Doing my part to keep things going while JK is gone... David Horowitz, long-time civil rights activist and currently director of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture details the ways in which academic leftists largely control the thoughts of students in America's universities.
"In the sixties and seventies centrist liberals controlled academic faculties. Because they were committed to pluralistic values, they opened the door to Marxists and other political ideologues. But as soon as the ideologues reached a critical mass on these faculties, they closed the doors behind them. The feudal hierarchies of the university made it relatively easy to create the closed system that is evident today."
"But my greatest gratification came afterward,... What this black student told her roommate when my speech was concluded was how much she had learned by coming to the event. "Everything I have been told all my life," she said, "has been a lie."
Posted by JohnGalt at May 1, 2003 12:21 AM