Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

In the 1930s, marathons and amateur contests allowed beleaguered Americans to literally sing and dance through the Depression. In this economic downturn, the Lumina Foundation urges suffering Americans to go back to school.

When it comes to genuine crises, the elites are usually the last to know.

“At least Nixon didn’t spend his retirement advising his party to have more Watergate scandals.” W. James Antle III, in The American Conservative, on the re-emergence of former President George W. Bush.

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention.

Like colleges and universities of old, it its own way, Duke is trying to act “in loco parentis” with an emphasis on the loco part.

At a time when most people pick out pine trees, many English professors make plans to travel to the annual convention of the Modern Language Association.

With remedial education becoming more of a trend on college campuses every year and employers complaining that new hires lack basic skills, public schools are naturally pursuing grants that will prepare students for environmental activism.

Taxpayers may not have much reason to feel bailed out and stimulated but university officials do.

In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources.

A key dividing line between those within the Ivory Tower and those without might be on the issue of taxes: Academics like them while the rest of us clearly don’t.

The Associated Press might actually be onto something in its education coverage.

“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”—Fidel Castro, September 8, 2010, interview in The Atlantic