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The Heterodoxy Handbook: How to Survive the PC Campus

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This collection of materials (mostly essays, but also some parodies and, delightfully, readers' letters) from Heterodoxy is horrifying and invigorating. "These people are crazy," I kept telling myself as I read the book. "They need to be institutionalized."

But they're not crazy. They're mobilized, they're motivated, and they're out to get you. Okay, maybe not YOU, specifically...not yet. The essays in this collection reveal leftist individuals and organizations at work, putting their agenda -- the consolidation of their own power by the destruction of existing American institutions -- into action.

The title is mystifying. Many of the essays contained in this volume relate to American universities (one of the first redoubts to be siezed by the Raving Left). Others, though, deal with issues and incidents as diverse as fascist feminism's assault on the US military and a social workers' crusade against the "patriarchal" family.

Still, give it to your college-bound friend or relative. Think of it as inoculation.

Horowitz takes the current PC climate on college campuses to task. Read this book and learn about the mentality that shaped the Clinton administration, and how the same mentality threatens free speech in the future. This book should be required reading for every college freshman,oops, freshperson.

A perfect companion to Orwell's "1984". Horowitz does an admirable job of detailing the ever present dangers from modern day "thought police" at our institutions of higher learning. Recommended reading for all incoming freshmen.

Former radicals Horowitz and Collier expose the Left again. This collection of vignettes from campuses (and other areas) across the nation are quite humorous -- and at the same time scary. McCarthyism alive and well? Sure is -- at your local university.

Have kids about to enter college? Read this first, and then examine what classes your child takes along with his/her reading materials and syllabi.

Oh, and make sure to read the letters section at the end of the book, especially those from university professors. These guys and gals are supposed to be the epitomy of "tolerant?"

I had never heard of the magazine, Heterodoxy, when it was still operational, but now, in retrospect, I wish I would have subscribed to it. This is a collection of their best of and the essays are, for the most part, very cranial and introspective. I enjoyed almost all of them. The subsection, The Academic Zoo, excoriates radical feminism and the politicization of the fields of literary criticism and archaeology. We also see what political correctness has done to the navy, the methodist church, and the big gray enchilada, The New York Times. The writing is highly spirited and entertaining in my opinion. You'll enjoy it.

American Universities, Islands of Oppression in a Sea of Freedom.

And daily the size of that sea is shrinking. We scratch our heads and wonder what is eating away at the America we once knew. This is a good place to start answering that question.

When I saw that "PC" was in the title, I knew it would be worth a good chuckle. Political Correctness is a term of derision for people who are concerned about racism and sexism and all of that stuff that Paul Harvey, Rush Limbaugh and other creations of the public relations industry so dutifully deride. Horowitz and his ilk are diverting are attention from the real problem of "corporate correctness." Universities are falling under the control of private power at an alarming rate. Their research is being driven by corporate interests, not the interests of human beings or the communities they're supposed to be serving. The campus is a boot camp for corporate soldiers, God forbid they stumble upon a lecture, or a play, or an art exhibit that doesn't fit in the cage that Horowitz's mind is in. I'm sure it pays well to rant about "political correctness," but it doesn't do much to solve the problems of violence against women, immigrants, and a minority population that faces a 20% incarceration rate.