Horrible Horowitz
When most people think of a university, they think of degrees and professors, of term papers, late nights at coffee shops, or even sports teams. When David Horowitz thinks of a university, he thinks of deception, trickery, activism, and indoctrination. For the last few years, he has been making it his duty to turn a spotlight to what he feels is a significant threat facing modern academia – the supposed transformation of higher education into a platform for the mindless indoctrination of America’s youth.
Mr. Horowitz makes two main claims throughout the bulk of his rhetoric. Firstly, he believes that many of university-level academic disciplines have, over time, been subverted and fundamentally transformed into platforms for ideological indoctrination. Then, to support this conspiracy of dangerous leftist educators, he makes the claim that there is an institutional policy of excluding conservative viewpoints completely by refusing to hire conservative professors. In his article entitled General Introduction to the "Indoctrination Studies" Section he even goes so far to claim that “[Liberals have] put in place the largest and most effective blacklist in the history of the country.”
These are provocative claims indeed, and in many ways it’s a shame that, while he is perpetually invoking scientific inquiry, pluralistic education, and the disinterested search of truth, the man evidently knows little about any of those principles.
