Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

How can a deep blue campus go purple? By a statistical fluke.

For once, a  left-wing speaker on the college lecture circuit got heckled and by a most unusual heckler.

Berkeley prof bemoans phantom budget cuts.

“Americans are not only against government spending in the abstract but against each particular instance of it in the last two years.”—Claremont McKenna scholar William Voegeli at Hillsdale College Capitol Hill lunch on October 1, 2010

In even-numbered years, political science professors are frequently called upon by the media to offer their thoughts on national elections, although they may not be as well-versed as they should be on history, of even the more recent variety.

The president just expanded the U. S. Department of Education by executive order.

The president’s favorite think tank wants to improve teacher quality but is less clear about how its proposals differ from policies already in place.

Stung by a spate of recent documentaries on public schools, the education establishment is trying to rebut the filmmakers’ charges.

Americans may still see the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) as an apolitical group but the group’s leader has acknowledged a marked change in the GSA.

Researchers are scratching their heads over the massive number of college dropouts.

In his recent foray to George Washington University, the president and his hosts pretty much dropped all pretexts of above-the-fray statesmanship and detached scholarship.

“I’m looking for a Ronald Reagan in 2012. I’ve lived through the 1970s.”—

George Washington University professor Henry Nau at the Heritage Foundation on September 30, 2010.