Indoctrinate U, and today's items
Indoctrinate U"
I wasn't able to attend the screening, but Mitchell Langbert did: A Classic in the Making
Speaking of academia, Cinnamon posts on Brown University Workshop Speaks to Fear and Loathing in Middle East Studies After 9-11On April 23 and 24 the Tribeca film festival in lower Manhattan, which is continuing through May 6, screened Indoctrinate U, Evan Maloney's documentary about political correctness in American universities. The film depicts universities run amuck. Fascistic, intolerant leftists attack Asian Republicans, white males, libertarian females, conservative white females, conservative Sikh males (not to mention libertarian black writers and Asian libertarian conservative males). The film is funny, lively and ultimately frightening. Maloney's delivery is witty and sharp. The film is well-edited. One is riveted to the screen. The interviewees, who include my colleagueKC Johnson and FIRE's Glen Lukianoff, are articulate and brilliant. The film will not surprise the few conservatives in academe who work among the politically correct majority. Nor will it surprise conservative students who have been subjected to the harassment the film depicts and seen their careers ruined by liberal witchhunters, speech code advocates and a wide range of left-wing jackboots. But the public at large, the broader community, those who believe that students go to Yale, Bucknell, Cal Poly Tech, and their equivalents to be educated will be stunned.
The only problem is workshop participants are almost uniformly composed of academics who are hostile to the U.S.-led war on terrorism, its ally, Israel, and any efforts via higher education to combat radical Islam on college campuses.
Thanks to Larwyn for today's links
Time for Dictators But No Time for American Generals
Gaius fisks Naomi
Patrick sent a nice YouTube of Giuliani in New Hampshire this week,
Patrick also sent McCain surges among New Hampshire conservatives
Jeremayakovka sends this article, 'Making War to Keep Peace' is a fine tribute to Jeane Kirkpatrick
Update: Don't miss Cassandra's NYTimesWatch: The Lynching Of Paul Wolfowitz
Labels: books, Democrats, education, Jeane Kirkpatrick, movies, Rudolph Giuliani
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