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One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy
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Examines the course catalogs, professors' syllabi, and reading lists to reveal what really goes on in America's colleges and universities and identifies the twelve worst schools in the country.
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“David Horowitz has single-handedly exposed the intellectual corruption that exists within the classrooms of American colleges. Like all forms of corruption, indoctrination flourishes when kept in the dark. Here, Horowitz turns on the bright lights to expose what has become profoundly wrong with our colleges and universities. We are all in his debt.”
–Ward Connerly, former regent, University of California
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.
“A professor's job is not to tell students what to think; it is to help them to think carefully, critically, and for themselves. There is a legitimate place for the catechist, the preacher, the social activist, and the community organizer; but that place is not the university classroom. Professors who seek to indoctrinate their students violate a sacred trust. They should be forcefully challenged and publicly held to account. In One-Party Classroom, David Horowitz does just that. The book should provoke a discussion of the ethics of classroom instruction that is long overdue.”
—Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program
in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
“Definitive proof that, whether they succeed or not, thousands of professors go to work every day with the intention of indoctrinating their students in their personal political prejudices.”
—Candace de Russy, former trustee, State University of New York
“One-Party Classroom shows how far American universities have drifted from academic principles. The politicized courses described here are indeed among the worst cases. What is truly shocking is the unwillingness of university authorities to do anything about them.”
—Stephen H. Balch, founder and president, National Association of Scholars
“Reveals how political activists masquerading as academics dominate our liberal arts colleges. Regents and trustees need to become engaged in this important battle to restore academic rigor, standards, and accountability to our institutions of higher learning.”
—Tom Lucero, regent, University of Colorado
“There is not a university leader in this country who would not be better for confronting the well-reported case studies in David Horowitz's book.”
—Frederick Mohs, former trustee, University of Wisconsin |
Item Specifications...
Pages 336
Dimensions: Length: 9.3" Width: 6.4" Height: 1.3"
Weight: 1.15 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Mar 10, 2009
Publisher Crown Forum
ISBN 0307452557
EAN 9780307452559
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 | More Radical Right Claptrap. Yawn. Feb 5, 2010 |
| I'm not sure what it is that frightens Horowitz so much about teaching students to think for themselves, instead of believing everything they read and hear, but here he is ranting about it AGAIN and making empty and often false accusations AGAIN. It's the perfect book for conservatives -- no thinking required, just fear. If you want to pay him your money for a book that he has already written twice (and apparently never actually researched beyond course catalogs at all), it's your dime. | | |  | One-Party Classroom Jan 30, 2010 |
| A must read, especially for parents preparing to send their kids to college. A stunning and convincing indictment of the "higher"-education establishment. Mr. Horowitz's painstaking research and his documentation of the facts are impressive. I can only try to imagine the drudgery involved in pulling all this data together. I thank him for doing so and encourage everyone to read it in order to educate themselves about the virulent propaganda being taught on America's college campuses. | | | | What an idiot Jan 18, 2010 |
| Horowitz is simply making things up in order to sell books. He listed a professor I have had in college and knows nothing about him. The professor is a professional saxophonist who Horowitz added to the list because of the title of the class: "Peace and Conflict Resolution." In the class we learned about non-violent protests thoughout history. If non-violence is a liberal agenda, I'll see you at the DNC. | | |  | Excellent read Nov 9, 2009 |
| Well written political fodder. Accurate portrayal of the problems with today's colleges & universities that has deepened over the years rather than getting better. Over my decades of exposure, I have found less and less tolerance on campus for non liberal thinking & speaking. I have even seen attacks on students (by other students & professors) for just discussing conservatism (or Christianity) in a favorable light. Doubtful this book will be required reading at many schools but it should be. | | | | Very Timely But It's Actually Worse Than This Aug 11, 2009 |
David Horowitz's expose' of how our colleges and universities have been radicalized is timely and important. One must realize that many young minds are emerging from their indoctrination with a completely distorted view of our society. They will carry the product of this 'liberal education' forward and help form our society from this day forward. Unless and until this problem is addressed, one can readily extrapolate to an end point most of us do not want.
It is also important to realize that the problem is actually worse than Horowitz depicts, because it is not limited to the social sciences. It penetrates technical arenas as well. Whereas the lever in the social sciences is the theme of racism/gender and its supposed roots in the evils of American capitalism, the lever in the technical area is the bogus issue of global warming. And make no mistake about it, global warming also hinges to the evils of capitalism through the ideology of radicalized environmental NGOs and their willing allies in academia. The funding of academic research on climate, now many billions per year, depends on the continued alarmist fear of the consequences of capitalism's excesses in the form of CO2 emissions. Readers who want to know how the system works should consult Richard Lindzen's essay [...] Lindzen is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT and is the most prominent spokesperson against the nonsense being paraded as science. He is therefore the most hated.
The point is that indoctrination extends to key science issues as they relate to polical ideology. This is why in my home town a professor at our local college with no more than a degree in library science and no background in energy can teach a course called the "End of Oil" in which global warming is taught as fact, and the end of energy-supported capitalist civilization at hand. | | | Write your own review about One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy
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