“Why is it that the language of allegory, once generally understood by our culture as a whole, has been banished from our nation’s sacred sites so completely that one needs to spot naïve roadside memorials to find unambiguous statements of grief and love?”— Michael J. Lewis, the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Pro-Lifers Under Siege
Pro-life students often find themselves to be a beleaguered lot, and not just on Catholic campuses.
AFL-CIO College Closes
Is that a metaphor?
Academics Break Ranks
Two law school professors recently broke with prevailing academic orthodoxies to declare that states requiring doctor’s to share information from ultrasounds with patients contemplating abortions were acting legally.
Lawn-Mowing Myth
“There is a myth that low-skilled immigration is good for the economy and yet in areas where there are no low-skilled workers, their laws get mowed and the dishes in their restaurants get cleaned.”—Barry Chiswick, George Washington University economist at the Cato Institute on April 26, 2012
Freedom Of Association Challenged
John K. Wilson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) objects to the efforts of the Tennessee assembly to affirm the freedom of association of Christian groups.
Finally, A Useful Degree
While Creative Writing majors are serving coffee and college graduates who majored in various species of “studies” are occupying Wall Street, K Street or any other venue where they can pitch a tent, some institutions are actually offering degrees in fields that look more promising.
Government Regulation Avoidance 101
Government regulation in the United States rarely achieves the desired effect but does provide new outlets for financial sleight-of-hand, a Carnegie_Mellon economist shows.
Wrong Side of Charles
Mitt Romney also went to Harvard, though he spent most of his time on what the intellectuals consider to be the wrong side of the Charles, where the business school is found.—UVA historian James Ceaser
Inverse Value
“The value of an industry is inversely proportional to the number of awards it gives itself”— humorist and blogger David Burge