The president’s “compromise” on regulations connected with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has impressed academics but not anyone who knows anything about how insurance works.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
All Sex Is Local
Arguably, this is where the issue of sex education belongs.
Antidote to Anti-Catholic Tyranny
In his new book, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, author Jonah Goldberg delivers a more full-throated defense of Catholicism than students are likely to get in many Jesuit universities.
Academia’s for-profit Angst
While the academic world is overwhelmingly either non-profit or attached to state and local governments, left-leaning academics are warning of the danger of the relatively tiny for-profit sector in higher education.
Social Justice Bill of Rights
“A ‘social justice bill of rights’ might begin, ‘Government must provide…” a home, car, job, French bulldog puppy, whatever.”—Jonah Goldberg , The Tyranny of Cliché`s.
Biased Campuses & Free Pizza
Biased Campuses & Free Pizza
How biased are the campuses?
A debate between
John K. Wilson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
&
Mal Kline, Executive Director, Accuracy in Academia (AIA)
Thursday
June 14, 2012
6-8 PM
The Van Andel Center
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, D. C.
The event is free for all Capitol Hill and Washington, D. C. –area interns but please R. S. V. P. mal.kline@academia.org or call (202)364-3085 so that we can get a head count for food..
This event is part of The Frank A. Fusco Conservative University Lecture Series this year, made possible by a generous grant from The Frank A. Fusco and Nelly Goletti Fusco Foundation.
Message In A Bottle
“So the question is, Can the ideas stand on their own merit regardless of who said them? It could be Kaczynski, it could be Mother Teresa, it could be Mr. Anonymous—the ideas are what they are, and the arguments are what they are. So I think from a rational standpoint we should say we can treat the ideas in abstraction from the circumstances in which they appear.”—David F. Skrbina, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan
Self-Selected Elites
“Unfortunately, the idea that a small, enlightened elite should guide the ignorant people to what is good for them, even at the cost of misleading them, has become more prevalent in America.”—Luigi Zingales, a professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago.
Castro’s Useful American Students
For years we have reported on professors who brag that they have done something worthwhile by taking their students to Cuba.
Academic Study Scores Obama
As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia.