From the Writings of David Horowitz: April 30, 2010


Huey Long was once asked whether he thought fascism could ever come to America. His answer was “Yeah, but it’ll come calling itself anti-fascism.” America isn’t close to such a future, but I couldn’t help thinking about Long’s comment in connection with an episode that occurred recently at my alma mater.
The occasion was a conference [...]

Roger Kimball: Howard Zinn Professor of Contempt – National Review Online


With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — every left-wing cliché with which the academy has abetted its sense of election these past several decades. “You see how smart he is,” saith the [...]

Collaborators in the War Against the Jews: Jennifer Loewenstein


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For this professional Israel-basher, Hamas is really just a peace movement.

Joseph Massad at UCLA: Gay-Bashing 101


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A Columbia professor claims that homosexuality is an imperialist plot against the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Class Warfare Entrenched: Indoctrination in Higher Education


From Accuracy in Academia:
In Boston, an English professor is trying to sell his class on society’s collective guilt when said students are already believers in personal responsibility. “We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,” [...]

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