Aggressions are retreating into segregated safe spaces. To sum up our former institutions of Higher Learning have degenerated into circuses of militant irrationality and radicalism. How did it, to this . To answer that question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book the left and University Volume eight of and the latest addition to his series of collected conservative writings entitled the black book of the american left. This book contains 24 dozen essays written from 19932010 and it addresses what David Horowitz describes as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time. The Successful Campaign of the left to subvert the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into an doctrinal Training Centers for their social and political causes. His campaign has done more to steer america towards the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy of cultural marxism. This book chronicles that compete over most of the last course entry and his efforts to bring some political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. You already know David Horowitz is the author of two books and articles to name, all of them essential reading for anderson the radical left and for waging war against it. Among the our new times bestsellers radical son, unholy alliance, and most recently big agenda, president trumps plan to save america. If you hardly ever does david before you know debtor be called in the left most hated apostate because he knows that better than they know themselves and that makes him an existential threat to them, and invaluable to us. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the author of the left and university and the founder of the freedom center, David Horowitz. [applause] thank you, mark. Thank you, everybody, for coming. Last week i was at the university of houston in houston, where the week 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 a hamas propaganda network. I brought along a little clip to show you so you can share with me. The founder of hamas said this, there was no place for jews among us [inaudible] were headed to annihilation. [inaudible] was greeted by hamas david, we reject [shouting] [shouting] [chanting] off our campus. [chanting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [chanting] off our campus. [chanting] [shouting] that was seven minutes into my talk, and i have sit at the outset of the talk that when i was a radical at berkeley 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 the arguments. Those days are gone. The greatest american tragedy of my lifetime is the destruction of our educational system by progressives, in that its conversion into an indoctrination and Recruitment Center for the ideological left. This book that ive written, the left in the university is the sixth book ive written about the universities, and the problem which is been 50 years in the making, and it has a special interest because its really dispatches from a warfront. It recounts what i wrote engaging in a battle to restore Academic Freedoms to the university, to restore the modern Research University to basically our liberal arts colleges, the principles of it. I based my campaign which was for an academic bill 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 were not happy with my proposals. I took their 1915 statement which was really the statement that created a modern Research University, basing it on scientific principles and scientific procedures. That is, you have a hypothesis and you confront it with counter opinions and you try to test it by edit. Of course in a liberal arts field, the humanities, theology, all these fields, political science, theres no way of conducting the kind of experiments that scientists actually do fix every issue is controversial. The 1915 the 1915 statement sait the place of a faculty member in a democracy to indoctrinate his or her students, but to present them with divergent opinions and a fairminded way. Because the task of the teacher in a democracy is to teach students how to think, not tell them what to think. What actually happened over the last years is that the political left, and i suspect a lot of my generation of radicals state in universities and present academic careers to avoid the draft and to avoid fighting communism, which they sympathized with. And what theyve done is they reverted the universities, colleges, obviously not the physics departments and Geology Department but the citizen training aspects of the university, all the social studies fields and law and so forth. They have reported them to their 19th century origins. In the 19th century all of our colleges were doctrinal institutions. They were religious institutions. Harvard, yale, and what they were there for was to instill the doctrines of a particular domination because they were training denomination because they were training priests and so forth. Thats what our universities have become today, except that the religious doctrines that they teach and instill other doctrines of marxism, identity politics which is cultural marxism, which i have explained shortly. And for those of you who are mystified that College Students should want to come its not just believe it, theres a whole faculty cohort behind these procare students and these antidemocratic students and antiamerican students, as i say when i was a radical, and i consider myself a marxist revolutionary at the time, i wanted to hear what our opponents were saying. I wanted to be able to answer them. I was in school to learn how to do that. Thats the way how i perceived it. If you want to understand why theres this concerted effort to shut down the other side of the debate, its because these are religious institutions out thae religious colleges and are not dealing with a divergent opinion as in a democracy. They are dealing with a religious heresy. And what you do do hair takes is you burn them at the stake if you have enough power to do that, or you just close them down as happen, for example, to charles murray, university of michigan and other conservatives. This is nothing personal. I dont take this at all personally. So manhattan was, beginning in the 1970s the left saw the universities as instruments of their revolutionary designs, and so the first thing he did was to get purged of conservative from faculty by not hiring them basically. So that today on most college campuses, conservatives are as rare as unicorns. They purged conservative books from the required reading lists. An average student who goes to four years of the college in our country today never encountered, and count the conservative adult or read a book by conservative who hasnt been dead for 100 years. The next thing they did was to purge conservative ideas from the curriculum, and he did that by inventing what they called studies, american studies, black studies, womens studies. These are all political fields. They are not scholarly fields of they are about learning leftwing politics. You couldnt be a conservative and be a womens studies professor because womens studies is not about the academic study of women. Its about training marxist feminists. Its about training students, thoroughly discredited marxist idea that the involvement is everything. That we are socially constructed. Constructed. Thats how you get this idea that gender is socially, not just socially influenced by the socially constructed. Go to the moral Science Department or the biology department, you learn that its hardwired into the biological system. Well, it is obvious to any normal human being who havent had their brains screwed up by leftist ideology. So the fields now are so constructed that a conservative really can hardly be part of import about the park. There are no conservatives in womens studies departments. In fact, some of the founders of womens studies who actually they should be about the study of women, you know, ive been encouraged and treated as enemies by these political radicals on our faculties. The next thing that they did was to prevent conservative discourse coming in from the outside. Now, when you come to campus and you get treated like this, of course the newspaper there, the entire report was of the demonstration, not anything that i said. Just basically the university was deaf to my presence, which was, is the purpose, the agenda of the left. But until about 2001, i was reminded of this by one of the chapters of the book in the left in the university is called and culture at cornell. She was physically attacked when she was speaking. And if you think having an orange thrown at you at high speed is an intimidating, it is. I remember that in 2001 i conducted a campaign, i i thout the idea of reparations for slavery paid 137 years after the fact from people who were never slaveowners to people who were never slaves was a bad idea and actually racist and that the indiscretion to say so. When i was invited to speak by College Republicans at the university of california berkeley, i asked the chancellor, i wrote the chancellor and said, because i knew that netanyahu had been unable to speak of berkeley because of the pledge of violence which they couldnt contain. I asked him to introduce me or have someone from his office introduced me just to protect the students. And what he did was, he assigned 30 armed guards for my talk. When i had to go to the bathroom before spoke, ask guys in flak jackets proceeded me into the bathroom and kicked open the stall doors. I remember saying out loud, this is an absolute disgrace in america. But when you have University Officials like that, theres no way to stop it. You have to expel students who do things like the students did. Or like theyre doing now where they demonstrate inside classrooms. They dont want aristotle taught because he was white. No, that university, actually i visited read and i thought it was a pretty good school even though its a leftwing school, very traditional and the student for all interested in discussing ideas with me, not attacking me political but that obviously, obviously has changed. So in 2001 what happens is people started people started to get physically attacked. And i had a bodyguard for that berkeley event and i have not been able to go to a college campus, i i mean, ive been physically attacked before that. Im trying to think because im a little lax about these things. I visited butler. I did not have a bodyguard when i was at buffett and i was attacked through this, through a cream pie in my face which isnt physically damaging to me but there is a picture of me looking pretty pathetically. I was wearing a suit. But ive been physically attacked where violence that would hurt me was intended. And i could never finish a speech if it wasnt massive campus security. The campuses know they have security problem. So when i spoke at the university of houston they were about ten cops in uniform and there were two undercover cops in the audience. Thats why they marched out because they knew now that they would be arrested if they did anything. But when you go to a campus, thats the atmosphere. Its not an intellectual discourse anymore. Theres not going to be an exchange of ideas. And let me say, ive been on 400 college campuses, and only three times have been invited by faculty. Once by the dean who when i got there he hid from the because he was under assault from his own faculty. And the fact of the matter is that there is no, i mean, im sure there are decent people on faculties across this country, but none of them has the courage to stand up for conservatives and invite them. The solution to the berkeley problem or any of these problems is for the faculty to band together and invite conservatives and lecture theire students who come in students on campus to fight for the right for free speech. There are no such people. That is a huge problem and that is an indictment of the whole university system, the college system. And that is part of the complete conversion of the university into a oneparty system and a oneparty state. And one of the books i wrote is called oneParty Classroom, because thats what it is. Its a oneparty state. You get one point of view. Now, the consequences of this is most education or lack of education of College Graduates and now. I had the figures here of the percentage, i think onethird of millennials think that george bush killed more people than joseph stalin. 25 of the students who actually know who lyndon was, and thats a minority, think he was a great guy. Now, i could go on and on with these things, but, of course, this has affected our judiciary. You wonder why the media is such a disgrace these days. Its because of the way people are educated. The Communications Departments are training grounds and marxism. Ive been to the university, you know, university of texas when i went there in austin, a professor of communications who is a bolshevik, shes a member of the interNational Socialist, a bolshevik organization which is going, its call for dictatorship in america, inside the lecture hall where i was supposed to speak was leading chance exact like the one you saw at the top of my talk. And i was only able to continue because there was a vice chancellor who came. This is in the good old days, and said you will be arrested if you continue this demonstration. It took for a long time to stop. Usually they come in and they say, these administrators, they dont say a word to me but they will say theres a safe room from people who are disturbed, distressed by what David Horowitz has to say. And to show you how far gone its gotten, a couple of weeks ago i was in washington, d. C. , and i called up the chronicle of higher education, told them i was coming. 15 years ago, since i was probably the leading conservative critic of what was going on in the universities, the chronicle actually allowed me to write a piece for then called in defense of intellectual diversity, which is in this volume, the left in the university. So they invited me when they heard all, and i was treated, i was featured in my profile on the front page of the chronicle also because i was such a prominent critic. So they invited me, and i told him that had a new book, which i would like them to review, but i sent them a a copy so they coud look it over. And they arranged, the editor, scott, who treated me well, fairly, i dont know if it was well, i dont remember exactly but somewhat fairly, 15 years ago he was the one who invited me. He didnt show up for the meeting but they had ten editors and reporters, you know, shoot me questions for an hour. And then they asked me if i would come to a room and videotape an interview for ten minutes that theyre going to put up right away on their website. When i left i got an email that they would not put it up, no explanation, and there isnt a trace of my visit in the chronicle of higher education. That is the intellectual journal, well, you can see there is no dialogue. No dialogue left. So what is the religion that they teach . Very important. The religion is, as you all already know, is identity politics, which is really cultural marxism which ill explain in a moment. Now marxism is a view of the world in which society is divided into warring classes. Remember the communist manifesto, the history of all the history of class struggles which is bunk but thats what marxists believe. Well, so what you have, theres two ideas here, there are actually three. The first is that peoples class is a determinate factor. When the bolsheviks came to power, of course they set out to eliminate classes like the gulags and by eliminate at the point of a gun, which is what they did, so first of all you erase the individual, whole society is built on the idea of individual rights and individual accountability but if you are a marxist view, its about classes. This is classical marxism, the marxism i grew up with. The second idea is that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. So theres the ruling class, and then there was the working class. And the third idea is that theres a civil war between these classes and its a conflict that can only be resolved violently. Now, if you think about it, this had a a certain coherence, this idea, and the idea was of course that private property which treats the classes is responsible for all of the social problems, wars, povert, so forth. So it you have a revolution, a revolution was to take away the ownership of the needs of the production from the ruling class and put everybody in one class. Theres a certain coherence to the idea because you wind up after you have eliminated the bad press a class, where everybody is an equal because nobody is an owner of property. This is a delusional idea and it led to the deaths of 100 Million People in the 20th century. Very destructive. If you take away peoples identity as individuals, individual merit, the american idea so much more the kings idea that you judge people by the content of their character. However, cultural marxism, identity politics is 100 times worse. Because it sees society as divided into racists, ethnicities, and genders and as, the way they judge who was oppressed is who is marginal. So i dont know, it you dress yourself up in address and have a mustache and put rabbit ears on your head, of course you are marginal. Just look around you, you are going to be marginal. That doesnt mean we all oppressed. Its just a fact. Jews are marginal. Weve 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 based on sexual orientation, and an Oppressor Group and an oppressed group, and then of course the ideology is one of war. Theres a phrase for it.