may have little appeal to the masses but academics, who are mostly in the upper class,  can’t get enough of it.

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Creating an Evolutionary Bias

A pair of professors from Penn State found out that most high school teachers do not teach evolution as a proven scientific fact and the duo don’t like it one bit.