Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

For years the word truth was usually preceded by the definite article. Now, at least politically and academically–and they often overlap, it is getting other modifiers.

How does your state score?

This time when they told him not to let politics interfere with his professional duties, they actually attached punishments.

A lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin warns that the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could have an adverse affect on affirmative action, even though the recently minted justice has never ruled on an affirmative action case.

Christine Fair, the Georgetown political scientist who wished death and dismemberment upon the Republican half of the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee over their support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has been placed on “research leave” by Georgetown University. Maybe she’ll learn something.

But is the university practicing guilt by accusation?

Political activists at Scripps College made the mistake of scheduling an anti-Kavanaugh rally on Monday, then sheepishly had to postpone it.

If the name of the new course at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana wasn’t clear enough, the progenitors of it leave no doubt where it is heading.

Let’s see what happens, what form it takes, and how long it lasts.

A trio of writers with credentials who managed to place dubious articles in academic journals are already being dismissed by academics attempting to downplay the prank.

Colorado State University recently published a new social media guide for its students and organizations.

And that can’t make many people at the University of Texas at Austin happy.