When a student at Wesleyan wrote an op-ed in the student paper last month questioning whether the Black Lives Matter movement has had unintended consequences, protests erupted and the president spoke out, essentially, on the…
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Academia Ignores Best-Selling Authors C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien
Two authors who collectively have sold hundreds of millions of copies of their books decades after their deaths receive scant attention in academia. C.S. Lewis, according to Publisher’s Weekly, had sold 18 million copies by 2013….
The Other Side of Multiculturalism
It turns out that American students have something in common with their Latin American counterparts: They don’t learn anything good about America either. “In Latin America children are often exposed to the negative aspects of…
Academia’s Cynical Outreach Program
Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move may be more than just a bit calculated towards self-preservation. “The historiography of education is…
Is America a Nation of Immigrants?
Generations of students have been taught that we are a nation of immigrants but inquiring minds beg to differ. Well, actually, they don’t beg. “What we have never been is a nation of immigrants,” veteran…
Patriotism, Sí, Nationalism, No
A well-informed scholar recently made an important distinction between patriotism and nationalism. “Nationalism is an ideology that implies that there should be no political differences between inhabitants of a nation,” Dr. Steven Grosby of Clemson…
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Civics, but for Grown-Ups
Some professors are more rooted in reality than others. Unfortunately, they tend to be retired. “President Lincoln called on every mother to whisper words of liberty to every listening babe,” William B. Allen, a professor…
Hampshire College: Diversity without Depth?
As we noted in a previous post, when Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the United States to shun SAT scores as an admissions requirement, the school’s president waxed rhapsodic about…
The Cost of Common Core
It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association…
A World Without SATs
Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as an admissions requirement. The college’s president, Jonathan Last, waxed rhapsodic about the results of the…