Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom

by David Horowitz

In dramatic commentary, Indoctrination U. unveils the intellectual corruption of American universities by faculty activists who have turned America's classrooms into indoctrination centers for their political causes. It describes how academic radicals with little regard for professional standards or the pluralistic foundations of American society have created an ideological curriculum that it is as odds with the traditional purposes of a democratic education.

Genres: Education, Politics, Nonfiction

175 pages, Hardcover

First published February 6, 2007

About the author

David Joel Horowitz was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.
Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.

Reviews

[Theresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book because I agree the university is a place where students should be free to learn the facts and hear all points of view. However, after putting down the left for attacking him instead of the cause, Horowitz proceeds to do the same to his attackers. I was hoping to read about how we can have free discourse in the classroom. Instead I got a list of people who don't like him and why they are bad.

[Brian Olson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm familiar with his work - universities bad, here's why, leftists taking over the classroom. I am sure this is full of egregious examples of left-wing bias and censorship, but I couldn't find time to finish it.

[George Eraclides · Rating 4 out of 5]

About the efforts to stop left wing indoctrination of students in higher education through the adoption of an academic 'bill of rights'. Very insightful and revealing. I will fight for your freedom to speak and think but...only if you agree with me. The loony left has won the battle at the universities in the west and driven the loony right onto the streets. Excellent, timely, and disturbing.

[Shinseki lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book😍

[Node · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. Kind of anecdotal.

Horowitz writes about the aftermath of his Academic Freedom campaign and its effects. He explains why courses must be taught in a non-partisan and non-sectarian to seed the minds of new students into critical thought and the pursuit of knowledge in an independent fashion.

One of the more interesting facts, I got from this book is that there are many academics teaching in courses they are not qualified to teach. How these teachers found themselves teaching and writing in a discipline they're not trained for demonstrates how some academic departments have foregone academic independence for uncritical methods of politicking.

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book fails to address one major component of academic freedom. The Indigenous perspective is widely undermined in the world of academnics and this book fails to incorporate the collective wisdom Indigenous peoples possess and its important place in academia. The backbone of this book has a political foundation, and offers little to the argument of educational freedom, especially for Indigenous peoples.

[E · Rating 3 out of 5]

My sister sent me this book for my birthday. I just started it. It is good so far......I have finished this now. I liked it. There are other books I liked better on this subject but still good.