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03-01-2006, 10:51 PM
Time magazine once called author David Horowitz "a clear and ruthless thinker. What he says has an indignant sanity about it."
Horowitz lives up to that description in his latest blockbuster book -- "The Professors – The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."
In it he offers "indignant sanity" as he draws blazing portraits of some of the worst leftist propagandists now infesting America's colleges and universities.
Those unfamiliar with the extent to which the nation's campuses are being held captive by left-wing radicals will find his revelations shocking. He goes about the task of unmasking the most virulent of academic terrorists who brook no dissent from their student victims.
Horowitz is well suited for the job. He knows the left, its tactics and its goals because he is a child of the extreme left, a background he detailed in his classic books, "Radical Son" and the more recent "Left Illusions."
A lifelong champion of civil rights, he shifted from his parents' vigorous communism - a vigor he shared - to battling his former comrades on the left, paying special attention to their continuing assault on America's institutions of higher education.
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In the 1990s Horowitz created the Individual Rights Foundation to combat the epidemic of so-called speech codes being used by colleges to stifle free speech. In 1998 he created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, his vehicle for fighting the culture wars raging on campuses.
He has visited hundreds of campuses and has been frequently attacked - sometimes physically - by students egged on by bigoted academics who despise any opinions but their own Marxist creed. Now in his mid-60s and recovered from a bout with prostate cancer, he's still at it. Says radio hostess Laura Ingraham: "Beware the unhinged, leftist academic when David Horowitz hits campus."
Florida State Rep. Dennis K. Baxley, chairman of the Education Council of the Florida Legislature, says, "David Horowitz has done more than anyone I know to throw light on the political abuse of our college and university classrooms by activist professors who have been enabled to do so because of the incestuous self-selection process for faculty recruitment and tenure."
In "The Professors" Horowitz traces the advent of leftist domination of the campus to "an academic generation that came of age as the anti-war radicals in the Vietnam era." He notes that many of these activists stayed in school to avoid the military draft and earned Ph.D.s, "taking their political activism with them when they became tenured-track professors in the 1970s."
Horowitz reveals in detail the extent of professorial radicalism being imposed on students.
He cites federal government statistics showing that the total number of college and university professors is a staggering 617,000. Of that number, he estimates there are between 25,000 and 30,000 radical academics on America's campuses.
The number of students annually passing through their classrooms, he estimates, would be on the order of 3 million potential brainwashees.
Writes Horowitz: "This is a figure that ought to trouble every educator who is concerned about the quality of higher education and every American who cares about the country's future."
Profiled in the book are some of the most radical academics in the United States, representing every form of Marxism, radical Islamicism and sexual deviancy imaginable. He explores a political and cultural loony bin whose inmates are determined to warp the minds of every student they "teach":
# At the University of Oregon, professor John Bellamy Foster, editor of the Marxist magazine "Monthly Review," considers the collapse of the Soviet empire to be a setback for human progress.
# University of Texas (Arlington) professor Jose Angel Gutierrez says: "We have to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to worst, we have got to kill them."
# Columbia University professor Victor Navasky has somehow convinced himself that the traitor Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg spies who betrayed our atomic secrets to the Soviets were as pure as the driven snow.
# University of Michigan professor Gayle Rubin, a fan of pedophilia, argues that the government's crackdown on child molesters is a "savage and undeserved witch hunt."
# Rutgers University professor Michael Warner advocates public homosexual encounters with strangers.
There are 96 other academics covered in this excursion into the madness of campus extremism. None subscribed to the description of teachers' duties offered by distinguished leftist professor Stanley Fish, who wrote: "Teachers should teach their subjects. They should not teach peace or war or freedom or diversity or uniformity or nationalism or anti-nationalism or any other agenda that might properly be taught by a political leader or talk-show host."
If the examples cited above are not frightening enough, what Horowitz wrote at the conclusion of "The Professors" should scare the wits out of any parent whose child is enrolled in an American college or university: "More than 90 percent of the professors profiled in this text have attained tenure rank, an indication that their academic work is approved by their peers … within their department and university and nationally."
Their tenure, he notes, makes them eligible to vote on who will be hired in the future in their departments and who will be promoted to tenured rank. He goes on to warn that "the problems revealed in this text - the explicit introduction of political agendas into the classroom, the lack of professionalism in conduct and the decline in professional standards - appear to be increasingly widespread throughout the academic profession and at virtually every type of institution of higher learning."
Horowitz lives up to that description in his latest blockbuster book -- "The Professors – The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."
In it he offers "indignant sanity" as he draws blazing portraits of some of the worst leftist propagandists now infesting America's colleges and universities.
Those unfamiliar with the extent to which the nation's campuses are being held captive by left-wing radicals will find his revelations shocking. He goes about the task of unmasking the most virulent of academic terrorists who brook no dissent from their student victims.
Horowitz is well suited for the job. He knows the left, its tactics and its goals because he is a child of the extreme left, a background he detailed in his classic books, "Radical Son" and the more recent "Left Illusions."
A lifelong champion of civil rights, he shifted from his parents' vigorous communism - a vigor he shared - to battling his former comrades on the left, paying special attention to their continuing assault on America's institutions of higher education.
Story Continues Below
In the 1990s Horowitz created the Individual Rights Foundation to combat the epidemic of so-called speech codes being used by colleges to stifle free speech. In 1998 he created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, his vehicle for fighting the culture wars raging on campuses.
He has visited hundreds of campuses and has been frequently attacked - sometimes physically - by students egged on by bigoted academics who despise any opinions but their own Marxist creed. Now in his mid-60s and recovered from a bout with prostate cancer, he's still at it. Says radio hostess Laura Ingraham: "Beware the unhinged, leftist academic when David Horowitz hits campus."
Florida State Rep. Dennis K. Baxley, chairman of the Education Council of the Florida Legislature, says, "David Horowitz has done more than anyone I know to throw light on the political abuse of our college and university classrooms by activist professors who have been enabled to do so because of the incestuous self-selection process for faculty recruitment and tenure."
In "The Professors" Horowitz traces the advent of leftist domination of the campus to "an academic generation that came of age as the anti-war radicals in the Vietnam era." He notes that many of these activists stayed in school to avoid the military draft and earned Ph.D.s, "taking their political activism with them when they became tenured-track professors in the 1970s."
Horowitz reveals in detail the extent of professorial radicalism being imposed on students.
He cites federal government statistics showing that the total number of college and university professors is a staggering 617,000. Of that number, he estimates there are between 25,000 and 30,000 radical academics on America's campuses.
The number of students annually passing through their classrooms, he estimates, would be on the order of 3 million potential brainwashees.
Writes Horowitz: "This is a figure that ought to trouble every educator who is concerned about the quality of higher education and every American who cares about the country's future."
Profiled in the book are some of the most radical academics in the United States, representing every form of Marxism, radical Islamicism and sexual deviancy imaginable. He explores a political and cultural loony bin whose inmates are determined to warp the minds of every student they "teach":
# At the University of Oregon, professor John Bellamy Foster, editor of the Marxist magazine "Monthly Review," considers the collapse of the Soviet empire to be a setback for human progress.
# University of Texas (Arlington) professor Jose Angel Gutierrez says: "We have to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to worst, we have got to kill them."
# Columbia University professor Victor Navasky has somehow convinced himself that the traitor Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg spies who betrayed our atomic secrets to the Soviets were as pure as the driven snow.
# University of Michigan professor Gayle Rubin, a fan of pedophilia, argues that the government's crackdown on child molesters is a "savage and undeserved witch hunt."
# Rutgers University professor Michael Warner advocates public homosexual encounters with strangers.
There are 96 other academics covered in this excursion into the madness of campus extremism. None subscribed to the description of teachers' duties offered by distinguished leftist professor Stanley Fish, who wrote: "Teachers should teach their subjects. They should not teach peace or war or freedom or diversity or uniformity or nationalism or anti-nationalism or any other agenda that might properly be taught by a political leader or talk-show host."
If the examples cited above are not frightening enough, what Horowitz wrote at the conclusion of "The Professors" should scare the wits out of any parent whose child is enrolled in an American college or university: "More than 90 percent of the professors profiled in this text have attained tenure rank, an indication that their academic work is approved by their peers … within their department and university and nationally."
Their tenure, he notes, makes them eligible to vote on who will be hired in the future in their departments and who will be promoted to tenured rank. He goes on to warn that "the problems revealed in this text - the explicit introduction of political agendas into the classroom, the lack of professionalism in conduct and the decline in professional standards - appear to be increasingly widespread throughout the academic profession and at virtually every type of institution of higher learning."