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The corruption of
American higher education has been in the news a lot in the last few years.
“Snowflakes” and “safe spaces,” crowds of thugs shutting down conservative
speakers, craven administrators caving in to demands of activist students
and faculty have become increasingly common since the rise of Donald Trump
sparked a “resistance” movement. Even progressives who have run afoul
of campus terrorists are writing books about free speech now that their
revolutionary children have started devouring their own.
In The Left in the University, you will learn about:
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the left’s takeover of universities across America;
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how far our campuses have descended into preposterous
political correctness;
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how sixties radicals began the redefinition of academic work
from a search for truth according to professional norms, to a political
activism that in the name of “relevance” and “social justice” shaped
research and teaching to confirm leftist ideology and discredit whatever
alternatives students might believe;
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how “studies” like Post-Colonial Studies and Social Justice
Studies proliferated to promote “narrowly one-sided political agendas,” and
create “institutional settings for political indoctrination” and the
“exposition and development of radical theory, and education and training
of a radical cadre and the recruitment of students to radical causes;” and
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radical intimidators and campus criminals, such as Antifa
thugs, who regularly assault property, persons and reputations” with
charges of racism, sexism, or even rape. They believe “If the ideas are
correct, it’s okay to silence anyone who disagrees.”
David Horowitz, in
his essays, frequently makes an important point: it’s not just the
ideological prejudices of this or that faculty member, but a whole
institutional, professional, and administrative apparatus that has made
possible today’s overwhelmingly leftist and progressive university. What he
has been warning about in his books and speeches for more than thirty years
- the ideological hijacking of the university and the betrayal of its
traditional mission - has finally grabbed the national spotlight. The
essays in The Left
in the University are indispensable for anyone who wants to
understand how we got to this pass.
We encourage our
readers to visit BlackBookOfTheAmericanLeft.com, which features Horowitz’s introductions to
Volumes 1-8 of this 10-volume series, along with their tables of contents,
reviews and interviews with the author. (Order HERE.)
About the Author: David Horowitz is the bestselling author of numerous books including Unholy
Alliance (2004), The Party of Defeat (2008) and Take
No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left (2014). David is
the founder and chairman of the David Horowitz Freedom Center which is
dedicated to the defense of free societies whose moral, cultural and
economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and
religious, at home and abroad.
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