Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
MLA Guide to World War II
The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.
MLA Gets Even More Political
If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Global Warming on Ice
Environmentally conscious undergrads beware: some of the same people warning of the dangers of global warming now were predicting an ice age back in the 1970s.
Feeding Biting Hands
Outside of Hollywood, there can be no greater holdout from the Republican message than the Ivory Tower, yet the information trickling out of surveys and studies shows that it did not come up short in the controversial practice of earmarking federal funds that the congressional elephants became associated with.
ROTC Phobia
Tomorrow’s military leaders do not necessarily face a cakewalk through college.
Identity Crisis in Higher Education
Most schools spend more time on the politics of identity than do transgendered transvestites.
Head Shot Hegemony
AIA executive director Mal Kline’s hairline leaves left-wing bloggers fractured.
NCLB Safety
Public school parents might be less than assured when they hear about the clarity with which the federal government defines safety under the No Child Left Behind law.
Speech Codes Forever
You would think that a policy that both liberals and conservatives find abhorrent would cease to exist.