Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom

by David Horowitz

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In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. Take No Prisoners is a riveting account of the reaction to Horowitz's campaign by professor unions and academic associations, whose leaderships have been taken over by the political left.

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Horowitz is a polemicist, so most people will not enjoy his writing style if they don't already agree with him. Here Horowitz chronicles leftist professors in academe who use their position to indoctrinate students and stifle academic freedom. Leftists may deny that this happens, but it does. The leftward tilt of academia is undeniable. Although most professors are pretty fair and don't use their pulpit to sow chaos and division, some indeed do. And this book chronicles that. The solution, though, is not workable. More laws to try and create some sort of political equity are not the solution. More government never is.
DH argues with opinion and amassed evidence,that the ideologues of the left have infiltrated higher education and corrupted freedom of thought in the very institutions which once were considered bastions of intellectual freedom. Today, freedom is only extended to those who conform to the radical left's standards.
An incredibly interesting book. I came across professors like this as an undergraduate at Michigan State University; fortunately for me, I knew how to handle them and they were few and far between. David Horowitz is extremely readable. I really enjoy reading his work online too.

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David Horowitz is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Unholy Alliance, as well as The Professors, and his celebrated autobiography Radical Son. He is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and founder of the online news magazine FrontPageMag.com.

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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378.1Social sciencesEducationHigher education (Tertiary education)Organization and management; curriculums
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LC72.2 .H67EducationSpecial aspects of educationSpecial aspects of educationSocial aspects of educationEducation and the stateAcademic freedom
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