Clearly we have to reach beyond academia if we want to reclaim our history. “Calvin Coolidge had four percent growth which candidates today only talk about as a goal,” Amity Shlaes, the former Wall Street…
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
A Man Called Adam Smith
If the Left thinks of Adam Smith at all, it is probably as a profile on neckties worn by their bete noires on the right, but genuine liberals might find him a worthy subject of…
Academic Problem with Polls
When academics point out the problems with polls, they might wind up trying to regulate them. “Because one of the things I want to say about public opinion polls is that they are the child…
Silver Linings to Student Meltdowns
The bad news is that student protestors today are more openly totalitarian than demonstrators of the 1960s. The good news: They’re less destructive. “At the University of Kansas, where I graduated, students torched the…
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Clinging to Questionable Statistics
Academia is supposed to be a place in which scholars pursue inquiries. Perhaps more academics should have inquiring minds. “One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in…
Academic Free Speech Freefall
It is one of the many ironies of our modern age that one of the places that the first amendment is designed to benefit—the academy—is so maladroit in using it. “What, exactly, is the tension…
Late-Term Abortions through Academic Eyes
Of three professors who recently testified before a congressional hearing on late-term abortions, two actually looked at it from the baby’s perspective. “There is no reason to believe that a born infant would feel pain…
Common Core: Show Me the Money
It turns out that Common Core’s creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding’s character demonstrated in the film Jerry Maguire when he said, “Show me the money.” “An undercover journalist for a nonprofit…
School Choice Round-Up
There is good news and bad from the states on school choice, as compiled by the Heartland Institute in its School Reform News. First, the bad news: “A Minnesota family choosing to educate their child…
Multicultural Lesson from Guatemala
The frightening thing about looking at schools in other countries is that you can see where our own education is going. At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, Gloria Alvarez of the National Civic Movement…