Glazov: OK, let’s turn to your new book now, Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom. Tell us what it is about and the journey that led to it.
David Horowitz: First it’s about how our universities are being turned into training camps for the anti-American, anti-capitalist left, and what can be done about it. Second, it’s about what happens to someone who attempts to get professors to present more than one side of a controversial argument which they consider important to their political agendas. Such a person is turned into a demon who needs to be tarred and feathered, driven from decent society and just plain eliminated from any discussion. This is a book that demonstrates that people whom conservatives insist on calling “liberals” are actually totalitarians who cannot abide a dissenting voice in the room.
Well, maybe a bit over the top. Still, long live the resistance.
I come from a liberal university, where I was called a baby killer in class because I support the Iraq war (no response from the professor, who simply changed the subject).
Long live the resistance indeed.
what can be done about it
Nothing. The institution’s mission — the “driv[ing] from decent society” — is eternal. The fact that it speaks “liberal” now means nothing. It wasn’t so long ago that it didn’t. Then nothing changed, and it does. It won’t be so long until it again doesn’t, and nothing will have changed then, either.
Horowitz forgot too much of his Trotsky.
(Or not? I wonder sometimes.)
Power to the people, baby. Power to the people.
Over the top? Hardly. The left opposes freedom with every filthy breath. If one leaves aside the “right” to kill and the “right” to fornicate in the street, one will find no freedom they support. None.
tee bee– I don’t get it. Are you for state-funded abortion, or something?
ccoffer–Why, do they do it in the road?
Dan — they must. Why do you think you don’t see any horses on city streets anymore? They’ve all been spooked.
Filthy bipedestrians.
Thats where the parade is, of course.
Hey, look. Baby killer.
Since we can’t nuke academia and start over, it’s worth noting that next week will provide an opportunity to herald an academic who stands in stark contrast to his craven peers. Positive reinforcement has been shown to work with children and small animals, so it may have some effect on academics as well.
Then there’s Indoctrinate U … not related to Horowitz’s book as far as I can tell. Check out the trailer and deleted scenes.
In terms of public, land-grant universities, what influence can the public have in shaping the progams that stay vs. those cut? When I was at the University of Illinois, there were going to be cuts in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. To our amazement none of the “*-Studies” programs were cut, but rather Comparative Literature. Classical Civilizations was saved–that time. I don’t know if they still teach it or not.
Again, I wander away and come back late. Dan, if you’re serious, it had to do with guilt-by-association of supporting Bush’s baby killers in Iraq – the woman who threw the comment at me quoted something like 600,000 Iraqis under the age of 18 dead. This was in 2003. She’d clearly lost her noodle, but everyone nodded like she’d uttered the purest fact.
Don’t want to think about what they’d make of you calling that poor, oppressed woman at McDonald’s a baby killer.