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Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth Paperback – June 14, 2010
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Brainwashed is the explosive exposé of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro—syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices—who’s been on the front lines of the battle for America's young minds. This book proves once and for all that so-called higher education continues to sink lower and lower into the depths of liberal madness as close-minded professors turn their students into socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and sex-crazed narcissists.
In this book, author Ben Shapiro asks three critical questions:
- Why are universities so biased?
- Why do students take their professors at face value?
- What can we do to stop it?
In addition to outlining practical solutions as part of a multi-pronged strategy to deal with this problem, Brainwashed encourages students to
- consider the motives of their professors;
- pay attention to how professors use facts and editorialize during lectures; and
- ask questions, encourage debate, and think before buying into a professor’s mindset.
Praise for Brainwashed:
"Ben Shapiro's writing is smart, informative, and incisive. He is wise beyond his years without losing the refreshing fearlessness of youth." Ann Coulter, bestselling author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Slander, and Treason
"In Brainwashed, Shapiro tells the truth—that universities are forums of left-liberal indoctrination, where dissent is discouraged and penalized, with more restrictions on free speech rather any other part of American society. Parents who are paying for tuition might want to take note, and see what their hard-earned money is paying for." Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics
"Welcome to P.C. 101. In this trenchant insider's expose, Ben Shapiro bears witness to the modern American campus freak show. You'll get up close and personal with the Marxist loons, moral relativists, multicultural zealots, and American-haters who are corrupting young minds. Brainwashed reveals the ignominious lows to which higher education has sunk. Get deprogrammed. Buy this book!" Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of Invasion
"Sharp thinking, tight writing, crazy-but-true stories: Ben Shapiro sees campus brainwashing and raises a national protest. This is a good book to give both freshmen who need warning and voters/alumni who need to take action." Dr. Marvin Olasky, University of Texas professor and editor-in-chief of World magazine
"A worthy successor to God and Man at Yale and Harvard Hates America in exploring the belly of the academic beast." David Horowitz, founder of Students for Academic Freedom and author of Radical Son and Left Illusions
"What Animal House did for the toga party, Brainwashed should do for American resistance to campus radicalism." Rusty Humphries, nationally syndicated radio talk show host
- Print length242 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas Nelson
- Publication dateJune 14, 2010
- Dimensions6 x 0.9 x 9.05 inches
- ISBN-101595559795
- ISBN-13978-1595559791
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The scary thing is how many college age young people even realize what is happening to them. By the time they get to college they are already programmed to accept what their professors teach as gospel.
If you have an inquiring mind and are not willing to accept what is gong on in America today, especially with our young people - this is a must read.
As I write this review, the Philadelphia eagles just won the Superbowl. As an example of their joy, they celebrated by trashing their city.
This is a living example of the lack of respect,as well as the lack of true knowledge our youth is expected to be taught by our most prestigious universities, and their professors. The truth about loving your neighbor as yourself.
Mr. Shapiro's book highlights the changes beginning with higher education that effect the mindset of modern day American youth.
I highly recommend this book. I will be discussing it with my grand daughter, who will be entering college in about a year from now.
Some argue that Shapiro's work must be discounted due to his age (he had just finished college when he wrote this;) ironically many of the people making this claim are in his peer group. If we aren't to trust Shapiro's judgement due to his youth, why should we trust the judgment of an equally youthful liberal? There are some more legitimate criticisms of the book though, the first being lack of statistically valid arguments. In essence it is argued that Shapiro has no mathematical proof that because these were his experiences at college, that they apply when extrapolated to all other collegiate experiences. I would love to see statistical rigor in the book, but, unfortunately, I don't know how the study would be constructed to obtain this data. What the people who hide behind this argument ignore is that with the personal observations made, and the numerous other citations Shapiro has presented, his arguments are still very compelling, and raise legitimate questions about what is going on in American universities, particularly publicly-funded schools, which are heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
Some of the issues Shapiro confronts in the book are (hopefully) not representative of most schools' teachings, but the fact that they exist anywhere is reprehensible. The worst offense in the book, in my opinion, is the discussion of professors (at least seemingly) endorsing pedophilia beginning on p. 62. Several professors are cited, but typical is Professor Harris Mirkin of the University of Missouri, who calls pedophilia "intergenerational sex," and claims that "children are the last bastion of the old sexual morality...there needs to be a more real, open discussion of pedophilia and adult-child sex, not just emotional reactions that call all such relationships 'evil.'" While assuredly outside the mainstream, the fact that this man (and his sympathizers) is on a university payroll is a travesty.
Chapter 11, "Burning the Flag," is a must-read, and is probably the best chapter in the book. Disagreement with government policies is fundamental to democracy, but the traitorous venom spewed at many schools makes me question why they receive tax dollars. The chapter is replete with examples, but take as typical the quote on p. 101, from Professor Richard Berthold of the University of New Mexico, who, in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks said "Anyone who bombs the Pentagon has my vote," while University of Texas Professor Robert Johnson said that September 11th "was no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism...that the US government has committed during [his] lifetime....My anger on this day is directed...at those who have held power in the United States and have engineered attacks on civilians every bit as tragic." I am fairly certain that Johnson never served in the armed forces, but speaking as a former US Air Force officer and pilot, the public has no idea how hard the US armed forces plan to mitigate civilian causalities, nor how much additional risk we ourselves take toward that end.
The best illustration of the anti-US streak among "scholars" came on p. 102 from Professor Dana Cloud also of the University of Texas, who was quoted in the "Daily Texan" on July 11, 2001 as saying "It seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation that imposes its will, both economic and military around the world by force....I pledge allegiance to the people of Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan, and to their struggles to survive and resist." Of course the best known radical on campus, Noam Chomsky, who is by education a linguist, weighed in with "The United States claims that it has its reasons [for the War on Terror]...and the Nazis had reasons for gassing the Jews." (How exactly is a linguist qualified to comment on world affairs?) This is a strain that is oft repeated in academic and left-wing circles, that the US (under Bush, of course) is morally equivalent to Nazi Germany under Hitler, and that, evidently, the US deserved the September 11th attacks. Oh wait...did I say "evidently?" Scratch that: make it "explicitly," as Professor Walter Daum of City College of New York helpfully explains on p. 114: "The ultimate responsibility [for the attacks] lies with the rulers of this country, the capitalist ruling class of this country." At Columbia University Assistant Professor Nicholas De Genova told a crowd of students at a "teach-in" that "The only true heroes are those who find ways to help defeat the US military," and that he "personally would like to see a million Mogadishus (p. 130.)" Not only are some professors blaming the US, still others are openly requiring students to support their viewpoints. At Citrus College, for instance, Professor Rosalyn Kahn told her students to write anti-war letters to President Bush, specifically telling students that pro-war letters would not be accepted.
Shapiro goes on to cite examples of professors who gave students assignments telling them to think about assassinating President Bush (Professor Michael Ballou of Santa Rosa Junior College was foolish enough to commit the assignment to writing in an e-mail to his students, which included the verbiage "kill the president," p. 129.) The FBI and Secret Service investigated and Ballou sanctimoniously hid behind the right to free speech. The school not only refused to fire him, the college President, Janet McCulloch, defended him saying that Ballou "has the right to say what he wants in the classroom," while Ballou himself explained that "I'm not going to take any flak from the 60 percent of American people who don't vote anyway. For them the President and the Presidency are already dead." This is something Shapiro excels at: exposing unacceptable behavior and ensuring that the self-righteous and smug professors are exposed for their true beliefs.
While the book has some flaws, I have tried to cite representative cases of Shapiro's reporting, which collectively has enormous insight into the leftist groupthink that is passing for collegiate instruction in many classrooms throughout the country, particularly in the social "sciences." Shapiro details many more issues than I have raised here (all equally scandalous,) and I salute his fortitude at persevering as an openly conservative student at UCLA and in writing this book. It's a staple that when caught saying something outlandish liberals hide behind their right to free speech (like Michael Ballou,) while attempting to paint anyone who does not follow their doctrine as an uneducated, ignorant, bigot. It's a red herring, and I'm glad that Ben Shapiro called them on it.
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How the establishment is working to control and miss lead all off us.
By the way , I am 13 old .
Shapiro's just-released masterpiece "How To Destroy America" is the sequel which makes clear that America is at the crossroads between preserving the Republic and all it stands for or its demise.
The stakes are that great and that absolute.
Read both.