Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

When academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.

Public schools that clamp down on religious expression do so in the face of a stream of court decisions that uphold the rights of students and teachers to express themselves religiously, albeit with caveats.

Academics are trying out a new way to make peace with American icons, namely by turning them into liberals long after their death. Such seems to be Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professor Richard Halpern’s approach to the art of Norman Rockwell.

America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.

Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.

Health care administrators and those who teach them try to fathom the low esteem they are held in without much success.

The Ivory Triangle of media, academic and political elites who push America left is gearing up for another full court press to the port side.

Contrary to the old joke, a mugging does not automatically transform a liberal into a conservative.

This year, as ever, campuses nationwide are sponsoring or supporting May Day demonstrations on behalf of immigrants in America who may or may not be here legally. Federal officials charged with enforcing U. S. immigration law, meanwhile, are sending up their own distress signals.

While many reacted to the Virginia Tech massacre with calls for more gun control, an NYU sociologist put the blame on the failure of schools in the “socialization” of student bodies.

The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that public schools in Oklahoma aren’t making any gains.

While global warming alarmists, including some initial backers of a certain former U. S. Vice President’s Oscar-winning documentary, are jumping off the climate change express, high schools are increasingly hopping aboard this environmental bandwagon.