Occasionally, academics make more sense than either journalists or politicians.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Church and State Selectivity
While the “separation of Church and State” crowd has been noticeably mum on the opening of charter schools such as the Kahil Gibran Academy in Brooklyn, the efforts of other religions can still provoke their ire.
Public School Pedophilia
If a Catholic priest, or, for that matter, any cleric, abuses his position in pursuit of carnal knowledge, expect the story to get front-page treatment. When a public school employee tries to improve his love life by hitting on students, no matter how young, you can find the story covered in…three paragraphs at the bottom of page 19.
Waking the Board
When awake, trustees on university boards tend to be more Republican than professors.
Elementary Ed Wood
Wherever he is, long-deceased underground filmmaker Ed Wood must feel vindicated. When he was alive, Wood’s arena—transexualism—was considered outside the mainstream. Now, it is the mainstream, at least in public schools.
Comic Book Culture
In a day and age in which college standards have dropped so low that it is possible to graduate from a name university without having read a book, a course on “Comics and Culture” might seem apropos but that irony is lost on the creators of the Juniata College course.
An Inconvenient University
Believe it or not, environmental regulations, whether of the top-down government variety or the self-directed sort, have not been all that easy for environmentally conscious colleges and universities either.
Animal Law
Who knew how prescient the 1978 frat house film comedy Animal House would be? Now we have an animal law school.
Summer of Love Saps
Tenured professors remember the Summer of Love as if they could ever forget or would let their hapless students have a memory lapse about their favorite year.
Avoiding Academia=Greatness
There is probably a reason that the higher education establishment does not seek a second opinion on its efforts. Educators are very likely not to like what they are liable to hear.
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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