Perspectives Like Betsy DeVos, Governor Scott Walker was Once Blocked from Entering a School Malcolm A. Kline March 2, 2017 He may have lost his bid for the Republican presidential nomination last year, but Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker remains the…
Perspectives Illegal Border Crossings are Down 50% Malcolm A. Kline Since the media and academia are not that interested in crimes committed by illegal aliens, it is hard to get…
Perspectives Power Poses Shortcircuited Malcolm A. Kline February 17, 2017 Some theories are so stupid that you can tell at the outset that elites will embrace them: Amy Cuddy’s thesis…
Perspectives Scholar: America’s Constitution isn’t about “Inventing New Rights” Malcolm A. Kline February 8, 2017 Don’t expect the Senate hearings on prospective Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to get into the question of natural law,…
Perspectives Have Law Schools Doomed SCOTUS? Malcolm A. Kline February 7, 2017 Here’s why good Supreme Court justices, or, for that matter, attorneys in general, let alone attorneys general, are going to…
MLA MLA Vocabulary Contest Malcolm A. Kline January 31, 2017 There is at least one way in which the Modern Language Association (MLA) that thousands of English professors belong to…
MLA Workers of Berkeley Unite! Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2017 Now here’s a man-bites-dog story: Labor strife at Berkeley. Janitorial, custodial and cafeteria workers at Berkeley are fighting to maintain…
MLA Hidden in Plain Sight: Genuine Scholarship at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 27, 2017 In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to…
MLA Black Lives Matter Street Theater at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 25, 2017 At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia this year, we got to see some of the “Creative…
Perspectives From MLA to Women’s March: Remedial Revolutionaries Malcolm A. Kline January 24, 2017 As we saw from interviews with students at last weekend’s protests, higher education, and lower, probably need to spend more…
MLA MLA-BDS Aftermath: A Star Is Born Malcolm A. Kline January 23, 2017 Just as political careers are often launched from electoral defeats, so too do academic careers blossom when Left wing movements…
Perspectives Another Election Winner: Academic Who Called It Malcolm A. Kline January 20, 2017 Not everybody made a lousy prediction on this year’s election results. In introducing Penn Professor David Eisenhower at the University…