[saveliberty]

Excellent posting! This is a rational and methodical analysis of the tyranny of the left in the late 20th and now early 21st centuries.

[Broker]

I was at the University of Vermont (Oregon east) 1969-73 majoring in Geology and Army ROTC .. My faternity brothers were dope headed activists and radicals. Those years were insane...

Today President Bush will visit Atlanta. The local rock radio station news bulletin, "Protesters will greet President Bush today on his visit to Atlanta." The conservative talk show bulletin, "Democrat Senator Zell Miller and other state democrats will join President Bush at a fund raiser here in Atlanta tonight."

The anarchists and useful idiots are as they always were. Dangerous.

[Kay Syrah]

Well this certainly resonates with my own memories of university in the 60's. Boston University, bomb threats, evacuations, and the cancellation of classes, and finals, and the very expensive education I was providing for myself being dragged into the streets and trashed. But it was interesting. I remember one late nite bs session,( I had just come in from my full time job, evening shift) and the subject was the need to recognise the struggle of the working man, and unexamined psuedo- marxist cant. I asked one of the more outspoken ones what her plans were for the summer, Turned out to be Europe on her parents dollar. Whadda ya do? I just laughed. I always figured they'd grow up. Until the Clintons came to power and then I realised how much they hadn't changed.

I wasn't scared in the 60's but I have been scared since the 90's. I didn't realise at the time that their ideology really didn't come from anything more than the profound self regard of the two year old wishing to control everything but itself.

[Agnes Heep]

Leftism is a complete charade; an utter pretense. It's no wonder it goes over so well with homosexuals.

[quadrant]

Parents pay money to send their children to the University of Oregon. Why?

There is no reason for anyone study liberal arts today, if this is a sample of the course contents.

Up with Business Administration and Computer Science.
Down with liberal arts.

[ventana]

For a person with a degree in English, this writer has a poor grasp of style and syntax. V's wife.

[6ppc]

Bump for an excellant read!

[Paul Ross]

BTTT! AWESOME! This part is especially insightful:

...she had discovered a great truth, “These women were not just confused about science. They were against it.”

[pabianice]

How sad my generation is the Garbage Cry-baby Generation for so many reasons.

[wayoverontheright]

It has encouraged both the old and the young to self-hatred,

The author no doubt is on to something here, this would explain a lot about the behavior of the Hollywood leftists, the schizophrenic policies of the Democratic party, etc.

Go back to the sixties? I'd rather have an ice-cold enema.

[goodnesswins]

Interesting story about the University "system"....interesting to that this person votes LIBERTARIAN. Sheesh.

[stainlessbanner]

bump for later

[ladylib]

It filtered down to the high schools, too. We had walkouts, bomb threats, anti-war demonstrations, riots -- the whole thing.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Nice post!

[Paulus Invictus]

Marvelous stuff! Prof. Cogan needs a huge vote of appreciation from Freepers. How do we do that by email?

[ryanjb2]

Luckily, I go to an engineering college. Leftism does exist on campus, but not much.

Not all hope is lost. Out of the two required American history classes I have taken, one was well balanced and taught well, the other was fairly anti-American. The book (required) seemed like it was written by Karl Marx himself.

[Scenic Sounds]

Why is it that guys like this (a well-educated professor) are always at a loss to communicate specifically what in the hell they are talking about?

Though there is no official speech code, there is a silent but perceptible feeling in many University’s [sic] classrooms that only specific subjects deserve discussion . . .

Wouldn't it help to know what specific subjects this man is talking about?

that certain words should not be said . . .

What certain words is he talking about? Were the "words" excluded from this column because they are words that Horowitz won't permit to be used at his website?

nor a variety of well-known topics truly explored.

What specific topics is he being forbidden to explore?

How can anyone make this professor happy if hasn't figured out or won't share with us his specific problems?

[Ciexyz]

This is why I no longer contribute to my alma mater. I'd rather contribute to my church.

[Billthedrill]

Intense deja vu here - while the author was going through this I was about an hour up the road in Corvallis experiencing the same environment - only I was in uniform at the time. It's hard to fully describe the feeling on campus then - it was literally enemy territory if you were in my situation and you really did have to walk around with eyes in the back of your head.

I was, fortunately for my own intellectual well-being, a Science major, and hence most of the pressure I felt was from my fellow students and not from the faculty, who tended to be largely neutral if not downright sympathetic - those were the days when there actually was a fair percentage of military veterans on the faculty.

Ours was considered the "conservative" campus in the state of Oregon at the time, which was quite a joke to those of us who saw the smoking ruins of the firebombed Air Force ROTC facilities. It may have been worse in Eugene - it probably was - but it was quite bad enough where I was.

I will say this in defense of the liberal arts faculty - some of the most idealistic, liberal members were also the first to come to my defense when I got stomped on for expressing an unpopular opinion, such as that the people I was serving with weren't really mindless automatons who were spitting babies on bayonets. Those faculty members were on the barricades but took pains not to let it become personal, and I'm grateful to them, although they're mostly retired by now - my gracious, this was a third of a century ago!

Things have, if recent experience is any guide, gotten worse - the ideologues that sat next to me are now the ones on the podium, and haven't lost any of the certitude or gained any better knowledge over the years. But I did notice two things - first, that a faculty member who managed to shut up long enough to attain tenure is now considered a maverick when he or she is a defiant conservative, and second, that students still admire and emulate such mavericks. It drives the tenured radicals nuts.

[Jaysun]

BRAVO