Can the Right Afford to Neglect Academia?

US Daily Review ^ | September 9, 2011 | Chidike Okeem

[BUSHdude2000]

It is common for right-wingers to inveigh against academia and the elitism that it gives rise to—especially where sociology and the social sciences are concerned. The impulse for this attitude is certainly understandable. Manifestly, academia is dominated by liberal elitists and has become an unremitting factory for disastrous left-wing ideas—ideas that have incontestably ruined societies and communities where they have been implemented. However, there is a fundamental distinction between critiquing the liberal bent of academia and glibly dismissing academia as a whole.

If conservatism is going to continue to be a robust movement, rather than an ideology of insubstantial and repetitious slogans—much like liberalism has been reduced to—there has to be a vigorous intellectual movement that goes along with any populism. In other words, we need Heather Mac Donalds to go along with our Sarah Palins. While think tanks are respectable and important, the right has to develop a strategy to take back academic institutions. However, before academia can be retrieved from the grasp of liberals, it must first be understood that social sciences, sociology, and academia are not evil things per se, but they can lead to deleterious consequences when placed in the wrong hands.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Academia" will not exist in its current form in ten years.

College tuition costs have gone up 900% since 1978 because of one thing; overcharging students who are too dumb to realize that burying themselves in student loans is a very bad idea.

That bubble is about to burst.

And when it does, "academia" is going to burst with it.

[rfp1234]

Let the next POTUS nominate Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, or Walter E. Williams, and Newt to major cabinet posts and let’s see what happens.

[rfp1234]

Let the next POTUS nominate Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, or Walter E. Williams, and Newt to major cabinet posts and let’s see what happens.

[rfp1234]

But first, eliminate the Redundancy Dept. of Redundancy.

[FlingWingFlyer]

While think tanks are respectable and important, the right has to develop a strategy to take back academic institutions.

Bingo! We need to make our colleges and universities institutions of higher learning instead of being institutions of indoctrination that tell their students that they know everything that there is to know and that they are the smartest humans who have ever lived just because they have a diploma. A diploma hanging on the wall is not a substitute for having the ability to think.

[Cicero]

Lots of luck. Much of academia is past saving. There’s no way conservatives can change the balance, because the liberals are in charge of HIRING. And if any slip through, then they are mostly eliminated in the tenure proceedings.

A good analogy is monastic reform, which is where academia was through the middle ages. You cannot reform a sick religious order. You have to start a new, reformed order, and let the old ones die out.

Not an easy thing to do, especially since gubbermints will be reluctant to let the state-run universities close down. The private ones will eventually go out of business if new ones are founded that can do a better job for their students.

None of this will happen over night.

[GladesGuru]

“But first, eliminate the Redundancy Dept. of Redundancy.”

Dat be racis!

Dose edumacators be union members. Dem not gonna get jobs ‘cept in union run schools.

Sorry - must have accidentally pushed my ‘Inner Ebonics’ button.

[13Sisters76]

Parents, who are paying for this outrage, need to stand up. They need to take back the schools at the local level, and start demanding some value for the big bucks they pay to these colleges.

I really believe that most people don’t understand just how much of the damage to our country and our culture has been done in the public schools and the universities. It’s well past time for push back.

[cripplecreek]

At this point I think we need less colleges and more trade schools. A nation that can’t build from scratch is screwed.

That isn’t to say that we shouldn’t have college students learning the right stuff but few of the liberal arts produce anything of value. More engineering and hard sciences.

[hinckley buzzard]

You may be right. The current ossified institutional structures are frankly beyond redemption. With notable exceptions like Hillsdale and Grove City and a few Catholic schools which are actually Catholic, the academy is caught in the death grip of leftwing psychopaths.

They won't hire conservative faculty, no matter how well qualified; They won't publish research supporting conservative analyses(see the global warming/ censorship issue) no matter how compelling. Grant making agencies won't provide the financial support to develop a conservative-friendly curriculum.

I don't know how you break that stranglehold except go around it. Alternative means such as online learning may be the only way to keep the lamp of learning lit in the gathering totalitarian darkness.

[eclecticEel]

We can’t ignore the elephant in the room: as long as universities are overwhelmingly funded by the State, they’re going to be filled with Statists.

[lurk]

Academia, another way to spell irrelevant or unnecessary.

[BUSHdude2000]

Absolutely right. Local and state governments need to start taking powers back to the local level, and let it begin with education.

[ConservativeDude]

While think tanks are respectable and important, the right has to develop a strategy to take back academic institutions. “

An alternative strategy yes. Take back? Probably not.

An alternative set of institutions, probably so: many great alternatives out there. Christendom College, Patrick Henry, New St. Andrew’s; the Southern Baptist seminaries, University of Dallas grad programs in the humanities; Baylor; the Pontifical Institutes, etc. Even St. John’s is not a bad bet (at least the curriculum is appropriate).

[ilovesarah2012]

We need Affirmative Action for conservatives!

[EDINVA]

” ...the liberals are in charge of HIRING.”

Same problem with ‘journalism.’ They really don’t have a great deal of their self-proclaimed ‘tolerance’ for ideas other than their own. Oh, they’ll occasionally hire a ‘conservative’ so long as they’re not TOO conservative, for window dressing, but it ends there.

[ConservativeDude]

See my post 15. You are right. Expending too much energy in “reform” is unfruitful.

Start again, outside of the old order.

The monasteries in the “dark ages” are also a point here worthy of consideration. And sort of a frightening point, as well, as we enter a new dark ages possibly....

[Steelfish]

Keep Dreamin’
Parents don’t give a hoot so long as their kids get into name-brand colleges even if Marxists in sheep’s clothing saturate the faculty. Just like the requirement of diversity as a condition for government funds, have universities file annual forms to demonstrate diversity of political thought and affiliation. Or in one stroke abolish the Dept. of Education, and appoint arch-conservatives to all accrediting bodies.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I agree. Affirmative Action for Americans would be cool too! Maybe a DREAM Act for Americans.

[bronxville]

Monastic Reform is an excellent time proven analogy.

[wintertime]

Ping

[ken21]

we got into this mess because the right ignored the public schools and universities

and let the left take over.

[blueunicorn6]

Well, part of me says that we should keep the guns in the house and maybe let the communists take over because the first thing they would do is put plastic bags over the heads of all these Democrat professors. but then, another part of me says that that many plastic bags would cause a plastic bag shortage and then the bread would rot and good people would get hurt.

[blueunicorn6]

Well, part of me says that we should keep the guns in the house and maybe let the communists take over because the first thing they would do is put plastic bags over the heads of all these Democrat professors. But then, another part of me says that that many plastic bags would cause a plastic bag shortage and then the bread would rot and good people would get hurt.

[BUSHdude2000]

Yes, there certainly is that argument to consider. Not to mention the damage the bags do to the environment.

[nathanbedford]

The need to reform academia as a matter of existential survival for conservatism is clear.

Normally, the way to control an institution is by controlling the purse. That will probably remain true but it is not easily predictable how the university system will continue to be financed. Obviously, the university system is coming rapidly to a reckoning. It is pricing itself beyond the ability of its customers to pay. Its cost exceeds its value except as a ticket punch when issued by an institution of prestige. For most of its customers, the prestige of a degree from one university is not much to be envied over a sheepskin from another university. Likewise, the university experience in the quality of the education does not vary nearly as much as the prestige factor implies.

But the system is coming to a crash because Uncle Sugar is coming to a crash. The system by which the feds pass out federal grants to loopy professors must inevitably come to an end. At least it must come to an end in the pseudo-sciences. Questions of federalism and doctrinaire conservatism aside, the country somehow needs to fund hard science research which is done through our university system and is the envy of the world.

As these twin fiscal imperatives bear down on the universities, the system inevitably will change.

There is a 3rd factor which will both accelerate and shape the change precipitated by the looming shortage of money: technology. There is no reason why students cannot take survey course lectures over the Internet. In fact, there is no reason for students physically to reside in the university campus only to look at their laptops and monitor a lecture. As the medieval lecture system becomes automated, the ivory tower is liable to become a relic.

Of course, huge part of the university experience is the social interaction among the students and between students and faculty. To a large but not exclusive degree that interaction requires physical presence on campus. But even here technology is sweeping the archaic and immensely expensive tutorial system aside. Is there any reason why seminars cannot be conducted over Skype?

If the country experiences a crash and an economic seachange, look for the universities to begin to offer up courses which are of actual rather than theoretical value in the marketplace. In other words, the American university system will move closer to the German model.

With all of these changes mixing together it is impossible to predict what will emerge and it is equally difficult to fashion reforms that will prove palatable to conservatives.

It is clear that the professors will do what professors do in an effort to shape the debate and federalize and socialize the university system while leaving themselves unaccountable in their fiefdoms. Left-wing legislators will attempt to appease the professors and mollify the parents by subsidizing tuition. But the ability of the federal government to do so is coming to an end. There is a very good chance that entrepreneurial capitalism just might break out on the college level and professors might actually go into the business of competitively offering real education.

The great depression forced universities in the South, for example, to the most innovative programs to keep their doors open. We can expect a modern version of the same if federal largess ends. There will be few enough campus, like Harvard, with billions of dollars in Legacy funds. The bulk of the universities will have to experience what we call "capitalism."

[RowdyFFC]

What a crock, a LOT of us right-wingers and our kids have all walked the hallowed halls of academia...we just educated our kids to ignore the KRAP and pull out the skills they need to accomplish the amount of success they need to keep themselves in a comfortable lifestyle they choose.

I myself have walked those hallowed halls and have four sheepskins on my wall and get to be called Dr. Rowdy by my students. I’m just aware that this does not mean that I can claim to be a great ‘intellectual’ nor does it allow me to claim to be ‘elite’ since the world is chock full of people who can claim that title. Nor does it mean you’re some kind of genius. To me a genius is somebody who can heal the sick with new discoveries they came upon in their studies. Or invented something through scientific discovery that is way useful to society as a whole.

When you have spent your life studying a subject and use the knowledge to start others on their journey of discoveries it is a really nice thing to do. But the fact is, your head in the process gets filled with a lot of KRAP that is never useful, but just fun and interesting to know.

Some people think all this KRAP in their head gives them almost divine powers of omnipotence...but if you’ve ever studied the Classics for real or even some scientific pieces...some of those dudes were really whacked out in la la land...but kind of interesting. But not nearly as interesting to me as a good psycho serial killer piece of fiction by John Sanford or James Patterson.

And then sometimes even after studying all the grand textbooks available, you run across a book just laying out there that kind of pulls it all together for you, like a piece of non-fiction by Jared Diamond entitled ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. Simple research, simple concepts if your study is the civilizations.

The problem with leftists is they enjoy all the high browed assumptions about conservatives that aren’t so...oh shoot, somebody already said that, didn’t they?

[Mach9]

All so true. But I often wonder why Corporate America isn’t held to account for perpetuating, first, the degree-requirement itself and, second, the crony alma mater (usually spelled IVY) preference. Even when businesses don’t buy into the exaggerated Harvard education myth, they still accept the notion that one’s classmates and graduate associations contribute as much to one’s value as knowledge, personality, drive, and character. They’ve abetted the reduction of most universities to ineffective but prosperous trade schools or, worse, a 4-year time-served ticket for even more bloated degrees.

Point is that more than academia needs reform.

[Little Bill]

You are absolutely correct. My son is a diesel mechanic he works a normal 50 hour week and then another 20 hours sub tabula. People cannot get skilled trades men with a work ethic.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just as the new, conservative media is rising up (and the Leftist media is crumbling) there is a need also for new schools to be created from primary to post-secondary levels.

Why do we enjoy more liberalized gun laws? Because conservatives got together and created strategies and tactics on achieving such. The conservatives need to do the same with education.

Conservatives need to undermine the Left’s agenda by becoming active leaders first in the home and then in religion, government/law, education, the media, and business. The next generation also must be encouraged to become leaders in these institutions.

Just as Christianity rose from the ashes from the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire so too do the Conservatives need to supplant the Leftist-dominated institutions, that are being used to destroy Western civilization from within, with their own.

It seems like an impossible job but in order to achieve Conservative dominance we need to look at this both in a long-term as well short-term manner.

[hosepipe]

Better... make Freedom a federal law..
That ALL States become “right to work” States..
That it is ILLEGAL to force Union membership anywhere..

Union membership should be totally voluntary..
I know this BOMBASTIC!!.. freedom FORCED on the unions...
Is America FOR freedom or NOT!...?..

True... Wisconsin citizens will have a COW!...
And will grunt the first grunts of slavery..
But then... it is Wisconsin... it should be expected..

[Paperdoll]

Not only have they neglected academia, they pay enormous amounts of money to support it by sending their offspring
there for super indoctrination!

[wintertime]

Charles Murray is right. We need to move to a private system of certifiable qualifying exams.

With the Internet, education could be free to the consumer. If the producers of the material on the Internet and the private testers accepted advertising they could even become as rich as Mark Zuckerman. The amount of time spent on campus could be reduced to zero for many professions and significantly reduced for those requiring laboratory courses and personal mentoring.

By the way, course material could start in kindergarten. Once the child mastered the material from a specific topic he would **immediately** move to the next level. Imagine! Instead of languishing for 13 years in government schools children could finish **YEARS** earlier. Even starting a career a few years early could result in several hundred thousands of dollars ( maybe even a million or more) in earned income for that young adult.

[wintertime]

Jack,

Please read my post #34.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Thanks!

[robowombat]

Typical is the biography of Ludwell Johnson at William and Mary. He got on the tenure track decades ago and flew largely below the radar mostly by publishing in professional journals. His articles are careful very scholarly and he never loads them up with the rhetoric laden paragraphs libs love to do since they can get away with it with journal editors. Johnson survived by becoming a sort of academic invisible man. Students who sought him out fou d him accessible and unlike most tenured academics was willing to discuss and politely debate the interpretation f course materials. Johnson himself late in his career admitted that he felt like he had to keep a low profile to not get a mau mauing by libs on the faculty and from the lib student alphabet organizations.

[robowombat]

Typical is the biography of Ludwell Johnson at William and Mary. He got on the tenure track decades ago and flew largely below the radar mostly by publishing in professional journals. His articles are careful very scholarly and he never loads them up with the rhetoric laden paragraphs libs love to do since they can get away with it with journal editors. Johnson survived by becoming a sort of academic invisible man. Students who sought him out fou d him accessible and unlike most tenured academics was willing to discuss and politely debate the interpretation f course materials. Johnson himself late in his career admitted that he felt like he had to keep a low profile to not get a mau mauing by libs on the faculty and from the lib student alphabet organizations.

[Haddit]

Bettina Aptheker
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2165
Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Communist and lesbian activist
Daughter of Herbert Aptheker
“We should make no mistake between the kinds of diplomacy Hitler’s regime engaged in during the 1930s and the kinds of diplomacy the Bush administration has engaged in.”
Palestinian terrorists are “anti-occupation activists”.

Herbert Aptheker
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1517
Chief theoretician of the American Communist Party
Prolfic Communist propagandist and writer
Founded the American Institute for Marxist Studies
1967 traveled to Hanoi with Tom Hayden and Staughton Lynd
professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania
Professor at the University of California, the City University of New York, and the University of Santa Clara
He is dead

Leighton Armitage
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2166

Adjunct professor at the Foothill College in Northern California
Believes that Jewish “Nazis” control U.S. government

Nan Aron
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1090

Staff attorney for the National Prison Project
Founder of Co/Motion and the Student Action Campaign
Founder of Alliance for Justice
Taught at Georgetown and George Washington University Law Schools
Serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council at American University’s Washington College of Law
Established Co-Motion, an anti-gun-ownership initiative.

Stanley Aronowitz
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2167

Professor of Sociology at City University of New York
Indoctrinates his students with Marxist Politics
A proponent of shorter work weeks
Teaches one two-hour course each week—a seminar in Marxism
A former union organizer
Member of Democratic Socialists of America
Ran for New York Governor’s seat on Green Party ticket

Regina Austin
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2168

Professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania
Believes the black community should accommodate criminal behavior and find “good middle ground between straightness and more extreme forms of lawbreaking.”
Her approach to teaching law rests on her belief that “law is useful as a supplement to activism.”

Brian Avery
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2089

Anti-Israel activist
Former member of the International Solidarity Movement
Frequently speaks on college campuses about the Israeli government’s brutality, of which he claims to be a living example
Working on an agricultural research program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh

Michael Avery
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1383
Former President of National Lawyers Guild
Served in various capacities for the ACLU
Cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights
He is a law professor and Director of the Macaronis Civil Litigation Concentration at the Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts

Mubarek Awad
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2090
Professor of Conflict Resolution at American University
A leader in the First Palestinian Intifada until Israel deported him in 1988
“Palestinian armed struggle against the occupation is both morally and legally legitimate.”
“I am telling you loud and clear there can not be a Jewish state in the Middle East. It is impossible.”

Bill Ayers
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169
Leader of the 1960s and 70s domestic terrorist group Weatherman
“Kill all the rich people…Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”
Participated in the bombings of New York Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
Currently a professor o education at the University of Illinois

Mohammed Ayoob
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2374
Professor of International Relations at James Madison College and Michigan State University
Aims to debunk what he describes as Westerners’ misconception that Islam is “monolithic [and] violent”
Claims that the Islamic world’s anti-Americanism is rooted not in aggression but rather in a “quest for dignity”

Dr. Jamal Badawi
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1009
Taught a course on Islam at Stanford University, then went on to become a professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), in the Departments of Religious Studies and Management.
Outlined six different conditions in which a wife may properly be beaten.

Michael Ballou
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=758
Professor at Santa Rosa Junior College
Gave students an assignment to compose an e-mail message using the words “kill the President.”

Amiri Baraka AKA Everett Leroy Jones AKA LeRoi Jones
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2171
Very Radical racist and “Third World Marxist-Leninist”
Taught at the New School for Social Research in New York
The University of Buffalo
Columbia University
San Francisco State University
Yale University
George Washington University
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Rutgers University

David P. Barash
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2172
Professor of psychology at the University of Washington
Co-author of Peace and Conflict Studies, a text that is widely used in peace studies classes
Just another anti-American teacher

Linda Basch
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1850
Was Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology at Wagner College
Director of Special Programs at New York University
Dean of Arts and Sciences at Manhattan College
A Globalist, she has authored:
Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects
Postcolonial Predicaments
Deterritorialized Nation States
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

Hatem Bazian
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2173
lecturer in the Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments at UC Berkeley
Taught at Berkeley
San Francisco State University
Berkeley Graduate Theological Union
Diablo Valley College
Lectured at George Washington High School in San Francisco
“We’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an intifada in this country that change fundamentally the political dynamics in here” “They’re gonna say, ‘some Palestinian being too radical’-—well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet.”

Craig Becker
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2430
former UCLA professor
former attorney for the AFL-CIO and SEIU
Obama appointment to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
“At first blush it might seem fair to give workers the choice to remain unrepresented” “Just as U.S. citizens cannot opt against having a congressman, workers should not be able to choose against having a union as their monopoly-bargaining agent.”

Marc Becker
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2174
Professor of Latin American History at Truman State University
Condemns capitalism and America’s excessive militarism.
“Columbus’ actions,” “launched an era of modern colonialism, rape, pillage, genocide, cultural destruction, slavery, economic and environmental devastation.”

Joel Beinin
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2146
Middle East history professor at Stanford University
Former President of Middle East Studies Association
Blames US and Israel for Middle East conflict
Passionately anti-Israel
Influenced the education of middle and high school students through the Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).

Derrick Bell
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2175
Professor at New York University School of Law
Proponent of Critical Race Theory
Supporter of race preferences favoring non-whites in business and academia
Taught at Harvard University
Was dean of the University of Oregon School of Law
Taught at Stanford Law School

Marvin Berlowitz
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2176
Director of the Urban Center for Peace Education and Research at the University of Cincinnati
Marvin Berlowitz is Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Cincinnati (UC), and the Director of the Urban Center for Peace Education and Research — a collective of leftwing professors aiming to indoctrinate students in Marxist ideology. A committed Marxist, Berlowitz teaches that “Privatization must be resisted.”

Mary Frances Berry
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2177
Professor at University of Pennylvania
Admirer of Mao Zedong
Did have an administrative posts at the University of Maryland
Was Chancellor of the University of Colorado
Racist

Donald Berwick
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2471
Was professor at Harvard
July 7, 2010 recess appointment by Obama
For redistribution of wealth
Opposes free-market healthcare
Advocates rationing of care
Pediatrician

Amy Bishop
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/23/the-top-7-violent-left-wingers-youre-not-supposed-to-remember/3/
On February 12, 2010, University of Alabama Professor Amy Bishop opened fire during a biology department meeting, killing three of her colleagues and injuring three more. As Michelle Malkin has documented, Bishop had an assault record, and students and professors had raised concerns about her mental state. She also may have murdered her brother in 1986.
A far-right professor? Nope—her political views were reportedly in line with the average academic. On February 15, the Boston Herald reported that a “family source” described Bishop as “a far left political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with President Obama to the point of being off putting.” On RateMyProfessors.com, students described her as a “liberal” and a “socialist” in a comment that has apparently been since removed.
Granted, Bishop was apparently motivated by fear of losing her job, not politics, but if we’re going by the rationale put forth by Paul Krugman and company, who’s to say the “culture of hostility” her fellow travelers fostered had nothing to do with her seeing “Second Amendment solutions” as a legitimate way to solve her problems?
Lee Bollinger
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1253
President of Columbia University
Former President of University of Michigan Law School
Proponent of racial preferences in college admissions

Julian Bond
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=642
Holds a chair in History and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia
Distinguished Professor at American University
Has taught at Harvard
Endorsed by the Communist Party
Participated in Communist political forums
Campaigned for Communist politicians
Republicans’ “idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side”

Bob Bossie
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1075
Catholic priest
America is a warlike nation with endemic racism, sexism and classism

Roy Bourgeiois
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2356
An excommunicated Catholic priest
Hates America, Bush
Loves Hugo Chavez
Talks at universities and churches

Barbara Bowen
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1078
Professor at the City University of New York
Featured guest speaker at the 2004 Socialist Scholars Conference
After 9/11, signed a statement blaming the U.S. for inflicting “widespread suffering on innocent people in such places as Iraq, Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Territories, the former Yugoslavia and Latin America.”

William Bowen
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1754
Former president of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1988 to 2006
Former president of Princeton University
Moved Mellon Foundation left with racial preferences and environmental advocacy.
The foundation expanded its “Conservation and Environment Program (CEP), which embraces the tenets of n anti-capitalist, anti-development worldview

Selma Brackman
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1732
A frequent lecturer at several New York City universities
About World War II: “Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. …How could one reconcile the United States fighting in World War II for the rights of nations to independence and self determination, with its history of expansion, its 100-year war against native Indians driving them off their ancestral lands, its 250 years of enslavement of Africans, it’s war with Mexico, and taking almost half their lands and sending marines almost 20 times into the countries of the Caribbean? Seizing Hawaii and fighting a brutal war to subjugate the Philippines. And sending of 5,000 marines into Nicaragua in 1929. This nation could hardly claim to believe in the rights of self determination. Neither the invasion of Austria, nor Czechoslovakia nor Poland, brought the United States into armed conflict with fascism. We went to war only when our processions in Hawaii were attacked and when our navy was disabled by Japanese bombs.”

Laurie Brand
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2180
Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California
Former President of the Middle Eastern Studies Association
Anti-Israel/Anti-America crusader

Elaine Brown
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1696
Former member of the Black Panthers
Highly sought-after speaker on American college campuses
Ordered the murder of Black Panther bookkeeper Betty Van Patter
“It is a sensuous thing to know that at one’s will, an enemy can be struck down.”

Paul Buhle
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2020
You don’t want your child anywhere near this man
Radical professor of American Civilization at Brown University
Former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Former member of the Socialist Labor Party
Prominent in the Democratic Socialists of America
Board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society
“Our task is to use all means available to combat the global race to the bottom; to help students, colleagues and the public understand that capitalism’s much vaunted progress endangers everything we hold dear.”

Judith Butler
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2443
Professor of rhetoric and comparative literature, with specialties in the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics
Rejects Israel’s right to exist as an independent Jewish state
Has been a leader in the campaign to impose a worldwide boycott on Israeli universities.
Taught at Wesleyan University, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University
Presently at UC Berkeley
“It’s very hard to speak freely right now, but many gay people are uncomfortable with all this, because they feel their sense of an alternative movement is dying. Sexual politics was supposed to be about finding alternatives to marriage.”

Calvin Butts
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1935
President of the State University of New York’s College at Old Westbury on Long Island.
Taught Black Church History at Fordham University and was an adjunct professor in City College of New York’s African Studies Department.
Admirers Malcolm X, referring to him as an “inspiring figure” and “our black shining prince”.
In 1992 Butts, angry over the fact that blacks patronized Korean businesses that allegedly disrespected black customers, called for “massive civil disobedience” that would “disrupt business as usual.”
Butts called for a consumer boycott of white businesses.
Butts hosted Fidel Castro at the Abyssinian Baptist Church. There, in front of a crowd of 1,300, including several local Democratic office holders such as Charles Rangel, Jose Serrano, and Nydia Velazquez, Butts lavished praise on the honored guest. “It is in our tradition to welcome all who are visionaries, revolutionaries and who seek the liberation of all people”.

Nancy Duff Campbell
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1780
Co-founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center.
Unrestricted access to abortion-on-demand, increased welfare, gender preferences in hiring, promotions, and college admissions, and the depiction of women as victims of rampant societal sexism and discrimination.
Taught at Georgetown University Law Center and Catholic University School of Law

Eduardo Capulong
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=863
Law professor at the University of Montana
Was acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law, and as Director of Public Interest and Public Policy Programs at Stanford Law School.
Served as litigator for the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
Member of International Socialist Organization and a regular contributor to Socialist Worker Online.
Capitalism is an “inhuman” economic system.
Capulong is a board member of the International Endowment for Democracy. Among his fellow IED board members and officials are such leftist luminaries as Mumia Abu-Jamal (the cop killer), Ramsey Clark, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn (dead commie), Bernardine ‘stick a fork in it’ Dohrn, Joel Kovel, Michael ratner, Lynn Stewart, and Leonard Weinglass.

[Haddit]

Thomas Castellano
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2182
Professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology
Taught at Southern Illinois University
Blames US imperialist policies for 911
Military tribunals are an affront to due process of law
Deported immigrants have been robbed of civil rights

Noam Chomsky
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232
Teaches at MIT’s Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Denied that Cambodia’s Pol Pot killed 2 million of its 7.8 million people.
9/11 dwarfed by America’s 1998 missile attack on a factory in the Sudan.
America is “the world’s greatest terrorist state”
Afghanistan is a calculated genocide
Bradley Manning is a man of “courage” and “integrity”

Jane Christensen
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1900
Dead
Former Associate Professor of political science at North Carolina Wesleyan College
Anti-Semite
Bush had advanced knowledge of 9/11

Ward Churchill
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1835
Former Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder
9/11 victims “little Eichmanns”
America is a genocidal nation
Lied about being an American Indian
Plagiarist

Ramsey Clark
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=781
worked as a Law Professor
Former U.S. Attorney General
Founder of International Action Center, which is staffed by members of the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist vanguard

Reverend Kenneth I. Clarke
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1237
director of Cornell United Religious Work
was director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs at Pennsylvania State University
America must “see itself through the eyes of other nations” who have been victims of U.S. “colonialism and imperialism”.

Kathleen Cleaver
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2250
Senior lecturer in Law at Emory University
Former Communications Secretary for the Black Panther Party
Former wife of Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver
Teaches that “ racist and white supremacist and exploitative practices are engrained” in American society and government.

Dana Cloud
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2183
Professor at the University of Texas
Member of the International Socialist Organization
Calls America “a corrupt nation”
The day after 9/11, she stated, “the United States military has, in recent years, been the most effective and constant killer of civilians around the world.”

David Cole
Professor of law at Georgetown University
Radical attorney-activist who has repeatedly defended supporters of terrorism
Believes that the “greatest threat to our freedoms is posed not by the terrorists themselves but by our own government’s response.”
Cole portrayed terrorism as a free speech issue: “Excluding people for their ideas is flatly contrary to the spirit of freedom for which the United States stands.” He wrote.

Juan Cole
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1782
University of Michigan professor of Middle East and South Asian history
Former President of the Middle East Studies Association
Believes that a “pro-Likud” cabal controls the American government from a small number of key positions within the Executive Branch
Decries the term” Islamo-fascist” as a “thoroughly abhorrent” form of bigotry, even as he routinely brands Zionism as “racist” and “fascist”.

James Cone
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2315
Professor of Systematic Theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City
View America as an irredeemably racist nation
“What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of Blak people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

“This country was founded for whites and everything that has happened in it has emerged from the white perspective. What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.”

Mariam Cooke
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2185
Duke University professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature
“9/11 has a long history going back through the Gulf War to the establishment of Israel in 1948”

Patrick Coy
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2186
Associate professor at Kent State University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management
“It is not just Saddam Hussein whose actions threaten UN credibility. George W. Bush may be the greater long-term threat.”
The main influence on Coy’s brand of radical politics is the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.

Douglas Crimp
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1962
Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester in New York
AIDS activist and “queer politics” theoretician
“What many of us have lost is a culture of sexual possibility: back rooms, tea rooms, movie houses, and baths; the trucks, the piers, the ramble, the dunes…sex was everywhere for us, and everything we wanted to venture…now our untamed impulses are either prescribed once again or shielded from us by latex.”

Bruce Cumings
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2308
Professor in History at the University of Chicago
Taught at Swarthmore College and the University of Washington
Refuses to acknowledge that communism has been the cause of North Korea’s economic catastrophes.

John D’Emilio
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1996
Professor of History, Gender Studies, and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Founded the first gay think-tank ad legislative lobbying group, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Hamid Dabashi
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2187
Professor of Islamic Studies at Columbia University
Calls Israel “a military base for the rising predatory empire of the United States”

Lawrence Davidson
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2367
• Professor of modern Middle Eastern history
at West Chester University in Pennsylvania
• Advocates complete U.S. divestment from Israel
• Characterizes Palestinian terrorism as the inevitable and logical outgrowth of Israeli depredations
• Contends that Hamas does “charitable work”

Angeles Davis
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
• Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
• Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
• Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis’ imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
• Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
• Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
• “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

Gregory Dawes
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2188
• Marxist professor at North Carolina State University
• Edits a militant Marxist journal
• Attacks Latin American Studies departments for “political accommodationism” and urges universities to adopt a more revolutionary posture “to overcome capitalism and imperialism”
• Believes that Communist China and Cuba have been “successful in instituting political and economic democracy.”

Nicholas De Genova
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2189
• Assistant professor of Anthropology at Columbia University
• Called for an “anticolonial struggle” by Iraqis that would lead to a “million Mogadishus” – a reference to a 1993 military debacle in Somalia that cost 18 American lives
•
Bernardine Dohrn
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190
• Leader of the domestic terrorist group Weatherman
• Participated in the bombings of New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
• Delighted in Charles Manson’s infamous murders
• Director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University
• Professor at Northwestern University Law School

Peter Dreier
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2421

• Professor of Politics at Occidental College
• Helped establish the Campaign for America’s Future in 1996
• Member of Progressives for Obama
• Longtime supporter of the community organization ACORN

Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College, where he also serves as director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program. He co-authored the books Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century (2005) and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City (2006). He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Prospect.

Ibrahim Dremali
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1113

• Radical Muslim cleric
• Told participants at an anti-Israeli rally not be afraid to die for what they believe in, providing a rationale for suicide bombings
Dremali is currently the Director of the Islamic Center of Greater Austin, the Director of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department at Austin PeaceAcademy, and a professor at the American Open University. He also serves as an advisor to the American Muslim Association of North America.

Shanta Driver
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2511
• National chair of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights
• Founder and national chair of By Any Means Necessary
• Supports affirmative action as a necessary safeguard against discrimination targeting nonwhites in the workplace and academia
• Since the mid-1990s, Driver has been a guest speaker—chiefly on the subject of affirmative action—at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. She also has addressed scores of civil-rights, professional, religious, political, and governmental organizations, including the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the National Alliance of Black School Educators, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the NAACP National Convention, the Tavis Smiley Foundation Youth2Leaders Conference, the National Bar Association, the American Sociological Association, Americans for Democratic Action, the Progressive National Baptist Convention, the National Organization for Women, and the Society of American Law Teachers.
•
Arne Duncan is the Secretary of Education
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2394
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75711
“Today, I promise you that under my leadership, the Department of Education will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society,”

“Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be good environmental citizens is some of the most important work any of us can do. It’s work that will serve future generations—and quite literally sustain our world,”

Robert Dunkley
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2191
Professor of Criminology, University of Northern Colorado
The foregoing items required students to: (1) demonstrate their knowledge of two leftwing theories (“power control theory” and “Integrated-Structural Marxism”); (2) demonstrate their knowledge of, and justification for, feminist law theory; (3) make the case for gay marriage; and (4) make the argument that the military action of the US attacking Iraq was criminal.

Anita Dunn
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2434
Obama’s communications director in 2009
Delivered a June 209 speech to high-school students in Maryland, where she cited Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers”

Michael Eric Dyson
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2192
Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University
Taught at University of North Carolina
Columbia University
DePaul University
University of Pennsylvania
Condems Bill Cosby
Member of Democratic Socialists of America
9/11 due to America’s imperialistic practices

Roger Ebert
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=962
Movie critic
Teaches film theory at the University of Chicago
Ebert boasted of his affiliations with the Students for a Democratic Society in his review of the 2003 documentary The Weather Underground: “I still have my membership card in Students for a Democratic Society,” he wrote, “signed by Tom Hayden, who handed it to me at a National Student Congress in 1963, and tucked the $1 membership fee in the pocket of his flannel shirt.”

Rick Eckstein
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2193
Sociology professor at Villanova University
teaches the course “War, Imperialism and Terrorism,” in whose syllabus he makes clear his belief that terrorism stems not from militant Islamic fundamentalism, but rather from inequities born of American capitalism.

Marian Wright Edelman
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1531
San Francisco State University established the Marian Wright Edelman Institute
Barnard College awarded her the Barnard Medal of Distinction
She received an honorary LL.D. from Bates College
At one time, Edelman served on the Board of the Saul Alinsky-created Industrial Areas Foundation. A passionate admirer of Alinsky

Barbara Ehrenreich
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058
Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America
Taught at UC Berkeley

Paul Ehrlich
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2194
Professor at Stanford University
Author of 1968 book The Population Bomb
“We’ve already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure.”

Carolyn Eisenberg
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2017
Professor of U.S. foreign policy at Hofstra University
Professor Eisenberg’s campus activism, both inside and outside the classroom, has not escaped the notice of her students. On the website RateMyProfessors.com, a considerable number of Eisenberg’s students note her virulent anti-Americanism and her habit of airing her personal political views in the classroom. Among the student comments are the following:
• “She hates America. She’s more like a communist than a liberal . . . Avoid her public lectures if you are patriotic or if you even like this country somewhat. She needs to move to France because that is where her ideology belongs.”
• “Very, very, very liberal. At least I’m allowed to express my views in class because I’m from the opposite side of the political spectrum, but class becomes like a battleground and it can get unpleasant.”
• “pretty easy grader, she is however very liberal and anti-American”
• “[D]o not take this class if you are patriotic. [D]o not take it if you have any common sense.”
• “This lady hates America! All she talks about is how America has ravaged the world. She blames the U.S. for everything from the [C]old [W]ar to some poor guy who slipped on a banana peel. Her class is nothing but a bash-America session. If you like America, steer clear from this lady!”

[bert]

It is the duty of the right to destroy academia. Academia as presently constituted is our enemy, much more harmful and destructive than Al Qeada.

[Mamzelle]

Nice essay, worthy of its own thread.

[BenKenobi]

“And sort of a frightening point, as well, as we enter a new dark ages possibly....”

The age is only dark because we possess little documentation from the period.

Perhaps I’m odd, but I don’t believe that things at present will be as bad as they are sold to be, but another ‘dark’ age is entirely possible.

[grey_whiskers]

And smug, entitled, intellectually inbred leftist professors in the humanities; professors on the make for govt. grants in the sciences, who nonetheless feel that grants are theirs by right in honor of their superior intellect and attainments (as measured by them); and overarching all of it, clueless, empire-building, PC administrators backed up by bean-counting MBAs.

Cheers!

[A_perfect_lady]

Colleges and universities constantly receive blank intellectual canvases as students for liberal professors to artistically turn into walking Marxist masterpieces.

I'd go him one further and say conservatives need to be a part of public schools, because those kids aren't blank slates. They've been carefully prepped for years by liberals at the public school level, and most of the teachers are liberal because conservatives abandoned the teaching profession. The excuse was that they are unionized, and our conservatives here at FR are far too pure to sully themselves in such a manner, but I suspect the real reason has to do with the pay and the difficulty of the job.

[grey_whiskers]

Excellent post, as usual, nathan. (Thanks for commenting on the crusades on that other thread, too.)

Your third point is already alive and well:

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Cheers!

[robowombat]

Yes indeed ‘name brand schools’ with faculties stuffed with statists and Marxists. Both General Casey who proclaimed diversity to be more important than force protection and Gen Jones the milicrat National Security Adviser of BO are Georgetown grads and are VERY impressed with the received wisdom taught by the Solon's of Georgetown.

[Haddit]

Ron Gochez is a Los Angeles high school teacher. I heard on our local radio station, the John and Ken show, that Gochez was one of the activists protesting. He was also one of the teachers that went with other teachers and students to Arizona to protest their racist 1070 law. See FreeRepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2509669/posts?q=1&;page=1

Ron Gochez is a Los Angeles High School teacher, he has a video on youtube maybe 4 years old now where he is preaching his hatred towards America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybaDyMr1rs

This is my transcription:
“A revolutionary Mexican Organization”…” This is not just about Mexico, this is about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism. But we know that where we now stand is stolen occupied Mexico. And the message that we bring if you want to bring a little bit more of a revolutionary context to this, why is it that these people? These frail racist white people want to keep us out of this country. It’s not simply because of the color of our skin, it’s not simply because they just want to exploit us, let me tell you why. Because on this planet right now, 6 billion people at the forefront of the revolutionary movement is La Raza.”…

…”We have a long history and example of our comondante Fidel Castro Ruiz, Caesar Hugo Chaves, Eduardo Morales, we got Brazil, Equator, you name it, we are nine, nine ??? governments in Latin America right now, and they know something that a one young Argentine cockroach said, it was called a domino theory, and he knew that every single country would go revolutionary. One after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other.”

“So what do they fear? They know that every single country, they know that we no longer will fall for these lies called borders, they know that a Salvadorian, that a Guatemalan and a Nicaraguan and a Mexicano, there is no damn difference, we are all one people. So with that in mind, we see our selves, all of us here, as the Northern front of a Latin American revolutionary movement. There are more than 40 million of our people north of the Rio Grande. That means to them there is 40 million revolutionaries north of the border inside the belly of the beast. So when you think about why do they want to kick us of all people out, that’s why”.

“They know that we now know the truth. They know that we are La Raza, we’re professionals, we are educators, we are revolutionary students, what does that mean? We are just a regular culture anymore, we are a culture of revolutionary spirit. And that’s the fear.”

“So with that being said, I want to leave you with this, as a revolutionary and with revolutionary context, let us be clear about one thing, our enemy is not the minutemen, quote me, our enemy is not the minutemen, because the minutemen are not the ones who have killed over four thousand, six hundred people at those borders, our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chaves, that Hugo Chaves has, our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Africa poor, our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Asia poor, Our enemy is capitalism, imperialism.”

“And I’ll finish with this, I’ll finish with this to respect the time. If we are serious about making CHANGE, if you are serious about making CHANGE, let me tell you, the struggle will go on for many more years after we leave UCLA. Reading a book or writing a book, or teaching a class, that is not, that is not part of the movement. What you do 24 hours a day as a professional revolutionary, that is what is going to lead our people and our people to liberation. Viva La Raza.”

[marsh2]

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[onedoug]

General Leslie Groves who headed the atomic bomb project during WWII was continually getting hectored by his staff to squeeze out academia for their liberal leanings. Paraphrasing, Groves said something like, ¨Where do you expect me to find scientists if not at the universities?¨