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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Disabled by Definition

Looking for a job in a university English department? Come to the MLA convention and pitch an invented field of study and you’re in. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention.

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MLA Misinformation

English professors like to talk about current events and war for oil theories about Iraq, but rarely do they get their facts straight first. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

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Dead Whites Make Comeback

Despite founding standard English, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift are discussed sparingly in the Academy’s walls. From the Modern Language Association 2005 convention held in Washington, D.C.

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MLA Elements of Style

When English professors do talk about grammar at the Modern Language Association convention, it is to explain its irrelevance, not its necessity.

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MLA Abu Ghraib Fantasy

“The pleasure of romance novels sets us up to accept the violence and carnage of Abu Ghraib,” said Professor Teresa L. Ebert. From the 2005 Modern Language Association convention held in Washington, D.C.

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The Marxist Language Association

Current college classrooms resemble old-fashioned communist party cell meetings for a very good reason: They are run by the same type of people, no matter how cutting edge their output looks.

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Decomposition

The failure of schools from kindergarten through college to impart basic literacy skills is becoming so obvious that even academics are starting to acknowledge it.
From the 2005 Modern Language Association Conference, held in Washington, D.C.

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Al-Arian and the AAUP

Sami al-Arian gets off, despite overwhelming evidence of terrorist connections…thanks to the AAUP.

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Academic Being and Nothingness

It seems that the more money a university has to spend, the more they will learn about radical politics, socialism and sexual exploits.

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California Convergence

A diverse crowd is slated to speak at the Muslim Public Affairs Council conference that begins tomorrow in Long Beach, California.

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Georgia Tech Gulag

For those professors who hold un-politically correct views or who teach certain subjects, working in the Academe can be like a soviet prison.

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Dangerfield Conservatives

“The low point was a heckler calling me a ‘facist f**k.,’ then running out of the room—by mistake for him, into a closet,” Stein wrote in The American Spectator.