Exiled: Stories from Conservative and Moderate Professors Who Have Been Ridiculed, Ostracized, Marginalized, Demonized, and Frozen Out

by Mary Grabar (Editor)

Mary Grabar, Ph.D English, has compiled six essays written by professors from various disciplines about what happens when they challenge the conventional wisdom in the modern academy. Far from finding a safe haven for diversity of ideas and approaches to them, these professors have learned that in the modern university, diversity is merely skin deep, and academic freedom exists in name only. If you are one of the brave few who dare to question the prevailing ideology, this book will help you to feel a little less like an alien. If you are open to the idea that ideas must be considered before they can be either accepted or rejected, especially at university, then perhaps this collection will open your eyes just a bit to the reality of the ideological calcification currently set in on the college campus today.

Genres: Education

110 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Mary Grabar, the author of “Debunking Howard Zinn,” earned her PhD from the University of Georgia and taught college English for 20 years. She is now a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. Her writing can be found at DissidentProf.com and at marygrabar.com.

Reviews

[Dawn Rainey · Rating 5 out of 5]

For every professor who tells a story like those told in Exiled, there are many students who have experienced ridicule, demonization, and hostility in the college classroom for expressing dissent from the ideology currently in fashion or just for questioning those ideas. Some students have even been reported to campus authorities as being dangerous -- criminally dangerous -- merely for challenging a professor's claims. I find that offensive in the extreme, both as a professor who believes the classroom should be a place in which ideas should be exchanged and examined freely and as a professor who has been stalked by a former student. This volume of essays helps to illuminate the reality of life on a college campus today, where ideas are not examined and students are taught less how to think than what to believe.