His SparkNotes inspired tour guide to Bad Profs 101 profiles those he seems to consider the worst of the lot. The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America Charles McGrath, "A Liberal Education? Not yet a Supporting Member of the New York Sun? The Panthers lost. If you are already a member, please log in here: David Horowitz is just another mouthpiece for the right-wing oligarchy that is destroying America and its middle class in order to create a feudal society. 3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. Most have no idea why the news is the news. Each horror landed like a body blow to a generation's anointed best-and-brightest. . Along with your FREE chapter you will also receive CBC's daily newsletter delivered directly to your email inbox. [13], Paul Weyrich of the conservative Free Congress Foundation commented that "Horowitz estimates that there are about 60,000 of these radical professors in every part of the nation... We are not talking about liberals here. This group scorns a society that cares for its people. ISBN 0895260034 Former commander in the Weather Underground. Depends on Who's Looking", Learn how and when to remove these template messages, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, American Association of University Professors, Nine Professors At Columbia Are Deemed 'Dangerous', Dangerous Professors – Most dangerous academics in America. Become a Conservative Book Club VIP Member! For more than 50 years, the Conservative Book Club has guided book lovers to the best conservative books and authors of our times. The Sun in January reported that Ms. Anderson had along with several other Columbia professors taken a junket to Saudi Arabia paid for by the kingdom-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco. 10. Received the Lenin Peace Prize from the former Soviet Union. On his blog, Horowitz admitted wrongly attributing material to Eric Foner, blamed the error on the 30 researchers, and went on to say that the errors in his book are "inconsequential. Indicted, but acquitted (her trial was a farce), for involvement in the death of a California judge and three others outside a courthouse in Marin County, Calif. Build Your Own Bookshelf? Helpful. The Academy, Horowitz tells us, is skating straight to hell, drafting young mental athletes for a high-stakes game of crack-the-whip along the way. "[14], In a March 2007 debate with Horowitz, American Association of University Professors President Cary Nelson told the author: "That’s largely a book in which for many of those people their primary works of scholarship are simply set aside and ignored. On January 13, the Sun reported that Mr. Massad's prejudice and intimidation contributed to the decision of one student, Anat Malkin, to drop out of her graduate program after two years. If he were a college student and tried to get away with this garbage, he would indeed be flunked – not for his conservatism, but for his mendacity. preach violent anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, cheer on the killing of American soldiers. "[10], In the National Review, Alston B. Ramsay wrote: "For anyone who has monitored higher education's pulse rate even cursorily during the last three decades, the central premise of The Professors will come as no surprise: Our universities have been hijacked by a band of rabid, anti-intellectual liberals more concerned with advancing ideological agendas – usually of the "social justice" variety – than with educating students. But the weirdness of their notions isn't his real concern. Their common illusions ensured a common disillusion. Foner said, "Mr. Horowitz's 'chapter' on me is full of errors, beginning with the long quote with which he opens, which was written by someone else, not me. Each thumbnail portrait does its best to give us reasons not to invite its subject to the church picnic, especially if we're applying for the minister's job. ISBN 0895260034. . [5], The professor Todd Gitlin, who was included in the book, wrote a scathing response claiming that "Horowitz has absolutely no idea what I do in the classroom" and that his "idea of research is cherry-picking". Once on the run from the FBI. Lecturer in politics at Occidental College, California. Remember Ward Churchill, the Colorado professor who compared the victims of 9/11 to Nazis and said they deserved what they got? 456 pp. Horowitz is not entirely mistaken: some academics are indeed more wrongheaded than the devil himself. The fragmentation of their parents' and grandparents' generations has led to a splitting apart of commonality, and a typical freshman English class now includes sprinklings of functional illiterates, home-schooled Christians, angry hippie spawn, and a core constituency brought up on fast food, televised mayhem, and the family trip to Disney World as hajj. Nor did the holder of the Edward Said chair, Rashid Khalidi. The Northeastern University professor who likens the 9/11 terrorists to America’s Founding Fathers — and claims that al Qaeda’s jihad is a defensive one against the West, The Berkeley professor who supports the Ayatollah Khomeni, The self-described “civil liberties activist” who acts as North American head of Palestine Islamic Jihad — a terrorist group responsible for the suicide bombing murders of more than 100 civilians in the Middle East, The New York sociology professor who warned his fellow academics that their light workloads are under attack by “right-wingers” who “want us to put our noses to the grindstone just like everybody else”, The University of Pennsylvania law professor who believes that the black community should accommodate criminal behavior and find a “good middle ground between straightness and more extreme forms of lawbreaking”, The unrepentant former Weathermen leader (“I don’t regret setting bombs. "Columbia is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in the world and a place where all students can flourish, regardless of their background, race, or religion," she added. But to get into a debate about Horowitz is a waste of time, and accords his attacks a legitimacy they do not deserve. They and the university take seriously the responsibility to expose students to the modern world in all its complexity and to foster greater understanding of its diverse cultures and political systems.". Worried about the world, worried about the future, worried about kids. Horowitz uses quotes from the professors he names, and argues that two controversies involving former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers show that administrators refrain from challenging radicals. They speak ill of Israel. 10. Once awakened, as Horowitz's personal saga attests, the mind can move forward and find its own way. Recipient of the Woman of the Year Award from the National Leather Association, a sadomasochist, fetish, bondage organization. Bernardine Dohrn. Davis teaches the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America, Kindle, EPUB, PDF, AZW, Audio Book, Archive. Well, he's just the tip of the iceberg. "In fact, the burden of these essays is exactly the contrary. '”, The Stanford University professor who refers to jihadist suicide bombers as “martyrs” and denounces America on Al-Jazeera TV, The Penn State English professor who believes that teaching literature should be aimed at bringing about “economic transformations”, The former Black Panther leader, now a prominent law professor, who teaches that “racist and white supremacist and exploitative practices are engrained” in American society and government, The Columbia University professor who called for a “million Mogadishus” — the 1993 military ambush in Somalia that killed 18 Americans, The criminology professor at the University of Colorado who gives final exams that require students to “Make the case for gay marriage” and to explain why the United States liberation of Iraq is “criminal”, The Washington state professor who helped found the separatist organization MEChA, which seeks to establish an independent Hispanic state, “Atzlan,” in the American Southwest, The University of Oregon professor who considers the collapse of the Soviet empire a setback for human progress, The City University of New York professor who teaches that blacks are morally and culturally superior to whites, and that “Jews are a race of skunks and animals that stole Africa from the Black Man”, The California State University department chairman — and creator of the African-American holiday Kwanzaa — who was convicted in 1971 of torturing two female members of his radical organization, The education professor who teaches that rap music is an effective tool for teaching English literacy to school children, and that proper English is the language of white “oppressors”, The University of Michigan anthropology professor — recipient of a Woman of the Year award from a sadomasochist-rights groups — who argues that the government’s crackdown on child molesters is a “savage and undeserved witch hunt”, The widely respected “queen of queer theory” who teaches that literary texts are little more than embodiments of radical political causes, The Brooklyn College professor who calls religious people “moral retards,” and characterizes America as a “fascist state”. Frank J. Cervino. Collectively, they posit that the hijackers had their reasons. Based on the new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Regnery—a HUMAN EVENTS sister company). Horowitz accuses Eric Foner, former president of the American Historical Association of being an "apologist for American Communism."

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