Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Catholic Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry welcomes visitors to its campus with a statue of Gandhi. Has the Church run out of saints?

Catholic high school graduates hoping to continue their education in institutions of higher learning affiliated with the Mother Church might be surprised by what they find.

Princeton “spent $136 million on a new 500-bed dorm, or $277,000 per bed, which is more than $70,000 more than the current median home price.”—Andrew Gillen, A Tuition Bubble: Lessons from the Housing Bubble (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)

What you heard about soda taxes as a cure for obesity comes from an academic.

Colleges and universities are promising graduates “green jobs” at the end of their education, secure in the knowledge that if they fail to materialize, schools won’t be liable for damages under Truth in Advertising laws.

Believe it or not, a Berkeley sociologist recently offered a surprisingly clear-eyed and coherent assessment of Communist China.

There is at least one academic who understands the roots of the current financial crisis in the United States. Maybe that is because, unlike most pedagogues, he came from the business world.

“We may obsess about strangers piloting airplanes into our buildings, but in the United States in any year, roughly five times the number of those killed in the World Trade Center are murdered on the streets or inside their own homes and offices.”—UCLA historian Russell Jacoby.

“Equally important, the memoir documents Obama’s reading of such canonical African-American writers as Frank Marshall Davis…” –Boston University English professor Gene Andrew Jarrett on the presidential memoir that identifies the scribe as “Frank the poet”

One startling development obscured by partisan battles over union contracts in Wisconsin and New Jersey is the degree to which high-profile Democrats have also been going toe-to-toe with teachers unions, a key bloc in their political base.

Expect the education community to be up in arms over attempts by House Republicans to scale back college grant programs, but don’t expect their charges to be all that accurate.

College professors love to talk about how vital their work is in a democracy but some high-profile administrators have actively sought and received donations from rulers in one-party states without a peep of protest from their star faculty members.