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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Socially Engineering A Depression

Unemployment may be at record levels but academics are doing their level best to diversify a dwindling work force.

Faculty Lounge

NEA Myth Goes South

When members of your local teacher’s union tell you they can teach better if you pay them more, ask them to respond to a new study from Vanderbilt University, not exactly a free market hot bed.

Faculty Lounge

China On The Brink

Hong Bing Yuan, “Chinese exile, novelist, philosopher and law professor,” shared his less-than-sanguine thoughts on the Dragon at Pepperdine.

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Defining Dominance Down

For some reason, groups that gain the most in clout look upon themselves as put upon, literally.

Current Wisdom

An Exceptional People’s Constitution

“As long as ‘We the People’ revere our Constitution it cannot harm our national interest, because the Constitution is our national interest, the very content of our Exceptionalism.”—University of Pennsylvania historian Walter A. McDougall at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on July 27, 2010.

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Teachable Moments from Facebook

For some reason, some college administrators don’t seem to think that Mafia Wars and Farmville are very scholarly activities.

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We Read The Constitution

This weekend the U. S. Constitution might be read more frequently in the United States than it has been in American public schools in the past half century.

Faculty Lounge

A Primer On Sharpton

Inquiring minds want to know if the U. S. Department of Education considered an Al Sharpton rally an educational experience.

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Decades Late, Dollars Short

There is an old Pennsylvania Dutch proverb that goes, “We grow too soon old and too late smart.” Some colleges still have a youthful outlook.