Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

After last year’s presidential election, most of us adjusted to a change of political parties and administrations in the White…

If politics makes strange bedfellows, what does academia make?

So many unanswered questions, like why didn’t he go to one of the thousands of universities where he’d fit right in?

This question has plagued me since I first heard people introducing themselves as political scientists.

Teachers attempt to teach their students about the evils of Anti-Semitism when swastikas appear on campus. Who gets disciplined? The teachers.

For about a century, intellectuals, especially those who teach, have been looking for philosopher kings. When the objects of their affections turn out to be thugs, they rarely admit it.

It’s not just NFL attendance that’s plummeting.

If you take a knee in Texas, you better be in a church.

It turns out that actions still have consequences, albeit updated ones.

When professors join in the fun, as happened recently at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, it may well tip the balance, for better or for worse.

When old established universities opened branch campuses abroad in the first decade of this century, the education press was full of glowing coverage generated by university press releases but the news from abroad has slowed to a trickle, and it’s not because nothing is happening there.

After student protests rocked the campus of the University of Missouri in 2015, student enrollment has dropped significantly.