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Non-Fiction Political
David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin take us inside
twelve major universities where radical agendas have been
institutionalized and scholarly standards abandoned. The
schools they examine are not the easily avoided bottom of
the barrel. Rather, they are an all-too-representative
sampling of American higher education today.
Horowitz and
Laksin have conducted the first comprehensive, in-depth,
multiyear investigation of what is being taught in colleges
and universities across the country–public to private, from
large state schools to elite Ivy League institutions. They
have systematically scrutinized course catalogs, reading
lists, professors’ biographies, scholarly records, and the
first-person testimonies of students, administrators, and
faculty. Citing more than 150 specific courses, they reveal
how academic standards have been violated and demonstrate
beyond dispute that systematic indoctrination in radical
politics is now an integral part of the liberal arts
curriculum of America’s colleges. The extreme ideological
cant that today’s students are being fed includes:
•
Promoting Marxist approaches as keys to understanding human
societies–with no mention of the bloody legacy of these
doctrines and total collapse in the real world of the
societies they created
• Instilling the idea that
racism, brutally enforced by a “white male patriarchy” to
oppress people of color and other marginalized groups, has
been the organizing principle of American society throughout
its history and into the present
• Requiring students
to believe that gender is not a biological characteristic
but a socially created aspect of human behavior designed by
men to oppress women
• Persuading students that America
and Israel are “imperialistic” and “racist” states and that
the latter has no more right to exist than the South African
regime in the days of apartheid
In page after
shocking page, Horowitz and Laksin demonstrate that
America’s colleges and universities are platforms for a
virulent orthodoxy that threatens academic ideals and
academic freedom. In place of scholarship and the
dispassionate pursuit of truth that have long been the
hallmarks of higher learning, the new militancy embraces
activist zealotry and ideological fervor. In disturbingly
large segments of today’s universities, students are no
longer taught how to think but are told what to think.
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