American left still controls most powerful institutions

Union Leader ^ | 1/20/05 | JAMES K. GLASSMAN

[Polybius]

Philanthropy: Captains of industry make the money; their leftish progeny spend it on fashionable causes.

Cut income taxes and make up the difference with a Trustafarian Tax.

[New Orleans Slim]

I thought the remake of the Manchurian Candidate was about John Kerry.

[California Patriot]

Nice quick take on the situation. I'd say Mr. Glassman just about nails it.

[longtermmemmory]

Academe: Liberal and getting more so. The only exception is the tiny world of think tanks, where conservatives rule. In K-12 education, where the teachers’ unions maintain their stranglehold, reform is coming, glacially. Conservative influence: 20 percent.


This is faaaar too generous. Think tanks should not be included since they are shut out of the rest of the ivory tower. Many if not most leftist professors preclude ANY students from using conservative sources in research projects.


Much like the USSR where bookstores were there but no books to buy. The left precludes the language of debate in order to win any debate. You can't dissent without the tools of expressing ideas.

I would say the REAL number is less than 10%. In law schools the number is probably less than 3%.

[New Orleans Slim]

" In law schools the number is probably less than 3%."

I got my JD from the People's Republic of NYU back in the late '90s when it was still really, really liberal. But even back then, the whole law and economics paradigm was already ascendant. Only the most leftist professors like Sylvia Law went beyond some standard civil rights/affirmative action stuff in terms of lefty-ism. NYU Law even has more than two members in its Federalist Society now. Law schools aren't quite as bad as all of that.

[international american]

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[international american]

"Law schools aren't quite as bad as all of that."

True

[Gondring]

I agree that the Academe estimate is the one that is off. And it's actually the think tanks that missed the opportunities in K-12, since lefty organizations and think tanks have been providing freebies to teachers for years, while conservative ones have not. Teachers have small budgets and love freebies, and when I had a job that took me to schools across the state, the lefty influence was astonishing.

And most people outside the university setting have no clue how bad it is.

Agreed that it's

[flaglady47]

I must be prescient. I just posted the following comments a couple of days ago in a different thread (check out the last paragraph in particular):

I just retired from UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) where I worked for many, many years. The campus is riddled with ideological liberals. You could count on one hand the conservatives on campus holding teaching positions. The famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Stanley Fish was the Dean of our College (I worked in the Math Dept. as Ass't to the Head). Fish was the Dean that hired a transvestite as a Professor of Economics on campus. Virtually all the hiring he did (he recently resigned) was of liberal faculty members. Our campus, like many, many universities in the U.S., was very pro-Palestinian cause, and the Israeli's were the bad guys. The petition to divest from Israeli businesses was all over our campus and discussed (pro-divestiture) on the campus e-mail bulletin board frequently. The bias against Jewish concerns was getting worse when I left, but the Jewish faculty on campus were fighting back, thank goodness. I think the UIC campus, just like the Columbia Univ. campus, are representative of a trend to be found on a majority of major univ. campuses in the U.S. (many of the publically funded ones). I think that those who have been removed from the university experience do not realize just how liberally monolithic these places now are. I would never want to send a child to a major liberal university, as the thought police are rampant, and if you do not toe the liberal line they will get you, by shunning, by giving of bad grades, by intimidation, by name-calling, and in particular, by looking down their elite, liberal noses at the ignorance of the masses (that's you).

Conservatives must wake up to what is happening on our college campuses as the indoctrination of students is insidious. I had many student workers that I hired to help with the work of our Dept. during my worklife at UIC. Virtually all of them would spout the liberal line they had been spoon-fed (not only at the college level, but virtually throughout K-12). No analysis of thought came into play, just repeating like parrots the party line they had been taught. Now, there are still colleges and Universities that are not totally corrupted, and parents should wisely seek them out through research before sending their sons and daughters to an institution of "higher learning". But believe me, what is happening at Columbia U. in NY is also happening here in the Midwest.

Conservatives really need to start taking a more active interest in what their children are being taught at these institutions, and by fighting back as alumni, by protesting text used in textbooks, by withholding money, or by telling the university administrators exactly why you chose not to send your child to their institution.

While conservatives busy themselves in the ordinary course of life, with emphasis on businesses and the marketplace, the liberals have taken over the cities, the courts, and the educational institutions, where they can best indoctrinate, and have the courts back up their hair-brained ideas. And, of course, there is the liberal mouthpiece, the mainstream media. So, all the major ways of shaping society most easily are controlled by liberals. We must fight back furiously now, which many of us are via the new media, to get our ideas out there, and we must get the courts out of the hands of liberal judges. May Bush succeed in that.

[Gondring]

I would never want to send a child to a major liberal university, as the thought police are rampant, and if you do not toe the liberal line they will get you, by shunning, by giving of bad grades, by intimidation, by name-calling, and in particular, by looking down their elite, liberal noses at the ignorance of the masses (that's you).

Thank goodness for The Rutherford Institute, for their advice and support, which allowed me to stand up to spurious charges filed against me in grad school. Few students stand up to it, I think, so the Inquisition was surprised when I didn't just confess and go off to sensitivity training. All charges were dropped (one by one, as I kept my resolve), but I'll admit that it did make me less outspoken for a while.

Conservatives must wake up to what is happening on our college campuses as the indoctrination of students is insidious.

YES!

Conservatives really need to start taking a more active interest in what their children are being taught at these institutions, and by fighting back as alumni, by protesting text used in textbooks, by withholding money, or by telling the university administrators exactly why you chose not to send your child to their institution.

OMGOSH, YES!

While conservatives busy themselves in the ordinary course of life, with emphasis on businesses and the marketplace, the liberals have taken over...

Holy Cow, YES!

When I left the university environment, and was in that penumbra between academe and industry, I could see clearly that the everyday world had no clue of what was going on. I was conveying this to the president of the board of trustees, and he warned me to not let that thought go... And I'm glad he said that, because all-too-soon I got into the everyday routine of life, and the rampant antics on campus were far from my mind. :-(

Sounds like we have similar observations and analysis of the situation. If interested in chatting about organizing some action on this, please FReepmail me.

[goldstategop]

Liberals still dominate the culture. Its not a trivial power but the public is shrugging its shoulders and moving on.

[tm22721]

Liberal influence stems not from the top, but from the bottom - at the voting booth where Joe Sixpack votes himself money from your pocket.

The only conslusion I can draw from this runaway situation is that Ayn Rand was right. Conservatives will not engage, but withdraw from the gargantuan bureaucracies as they fail.

But can we survive the mob in the street ?

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[spodefly]

BTTT

[Sam Cree]

read later

[kattracks]

But can we survive the mob in the street ?

You mean the ones that believe in gun control?

[PGalt]

Thanks for your fresh from the battlefield briefing. Thanks for the post kattracks.

Today, 25 years after Ronald Reagan’s victory, the work of changing American institutions is just beginning.

Work is fun. Work is rewarding. Let's work. Work. Work. Work.

[longtermmemmory]

It may be true of students or student organizations but I find the professors have not changed and I find this particularly troubling since the most liberal are often on admissions committees.

[international american]

I could spend all day on this thread, and preach to the choir:) Thanks for the ping.