On April 6, David Horowitz spoke at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, about his latest book, One Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy,
Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.
Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more plausible. Today, I see our own educators playing a similar role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.
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In these disciplines, Horowitz reasoned that students are given controversial opinions as scientific fact, and denied access to opposing arguments due to professors’ failures to assign readings on the other side of the issues.