Anarchic violence against students administrators literally under siege from radicalized minority students demanding social justice payback payback, students wailing about the retreating into segregated spaces. Our former institutions of Higher Learning have degenerated into circuses of militant irrationality and radicalism. How did it come to this . To answer that question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book to left in University Volume eight in the latest edition to a series of collective desk with the conservative writings including the black book of the american left including essays from 1993 to 2010 and addresses what David Horowitz described as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time the campaign of the left to support the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into doctrinal Training Centers for social and political causes for this campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy and cultural marxism. If the chronicle said campaigner for next quarter century and gave of davids efforts to bring political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. You party now David Horowitz is the author of too many books and articles to name all of them essential reading for understanding the radical left and waging war against it but among the minor times bestsellers radical son unholy alliance and most recently big agenda president trumps plan to save america. If you have heard me introduce david before youve no doubt heard the call and the leftmost hated apostate because he knows them better than they know themselves and that makes him an existential threat to them and invaluable to us. Please welcome the author of the left and the university and the founder of the freedom center, David Horowitz. [applause] thank you markieff. Thank you everybody for coming. Last week i was at the university of houston in houston where do we before they had held a National Conference for students for justice in palestine. The university hosted students for justice in palestine is a creature of the terrorist Organization Hamas and its a hamas propaganda network. I brought along a little clip to show you so you can share with me. Mahmoud also herat was the founder. Theres no place we can choose among us and you have no future among the nations of this world and had to annihilation. To do destroy the jewish state and annihilate its [inaudible] [inaudible] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] that was seven minutes into my talk and died said at the outset of the talk when i was a radical at her glee and columbia in the 60s i always wanted to hear what the other side had to say because i felt that would make me a better radical. I would have an argument. Those days are gone. The greatest american tragedy of my lifetime is the destruction of our educational system by progressives and its conversion into an indoctrination and the Recruitment Center for this theological left. This book that ive written, the left in university is the fifth book that i have written about the university. The problem which has been 50 years in the making and it has a special interest because its really dispatches from the war front. What i wrote engaging in a battle to restore Academic Freedom to the university, to restore the modern Research University to basically our liberal arts colleges in the principles of it. I base my campaign which was for an academic goal of rights for students on the very famous Academic Freedom statement of the American Association of University Professors which these days is run by stalinists who are not happy with my proposals. I took their 19 teen statement which was really the statement that created the modern Research University basing it on scientific pencils and scientific procedures. That is you have a hypothesis and you try to test it by evidence and of course in a liberal arts field humanity, sociology Political Science there is no way its conducting the kind of experiments the scientists actually do so every and issue is controversial 1915 statement said its not the place of a faculty member in a democracy to indoctrinate his or her students but to present them with divergent opinions in a fairminded way because the task the teacher and the democracy is to teach students how to think not tell them what to think. What has actually happened over the last six years is that the political left and i suspect a lot of my generation of radicals stayed in the universities and pursued academics to avoid the draft, to avoid fighting communism which they sympathize with. The reverted them in the 19th century all of them were religious institutions. You are there to install the doctrines of the particular denomination. Because their training ministers and priests. Thats what the universities have become today. Except the religious doctrines they teach and instill the doctrines of narcissism. Identity politics which is culturalism which ill explain shortly. For those of you who are mystified that college students, its not believe me there a faculty cohort behind these these proud students and anti learning students. When i was a radical that i consider myself a marxist revolutionary at the time, i wanted to hear what they were saying. I wanted to answer them. I was in school to learn how to do that. Thats where i perceived it. If you want to understand why there is a concerted effort to shut down the everett other side, its because these are religious institutions and did not dealing with the divergence of opinion as they would in a democracy, theyre dealing with the religious heresy. What you do is you burn them at the stake if you have enough power to do that. Or, you just close them down as is happening to university of michigan, and other conservatives. Ill take it all personally. What happened is beginning in the 70s the left saw the students the first thing they did was begin a purge of conservatives from faculties by not hiring them. Today conservatives are as rare as unicorns. They then purged books that required reading list. The average student will go through four years of a college in our country to never encountered a conservative adult or read a book by conservative who has a endeavor hundred years. Then they purged conservative ideas from the curriculum. They did that by inventing studies, black studies, womens studies, these are all political fields, theyre about leftwing politics. You cannot be a conservative them via womens studies professor. Womens studies is not about the academic study of women, its about training marxist feminists. Training students in the marxist idea that the environment determines everything. That we are socially constructed. This is a socially influenced and socially constructed. The Neuroscience Department you learn that is hardwired into the biological system. So the fields are so constructed that cannot be part of it. That is some of the founders of womens studies who actually believe they should be about the study of women. Ive encouraged and treated by enemies by these political radicals. The next thing they did was prevent conservative discourse from one of the outside. Now we go to campus and get treated like this of course the newspaper there was part of the demonstration on anything that i said. So the university was deaf to my presence which is the agenda of the left. But until about 2001 i was reminded of one of the chapters of my book is called and chorale. So she is physically attacked when she was speaking. And if you think having to be thrown at you at highspeed is an intimidating, it is. In 2001 i conducted a campaign that i thought it was a hundred and 70 years after the fact from people who are slaveowners. I thought that the discretion to say so. When i was invited i asked the chancellor, i knew that to speak at berkeley which they can convey and asked them to introduce me is just to protect the students. They six guys in jackets in the bathroom and kicked open the stall doors. I remember saying out loud this is an absolute disgrace in america. When you have officials like that theres no way to stop it. You have to expel students who do student things like this. Plato and aristotle taught now the university i believe was a pretty good school it was all interested in discussing ideas with me about attacking political. But that obviously has changed. They started to get physically attacked so they had not enabled on a college campus. Did not have a bodyguard when i was at butler and i was attacked it was during pie in my face which is an physically damaging but there is a picture on the internet a me looking pathetic. I had been physically attacked were violence would hurt me. I could never finish a speech when i spoke to the university of houston there about ten cops in uniform. A nurse to undercover cops in the audience and they knew now that they would be arrested if they did anything. Theres not going to be an exchange of ideas. In only three times ever been invited by faculty. The fact that the matter i are decent people on faculties across the country. None of them have the courage to stand up. The solution to the berkeley problem or any of these problems was the faculty tip in together and invite conservatives datatype that i first free speech. There are no such people. Thats a huge problem. The damage to the whole university system. Its one Party Classrooms. Its a oneparty state. You get one point of view. But on i think one third of millennials think george bush killed more people than stalin. 25 of the students who actually know levin was thinking is a great guy. I could go on and on with these things. But this has affected our judiciary. You wonder why the media is such a disgraceful these days . Is it is because of the way people communicate. The university of texas when i went there the professor of communication was a bolshevik. An international organization, inside the lecture hall or leading chance like a mini seven top of my talk here. There is a nice chancellor who came on this was in the good old days and said you will be arrested if you continue with this administration. Usually they come in and say these administrators dont say a word to me, they dont say there is a space for people who are disturbed. As we show you a couple weeks ago i was in washington, d. C. I look called up the education and told them i was coming. Fifteen years ago is probably the leading conservative critic of what was going on and universities. The chronicle allowed me to write a piece for them called in defense of intellectual diversity. They invited me and i was treated and featured in the profile on the front page of the chronicle because i was such a prominent critic. I told them i had a new book which i would like them to review. I sent them a copy to look over. And the editors who are treated me well is somewhat failing 15 years ago the one that invited me did not show up for the meeting, but they had ten editors and reporters shooting you questions for an hour. Then they asked me if i would come to a room and videotape an interview for ten minutes. Theyre gonna put up it right away on the website. When i left i got an email that they were not to put it up. There is not a trace of my visit the chronicle of higher education. That is the intellectual journal, there is no dialogue. So what is the religion that they teach . Its very important. The religion as you know his identity politics which is really cultural marxism area and i will explain that in a moment. Marxism is a view of the world in which society is divided into classes. The manifesto and the history of all society is the history of class struggles. Thats what marxists believe. But we wouldnt have these two ideas here, the first is that peoples class is a determinant factor. When the bolsheviks came to power they set out to eliminate classes and by eliminating it was at the point of a gun which is what they did. So first you erase the individual the whole society is based on individual rights and accountability. But if you have a marxist view its about classes. This is classical marxism that i grew up with. The second ideas that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. Theres the ruling class and the working class. The third idea is there civil war between the classes. A conflict that can only be resolved violently. This had a seer certain coherence. The idea was private property that creates the classes is responsible for all social problems. So if you have a revolution, the revolution was to take away the ownership and means of production to the middle class and put everybody in one class. There is a coherence to that because after you eliminate the presser class where everybody is an equal because this is a delusional idea. It led to the deaths of 100 Million People in the 20th century. Very distracted. If you take away peoples identity as individuals and the american idea Martin Luther kings idea that you judge people by the content of their character. However cultural marxism is 100 times worse. Society is divided into races, ethnicities, genders. The way they judge who is depressed is who is marginal. If you dress yourself up and have a mustache and put rabbit ears on your head, of course were marginal. Look around you. You will be marginal. That doesnt mean we are oppressed. Jews are marginal, they been marginal throughout history. And persecuted for that matter. But this is a very pernicious idea that society is divided into an Oppressor Group based on race, based on gender or sexual orientation. In that ideology is one of four. Ive discussed this before but it hasnt been picked up by people but it needs to be picked up by conservatives, people of color, people of color is not a group. Its not an identity of interest. Do you think had a common interest, that pakistanis and indians have a common interest . There were with each other. Example i have given his mexico you have two main ethnic groups for the conquistadors and the defendants of the indians are oppressed but when they cross the border and the United States the people of color therefore oppressed. Therefore deserving special interest in special allowances, you dont look at what they do, if they break the law im not suggesting the left is good at converting everything you say. It is comfort power on these oppressed groups. If you look at the world, people of color, be headers in syria, isis members are people of color, these monsters in africa, dictators are people of color. Everybody in the world is people of color except the bad evil oppressive white people. The biggest. Problem we have is antiwhite racism. People you would think had brains talk about america as a white supremacist nation. His lunatic. Yes, there are some Ku Klux Klans around and some white supremacist, what are they . 500 out of a nation of 330 million . The ku klux klan once had 11 senators and 75 congressmen. The actual white supremacist were members of congress. Theres some black supremacist in congress, tell you that. Same thing with nazis and neonazis. Their hitler youth is what they are. Literally. But hearing an organization that wants to exterminate the jews in so many words which i read more statements and you need to know the extermination of jews is their agenda. I could go on and on about it but this is the greatest problem are country faces. Everybody is a progressive and seeing everything in racial gender terms. I lied about it. Who really care paid on the idea that women are somehow oppressed in this country to the extent there is a gender wage gap. Women actually 24 cents less on the dollar than men for the same work in the same experience in job. Thats a big lie. And hillary knows its a lie because she was around when a male dominated congress in 1963 pass the equal pay for equal work act making it illegal to pay women less than men. As i said many times, you can show in one sentence why it is a lie and if it were true employers will fire all their marion ploys, higher women increase their profits. It doesnt happen because its a lie. Yet, wheres the media, where the sensible people in our public life pointing this out . They dont exist. Thats because of our corrupted educational system. The moderate university. I got my model of what i wanted the university to look like. What a colombian the 50s alyssa marxists. I was never harassed by my professors the way conservative kids are harassed these days. Students in the class had one opinion they took the opposite to teach us how to think. This one of the great achievements of mankind real story, doesnt exist. Whats going on in schools like harvard and yale is disgraceful. Its all over youtube, you can see it. So is there a solution . Well, theres two ways of looking at the question, sure, my bill of rights was one attempt on a solution if they just observe universities. The principles they preach, everything would be fine, but they dont. There is not an administrator in this country who has reached out to ann coulter myself or any of the conservative speakers and attempt to reverse this quick. Heres my proposal. In doing the bill of rights i have looked at external forces, we passed a few resolutions supporting the idea. But no legislation and no wielding a political power. The left has convinced me that appeals to reason her for utile. So here is how i would fix it today. Thirtythree states the republicans control the state legislators. The Appropriations Committee in both houses a legislator, and every one of these states controls the lifeline for the president of these universities. Of course in Public Institutions 85 of her students go to public universities. All the chairman of the Appropriations Committee would have to do is call the president of the university and say, you are constantly coming to me to make possible this for your university or that. And of course to advance your careers because you are judged on what you can bring to the university. I have three things i want from you. If i dont get them, i will not answer your phone calls ever again. First, what you to provide me with the required reading list for the und