MLA Mugging Melville Malcolm A. Kline January 11, 2017 One of the speakers at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting brought up a fascinating quote by William Wordsworth…
MLA Humanities PhDs: Write if you find work Malcolm A. Kline January 10, 2017 You might be surprised to learn that there are employment opportunities for college graduates with PhDs in the Humanities. You…
Perspectives New Year’s at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline December 29, 2016 While you’re getting started on your New Year’s resolutions, we’re knocking one off of our own bucket list: We’ll be…
Perspectives Trump Derangement Syndrome 101: A Primer Malcolm A. Kline December 13, 2016 College professors and their minions lost a presidential election for the first time in eight years and don’t know how…
Perspectives BDS Boycotts Geography Malcolm A. Kline November 18, 2016 It really is a shame that geography is no longer taught in schools: It might make life easier for left-wing…
MLA, Perspectives Fyodor We Hardly Knew Ya Malcolm A. Kline February 5, 2016 The Modern Language Association (MLA) gave new meaning to the term “in-depth study” at the annual MLA convention in Austin,…
MLA, Perspectives Getting to Know Goethe Malcolm A. Kline February 4, 2016 Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors…
Perspectives American Colleges Ignore Violence Against Jewish Students in Israel and the U.S. Jeff Robbins February 3, 2016 Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in The Observer and appears courtesy of the author and the Louis D. Brandeis…
MLA, Perspectives Aging at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is…
MLA, Perspectives PHOTOS: Book Gallery at the Left-Wing MLA Spencer Irvine January 31, 2016 We took a look around the exhibit hall at the convention center, where left-wing professors talked to book publishers and…
MLA, Perspectives From Stalinist Russia, With Love Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2016 In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched…
MLA, Perspectives Disabling Dickens Malcolm A. Kline January 29, 2016 Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and…
