Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Although at first blush, polls seem to show that the youth vote mirrors that of society in general, a closer look at changing attitudes among college freshmen shows that they may be, as the liberals used to say, “a product of their environment.”

Academics conclude that China is not quite the threat it has been presumed to be, though hardly benign. Boston College political scientist Robert Ross reminded a Capitol Hill audience recently that China surpassed the United States as the number one trading partner of both Taiwan and South Korea in 2001.

The roster of lectures at George Washington University is about as balanced as an MSNBC broadcast.

The UN warns that illiteracy is a global problem but Americans may not have to look that far to find it.

Believe it or not, a Republican president may be benefiting from some revisionist history.  Indeed, the academic literature on George Herbert Walker Bush, although brief, like his presidency, is mostly, so far, laudatory.

Like Brittney Spears and Madonna or Tiger Woods and a groupie, Sociology and Pornography had to meet, and on the stomping grounds of the former field of study. Wesleyan just approved a forum—Sociology 420—entitled Pornocopia: Society and Pornography.

For the past two decades, the ever-rising tens of millions of uninsured have become an accepted premise of America’s political and academic elites but they may be as overcounted as the 57 stars on the U. S. flag.

There is such a disconnect between what colleges and universities offer and what students need that even professors are starting to notice.

In Boston, an English professor is trying to sell his class on society’s collective guilt when said students are already believers in personal responsibility.

For about a half a century, the U. S. Defense Department has been feeding the hand that bites it.

Before reading between the lines, you should learn to read the actual sentences that make up those bridges. Unfortunately, too often they are bridges to nowhere.

What can courts do that most Catholic colleges can’t? Take their employees off the job when they have a conflict of interest.