Free Republic

BrainwashedBy Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | May 13, 2004 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ben Shapiro, the author of the new book Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth.FP: Mr. Shapiro, welcome to Frontpage Interview.Shapiro:  It’s an honor and a pleasure.   FP: Tell us about the ingredients of your own life that motivated you to write this book. Shapiro:  I’ve spent some time in public school, and having seen the liberal propaganda put out by lower public education, I thought I knew what I would get when I set foot on UCLA’s campus.  But I was totally unprepared for the level of radical leftism...

Good afternoon. First off, allow me to extend my gratitude to Young America’s Foundation for inviting me to speak. The foundation is truly a beacon of support and inspiration, and altogether an indispensable resource and ally for those who are fighting in the trenches against college leftism to preserve and advance our conservative values. I am profoundly honored to be here. Ever since the election of President Ronald Reagan, conservative values have been on the upswing in America. Faced with Ronald Reagan’s unyielding leadership and the unprecedented commitment of the United States to strong national defense, the Soviet Union -...

The Abuse of the Politically Incorrect: Academia and Beyond by Steven Yates [This speech was presented at the College Abuse Conference in Durham, North Carolina, on May 8, 2004. Thanks to Robert "Whit" Whitfield for sponsoring the event, and to Dr. Christina Jeffrey of Spartanburg, South Carolina, for her hard work in organizing the conference. I have added an occasional line here and there, and retitled the speech for LewRockwell.com.] I am an Independent Scholar. That is, I do intellectual work and sometimes publish scholarly articles and reviews without an academic position. I am, however, an ex-faculty member. I have...

The Classics on Campus: Looking for William Shakespeare by: Malcolm A. Kline, March 24, 2004 Mention the classics on college campuses today and you are lucky if you get references to Coca-Cola or cars—and that’s in the faculty lounges and administration offices. One of our readers summed up the change in college education in an e-mail to us. “My God,” he wrote, “when I went to university I studied Plato, Socrates, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, European and World History, French Literature, and Canadian History, to mention a few of the courses I took. And I was taking Engineering!” Researchers at the...

Separate but equal? Story by Alisa Farenzena From the May 2004 Print Edition Imagine a campus organization whose every member was the same ethnicity and openly advocated putting his race above all others. Sound far-fetched? The description fits the bill for the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), whose slogan “For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing” is indisputably racist. The Berkeley MEChA Constitution states one of the organization’s objectives is “to develop, maintain, and defend programs that work on recruiting and retaining Raza to the University,” yet there would be public outcry if the goal of...

Diversity in Higher Education Critical to Combating Prejudice and Ensuring that Mental Health Professionals are Culturally Competent to Care for All Americans. WASHINGTON -- The American Psychological Association (APA) will file an amicus brief in support of the University of Michigan and requesting that the Supreme Court affirm the University's admissions policies in its undergraduate and law schools. The APA brief puts forward three sets of research findings in support of the University of Michigan's position. These findings are: 1. Research shows that racial and ethnic discrimination and prejudice persist in American society, 2. Research also shows that many...

Ben Shapiro is 20 years old, has a screenname on FR (I'm sworn to secrecy!), has cool parents who invite fellow politically conservative Jews over for BBQ's, has had a syndicated column since he was 17, and just came out with a book detailing the ways in which universities indoctrinate you and your children with leftist, anti-America propaganda. If you've heard Ben on Al Rantel's show or other radio talk shows, you know he's a very bright guy and is interested in presenting facts and evidence to make his case, not tearful complaints about being a political minority on campus....

Recently an extremely important situation was brought to my attention and I want to enlist those of you who have influence to bring this to the attention of the greater public. A friend of mine rents rooms in his home to students of Stony Brook University. Stony Brook University is the academic home of a huge Asian population, mostly recent immigrants from China who have come to the United States for an education. Of course, there are also many American students attending classes there too. Many of these students are taking their first writing classes in English, the text of...

All good people agree And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They. Rudyard Kipling "We and They" The term "political correctness" is such a familiar piece of moral shorthand that it is easy to forget that the phrase has been with us for only about a dozen years. "John or Mary or the University of Lagado is so PC"--it's never a compliment, but exactly what does the charge of political correctness imply? To a large extent, the familiarity of the phenomenon has bred, if not contempt, then at least an...

"Brainwashed" - Mike S. Adams - May 13, 2004 Hello Ben. I decided to write you an email because we always end up playing phone tag when I try to call. I guess that’s because of the three time zone difference. That won’t be a problem when you leave the Left Coast for Cambridge next year. At any rate, I just finished reading your new book “Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth.” As you might expect, I have a few comments. When I first heard about the book, I wondered whether you would try to provide systematic evidence of liberal...

Andrea Irvin's college bedroom is at once a suburban schoolgirl mecca and a shrine to the Republican Party. The UC Berkeley junior, who studies business and economics, has affixed a neat row of bumper stickers to her door ("Viva Bush!" reads one), and on the peach-colored walls has hung a Breakfast at Tiffany's poster near a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign sign. On a dresser laden with cosmetics rests a picture taken at a political fund-raiser in which Irvin stands next to Bush's former press secretary, Ari Fleisher, whom she "likes a lot." The room smells faintly of perfume. It is also...

Major Victory for Free Speech at Cal Poly University Settles Lawsuit, Abandons Effort to Defend Censorship SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—In a major victory for liberty and equal rights on campus, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) has settled a free speech lawsuit. The case involved Cal Poly student Steve Hinkle, who was punished for posting a flier on a public bulletin board announcing a College Republicans-sponsored speech by a black social critic. Some students at the campus Multicultural Center found the flier "offensive." See the flier here. Cal Poly has agreed to expunge Hinkle's disciplinary record relating to the incident,...

Cal Poly settles with student in lawsuit over free speech Jeff Ballinger The Tribune Cal Poly has agreed to a $40,000 settlement with Steve Hinkle, the student disciplined last year for posting an unauthorized flier on campus. The amount was to cover the legal bills of Hinkle, an industrial technology student who is president of the College Republicans. The settlement comes after Hinkle filed a lawsuit in federal court last September, claiming the university had violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for trying to post a flier promoting a conservative author. University officials released a statement Thursday on...

<p>A Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student who sued the school for allegedly violating his 1st Amendment rights reached a settlement with the university this week. The school promised to expunge Steve Hinkle's disciplinary record and to pay $40,000 in legal fees.</p>

It is extremely challenging for conservative college students to pop the bubble of political correctness that surrounds them, and when they do speak, you seldom hear about it. But I have good news for you. More and more students are refusing to take assaults on family values sitting down. For example, on April 15, a young group of College Republicans at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, organized a day of support for traditional marriage. Looking for reinforcements, the College Republicans invited members of TFP Student Action to join in their efforts. Shippensburg College Republicans had a table inside the CUB Great Hall...

Students Call On University to Boost Minority Enrollment Railing against a sharp drop in underrepresented minority admits for this fall, members of five UC Berkeley recruitment and retention centers demanded greater university involvement in boosting racial diversity yesterday during a rally in front of California Hall. “I’m embarrassed to be in a place that prides itself on ‘so-called’ diversity,” said Dallas Goldtooth, executive director of the Native American Recruitment and Retention Center. Underrepresented freshman admits dropped by 12.5 percent and the number of black students admitted to UC Berkeley plunged by 30 percent this year, officials announced this week....

Wherever there's a pernicious development in America's intellectual climate, Ford is "present at the creation." Editor’s Note: One of the largest and most dangerous concentrations of unchecked power in the United States is the Ford Foundation with discretionary spending power that rivals that of government. It is spending power moreover, for the political left and often the hard left. As a public service Frontpage Magazine is devoting a series of articles to the malign influence of Ford. The story posted below, which originally appeared in Heterodoxy magazine, reveals Ford’s crucial role in creating the ideological movement called “multiculturalism” in our...

ITHACA--Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan broke the law when it used a race-based points system to decide whether to admit a student. Marvin Krislov, the university's Vice President, was smack in the middle of the controversy. "It's absolutely crystal clear that for this country to grow and develop we need to have diverse student bodies and diverse leadership opportunities for people from all backgrounds,” he said. Cornell's Center for the Study of Inequality has brought experts like Krislov together this weekend to try and hash out the rights and wrongs of affirmative action and...

Freepers, you can call this "opposition research". This is how the California Higher Education establishment is responding to the legislation on the "Academic Bill of Rights" proposed recently. (Email begins here) Dear Area A representatives, This morning you received the below email from Julie Adams. She referred to the urgent issue threatening academic freedom. I pasted below the two resolutions we passed on this topic. I encourage you to forward this message to your senates and faculty as you see fit, and urge everyone to contact their legislators asap. At the bottom of this message I pasted an email I...

COVALIS, Oregon — Barred from writing columns for the Oregon State University Daily Barometer, senior David Williams is in the eye of a storm some call a racial double standard. The newspaper's editor fired him after he wrote: "I think blacks should be more careful in deciding whom they choose to support. They need to grow beyond the automatic reaction of defending someone because he or she shares the same skin color and is in a dilemma." Williams, who is white, was referring to examples such as when singer R. Kelly (search), who is accused of being a child pornographer,...