Of our leftwing indoctrination of students and arctic violence against conserved speakers and students, administrators literally under siege from radicalized minority students demanding payback. Students with you micro aggressions and retreating into segregated safe spaces. To some of our former institutions of Higher Learning which have generate into services militant irrationality and radicalism. How did it come to this . To answer the question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book the left and University Volume eight of, and the latest addition to a series of collected conservative writings entitled the black book of the american left the collected conservative writings of David Horowitz. This book contains nearly four dozen essays written for 1993 the 2010. It addresses what David Horowitz describes 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. This campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left goal of the literal translation of this country than any other strategy of cultural marxism. This book chronicles the campaign 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 Horwitz is author too many books and articles to name, all of them essential reading for understanding the radical left and for waging war against it. Among them are New York Times bestsellers radical son, unholy alliance, and most recently big agenda, president trumps plan to save america. If youve heard me introducing before you know doctor mccall in the left most hated apostate because he knows them 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 in the university and the founder of the horowitz freedom center, David Horowitz. [applause] thank you, mark. Thank you, everybody for coming. Last week i was at 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, a creature of the terrorist Organization Hamas and is a hamas propaganda network. And i brought along a little clip to show you so you can share with me. The founder of hamas said this, there is no place for jews among us and we have no future month the nations of the world. Were headed to annihilation. To destroy the jewish state and to annihilate jews. The students [inaudible] was greeted by hamas. [shouting] seven minutes. [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] that was seven minutes into my talk, and id sit at the outset of the top that what i was a radical at berkeley and columbia, the 60s, i always wanted to hear what the other side had to say because i felt i 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, and that its conversion into an indoctrination and Recruitment Center for the ideological left. This book that ive written the left in the universities is the sixth book that ive written about the universities, and this problem which has been 50 years in the making, and it has a special interest because its, it really dispatches i warfront. It recounts its, what i wrote engaging in a battle to restore Academic Freedom to the university, to restore the modern Research University to our, basically our liberal arts colleges, the principles of it. I based my campaign which was for an academic 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 1915 statement, which was really the statement that created the 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 edits. Whats actually happened over the last 60 years is that the political left and i suspect a lot of my generation of radicals stayed in the universities and pursued academic careers to avoid the draft and to avoid fighting communism which they sympathized with. And what theyve done is they reverted the universities, the colleges obviously, not the physics departments and geology departments, but the citizen training aspects of the united states, all the social studies fields and the law and so forth. Theyve reverted 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 the particular denomination. Because they were training ministers and priests and so forth. And thats what our universities have become today except that the religious doctrines that they teach and instill are the doctrines of marxism, identity politics which is cultural marxism which ill explain shortly. And for those of you that are mystified that College Students should want to its not just, believe me, theres a whole faculty cohort behind these proterrorist students and antidemocratic and antilearning students. As i said when i was a radical and i considered myself a marxist revolutionary at the time i wanted to hear what our opponents were saying. I wanted to be able to answer them. And i was in school to learn how to do that. Thats the way 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 religious institutions now are liberal arts colleges. And were not dealing with a divergent opinion as one would in a democracy. Theyre dealing with a religious heresy. And what you do to heretics is you burn them at the stake if you have enough power to do that, or you just close them down as happened, for example, to Charles Murray and the university of michigan and other conservatives. I mean, this is nothing personal. I dont take this at all personally. So what happened was with beginning in the 1970s the left saw the universities as instruments of their revolutionary designs. And so the first thing they did was begin a purge of conservatives there faculties by not hiring them, basically. So that today on most College Campuses conservatives are as rare as unicorns. They then purged conservative books from their required reading lists. A normal, an average student can go through four years of a college in our country today, never encounter a conservative adult or read a book by a conservative who hasnt been dead for a hundred years. The next thing they did was to purge conservative ideas from the curriculum. And they did that by inventing what they called studies, american studies, black studies, womens studies. These are all political fields. Theyre not scholarly fields, but theyre 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 in the, you know, thoroughly discredited marxist idea that the environment determines everything. That we are socially constructed. And thats how you get this idea that gender is socially not just socially influenced, but socially constructed. If you go into the Neuroscience Department or into the biology department, you learn that its hard wired into the biological systems which is obvious to any normal human being who hasnt had their brain screwed up by leftist ideology. So the fields now are so constructed that a conservative really can hardly be part of them or could not be part there are no conservatives in womens studies departments. In fact, some of the founders of womens studies who actually believe they should be about the study of women have been purged 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 a campus and you get treated like this, of course, the newspaper were there, their entire report was on the demonstration of anything that i said. So, you know, just basically the university was deaf to my presence which was the, is the purpose, the agenda of the left. But until about 2001, i was reminded of this by one of the chapters in my book, the left and the university, is called ann coulter at cornell. And its when ann was pelted with oranges, physically attacked when she was speaking. And if you think having an orange thrown at you at high speed isnt intimidating, it is the. I remembered that in 2001 i had conducted a campaign. I thought the idea of reparations for slavery paid 137 years after the fact from people who were never slave owners to people who were never slaves was a bad idea and actually racist and that the in and had the indiscretion to say so. When i was invited to speak by College Republicans at the university of californiaberkeley, i asked the chancellor, i wrote the chancellor and said because i knew that netanyahu had been unable to speak in berkeley because of the threats of violation which they couldnt contain. So i asked him to introduce me or have somebody from his office introduce 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 i spoke, six guys in flak jackets preceded me into the bathroom and kicked open the stall doors. And i remember saying out loud, this is an absolute disgrace this america. But when you have University Officials like that, theres no way to stop it. You have to expel students who do things like these students did. Or like theyre doing now at reid college where theyre demonstrating inside classrooms. They dont want aristotle taught because he was white. No. That university actually, i visited reid, and i thought it was a pretty good school, you know . Its a leftwing school, its very traditional, and the students were all interested in discussing ideas with me, not attacking me political. But that, obviously, obviously has changed. So in 2001 what happened is 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 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 butler, and i was attacked, they threw this chocolate cream pie in my face which isnt physically damaging, but theres a picture of me on the internet looking pretty pathetic. I was wearing a suit, and it was just boo by stuff. But ive been physically attacked where violence that would have hurt me was intended. And i could never finish a speech if there wasnt massive campus security. The campuses know they have a security problem. So when i spoke at the university of houstonen, there were about houston, there were about ten cops in uniform, and there were two undercover cops in the audience. And 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 and 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 i been invited by faculty. Once by a dean who i got there, he hid from me because he was under assault from his own faculty. And the fact of the matter is that there is, 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 for any of these problems is for the faculty to band together and invite a conservative and lecture the students on campus to fight for the rights of free speech. There are no such people. That is a huge problem, and that is an indictment of the whole university system, 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 with jacob blackson is called onepart classroom because thats what it is, its a oneparty state. You get one point of view. Now, one of the consequences of this is the lack of education of College Graduates now. I had the figures here. The percentage of oh, i think onethird of millennials think that george bush killed more people than josef stalin. [laughter] 25 of the students who actually know who lenin was, and thats a minority, think he was a great guy. You know, 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 that people are educated. The Communications Departments are training grounds in 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 Socialists which is a bolshevik organization which is calling, has called for a dictatorship of the proletariat in america. Inside the lecture hall where i was supposed the speak was leading chants exactly like the one you saw at the top of my talk here. And i was only able to continue because there was a vice chancellor who came. This was in the good old days. And said, you know, youll be arrested if you continue this demonstration in here. And it took her a long time to stop. Usually they come in and they say, these administrators, they dont say a word to me, but theyll say theres a safe room for people who are disturbed [laughter] 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 [inaudible] of higher education, told them i was coming. Now, 15 years ago since i was a leading, i was probably the leading conservative critic of what was going on in the universities, they the chronicle actually allowed me to write a piece more them called in defense of intellectual diversity, can which is in this volume, the left and the university. So they invited me when they heard oh, and i was treated to a, i was featured, my profile on the front page of the chronicle also because i was such a prominent critic. So they invited me, and i told them that i had a new book which i would like them to review but, you know, i sent them a copy so they could look it over. And they arranged the editor, Scott Smallwood who had treated me well, fairly i dont know be it was well, i dont remember exactly [laughter] but somewhat fairly, 15 years ago, hes 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, you know, to a room and videotape an interview for ten minutes that they were going to put up right away on their web site. When i left, i got an email that theyre not going to put it up, no explanation. And there isnt a trace of my visit in the chronicle of higher education. And that is, you know, the intellectual journal. Well, you can see there is no dialogue. No dialogue left. So what is the religion that they teach . Its very or important. The religion, as you all already know, is identity politics which is really cultural marxism which ill explain in a moment. Marxism is a view of the world in which society is divided into warring classes. Remember the communist manifesto, the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of chat struggles class struggles. Which is bunk, but thats what marxists believe. Well, so what you have is two ideas here. There are actually three. The first is that peoples class is the determinant factor. And when the bolsheviks came into power, of course, they set out to eliminate classes. And by eliminate, it was at the point of a gun which is what they did. So, first of all, you erase the individual. Our whole society is built on the idea of individual rights and individual accountability. But if you have a marxist view, its about classes. This is classical marxism. Its marxism i grew up with. The second idea is that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. So theres the ruling class and end 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 certain coherence, this idea. And the idea was, of course, that private property which creates the classes is responsible for all of the social problems; wars, poverty, so forth. So if you have a revolution, the revolution was to take away the ownership of production from the ruling class and put everybody in one class. Well, theres a certain coherence to that idea because you wind up after youve eliminated the bad oppressor 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 is so much Martin Luther kings idea that we judge people by the content of their character. However, cultural marxism, identity politics is a hundred times worse, because it sees society as divided into races, ethnicities, genders, and it has this ridiculous the way they judge whos oppressed is whos marginal. So, i dont know, if y