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 the next thing they did was to prevent conservative discourse from the outside. When you come to a campus and get treated like this, the newspaper there, the entire report was of the demonstration, and the university was dead. To my presence. Which is the purpose of the agenda of the left. Until 2001 i was reminded by one of these chapters, the left of the university. And golder at cornell. Pelted with oranges, physically attacked. If you have an orange thrown at you, it is intimidating. In 2001 i conducted a campaign, the idea of reparations for slavery 137 years after the fact from people, to people who were never slaves, was a bad idea and actually racist and the indiscretion to say so. When i was invited to speak at the university of california berkeley, i asked the chancellor, i wrote the chancellor and said i knew Benjamin Netanyahu because of threats of violence, asked him to introduce me, just to protect students, and assigned 30 armed guards, from my talk, when i asked to go to the bathroom before i spoke six guys in jackets preceded me into the bathroom and kicked open the stall doors and i remember saying out loud this is an absolute disgrace in america. When you have University Officials like that there is no way to stop it. You have to expel students who do things like these students did or like they are doing now and read college, demonstrating inside classrooms, they dont want aristotle talk because he was white, the university, i visited and thought it was a pretty good school even though it is a leftwing school, very traditional and students were all interested in discussing ideas without attacking me politically but that obviously has changed. So in 2001 what happened as people started to get physically attacked. I had a bodyguard for that berkeley event and i had not been able to go to a college campus. I had been physically attacked before that. Im trying to think. Im a little lax about these things. I visited butler, i did not have a bodyguard at butler and i was attacked through this chocolate cream pie in my face. Not physically damaging but theres a picture of me on the internet looking pretty pathetic, i was wearing a suit full of stuff. I had been physically attacked where violence was intended and i could never finish speech, the massive campus security, campuses know they have a security problem so when i spoke at the university of houston there were ten cops in uniform, two undercover cops in the audience, that is why they marched out because they knew they would be arrested if they did anything but when you go to a campus, and that is the atmosphere it is not an intellectual discourse anymore, or exchange of ideas. On 400 college campuses, only 3 times have i been invited by faculty, once by a dean who hid from me because he was under assault from his own faculty and the fact of the matter is there is no im sure there are decent people on faculties across this country but none 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 lectures students on campus to fight for the right for free speech. There are no such people. That is a huge problem and an indictment of the whole university system, the College System and that is part of the complete conversion of the university into a one party system and a 1party state and one of the books i wrote is called 1party classroom because that is what it is. 1party state, you get one point of view. One of the consequences of this is the miseducation or lack of education of college graduates. I have the figures here of the percentage, one third of millennials think that george bush killed more people than joseph stalin. 25 of students who actually know who lenin was, a minority think he was a great guy. I could go on and on with these is but of course this has affected our judiciary, you wonder why the media is such a disgrace these days, it is because of the way people are educated. The Communications Department our Training Ground in marxism. I have been to the university of texas, i went there in boston, a professor of communication, a bolshevik, a member of the interNational Socialists, a bolshevik organization which called for a dictatorship of the proletariat in america. Inside the lecture hall where i was supposed to speak, like the one you saw at the top of my talk here, i was only able to continue because there was a vice chancellor who came, this was in the good old days, and said you will be arrested if you continue this demonstration. It took a long time is usually they come in and say these administrators dont say a word to me but they will say there is a safe room for people who are disturbed, distressed by what David Horowitz has to say and to show you how far gone it has gotten a couple weeks ago i was in washington dc and i called up the chronicle of Higher Education and 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 allowed me to write a piece for them called in defense of intellectual diversity which is in this volume the left in the university. So they invited me when i heard i was treated i was featured on the front page of the chronicle also, such a prominent critic so they invited me and i told them that i had a new book which i would like him to review. Sent them a copy so they could look it over and they arranged, the editor who had treated me well, fairly, i dont know if it was well exactly but fairly, somewhat fairly 15 years ago, the one who invited me, he didnt show up for the meeting but they had ten editors and reporters shoot me questions for an hour and they asked me if i would come to videotape an interview on their website. When i left i got an email, they are not going to put it up, no explanation and there was not a trace of my visit. That is the intellectual journal. You can see there is no dialogue, no dialogue. What is the religion that they teach. Very important. The religion is as you all already know identity politics which is really cultural marxism which i will explain in a moment, marxism is a view of the world in which society is divided into warring classes, the communist manifesto, the history is the history of class struggles which is bunk but that is what marxists believe. What you have is two ideas here, actually 3. The first is peoples class is the determining factor, when the bolsheviks came to power they set out to eliminate classes and by eliminate, it was at that point of a gun which is what they did so you were he race the individual, a whole societies built on the idea of individual rights and accountability but if you have a marxists view it is about classes, classical marxism, the marxism i grew up with. The second idea is society is divided into oppressors and oppressed so there is the ruling class and the working class and the third idea is that there is a civil war between these classes and the conflict that can only be resolved violently. If you think about it, there is a certain coherence to this idea, the idea was of course private property which creates the classes is responsible for all social problems, wars, poverty and so forth. So if you have a revolution, the revolution was to take away the ownership and means of production from the ruling class and put everybody in one class, there is a certain coherence to that idea because you wind up after you have eliminated the 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, Martin Luther kings idea of judge people by the content of their character. However, cultural marxism, identity politics is 100 times worse because it sees society as divided into races, ethnicitys, genders, this ridiculous, the way they judge who is oppressed, who is marginal. I dont know, if you dressed yourself a bit 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 you are oppressed, jews are marginal. We have 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 are based on Sexual Orientation, and Oppressor Group and an oppressed group and of course ideology is one of war. Theres a phrase for it i discussed before but hasnt been picked up by people but needs to be picked up by conservatives. People of color. People of color is not a group. It is not a group. There is not an identity of interests. A common interest, you think pakistanis and indians have a common interest . They are at war with each other. The example i have forgiven is mexico where you have two main ethnic groups, the descendents of the conquistadors who slaughtered the indigenous indians, oppressors and the sentence of the indigenous indians but when they cross the border into the United States they are both people of color, therefore oppressed, therefore marginal, deserving specialinterest, special allowances, dont look at what they do, they break the law, if they break the law suggesting all mexicans, so good at converting whatever you say into what you didnt say, it is to convert power on the socalled oppressed group and Oppressor Groups, look at the world, the maharajahs in india, people of color, behaviors in syria, isis members, they are people of color, mugar b and these monsters in africa, dictators, our people of color. Everybody in the world is people of color except the bad, evil oppressors, white people, the biggest social problem we have in america is rampant and tie white racism, people talk, democrats, people you would think had brains talk about america as a white supremacist nation. It is the arctic, there are some kkk, some White Supremacists but in charlottesville, a nation of 330 million, the ku klux klan once had what do they have, 11 senators, 75 congressman, the White Supremacists, actual White Supremacists, a member of congress. There are some black supremacists in congress, i will tell you that White Supremacists, same thing with nazis and neonazis. Hitler youth is what they are, literally, an organization that wants to exterminate the jews and says so in so many words which i have written more statements, you have to read some to know the extermination of jews is their agenda. I could go on and on about this but this is the greatest problem our country faces. Why are we so divided . Everybody on the left, everybody who is a progressive