Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

It’s one thing when jaundiced observers such as your servant dissect higher education. It’s quite another when the dissection is done by insiders, particularly when they haven’t left their day jobs yet.

Academics pride themselves on dreaming up the cutting edge ideas that govern us. That might not be a good thing.

Accuracy in Academia has devoted considerable attention to policies and practices at Boston College that make the institution run by the Jesuit order of priests sometimes look “Catholic in name only.”

A noted left-wing writer actually found a Democrat he disapproves of. Naturally, the target of his angst has been dead for four years.

When Jimmy Carter made an unsuccessful bid for reelection as president, even Democrats couldn’t say for sure why they were voting for him. Nearly three decades later, he is treated as an elder statesman.

Although on the surface, studies of the singer Frank Sinatra seem to be emblematic of the frivolity of university offerings these days, there may actually be some value to this endeavor.

More than two centuries ago, patriots reacted to levies from the British Crown by, literally, throwing the Boston Tea Party. Now, in the new millennium, at least one professor is trying to reverse the inevitable result of that insurrection—in the very state in which the original rebellion occurred.

Scarcely a year goes by in which we do not see another documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American volunteers who traveled to Spain to fight on the side of the government there as it sought to repel the rebel army of Francisco Franco.

As the season approaches when we load up on Thin Mints, we might want to ask ourselves what happened to the group that sells them.

Accuracy in Academia lost a great friend with the passing of Troy University journalism professor Chris Warden, the author of AIA’s forthcoming textbook Voodoo Anyone?

With three semesters gone, the list of dubious academic achievements of 2008 is a long one but we will try to whittle it down.

The staff of Accuracy in Academia and campusreportonline.net wishes you and yours the Merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years!