Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

When academics leave their Ivory Cocoon to share their thoughts with the rest of us, these forays show them to be so out of sync with reality that we can see why they usually keep their ruminations in the classroom where they can become make-or-break test questions or term papers.

Johns Hopkins University not only has a history with China but at least one notable communist sympathizer in its hall of famed scholars—Owen Lattimore, who whitewashed many of Mao Tse Tung’s earliest massacres in his official reports.

When Johns Hopkins University opened a branch in Mainland China did communist officials there acquire another propoganda arm?

When economists become politically active, they risk betraying their chosen academic field even as they promote their favorite political causes.

There is something about global warming that makes even the most credentialed academics who are on record with their devotion to critical thinking completely avoid that practice or apply it in odd ways when it comes to the alleged “greenhouse effect.”

One sure sign that academia is failing in its mission can be seen in the lack of understanding by the young of the toll taken by communist regimes around the world throughout the 20th Century, that continues to accumulate to this very day. “Ask college students, and I have, how many Stalin killed and you get the answer, ‘thousands,’” University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors said on June 12th at the Heritage Foundation. “That’s like saying Hitler killed hundreds of Jews.”

In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre and the call for more gun control and firearm-free zones, at least one economist is offering an independent analysis that is worth considering.

Along with supposedly beneficial small class sizes, another constant refrain of American education officials is that there is a teacher shortage in the United States.

One reason why politicians spend more time talking about education reform than actually engaged in it might be that they benefit greatly from the status quo.

Some social scientists seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the social sciences and hard science.

Although school administrators around the country are rushing a former vice-president’s cinematic debut onto classroom film projectors, some districts are holding out.

When the media and academia overlap in the United States, the result can be—a distorted picture of America. Journalistic icon Bill Moyers shared such a vision when he gave the commencement address at SMU.