The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America [Hardcover]

David Horowitz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2006

Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students. The Professors is a wake-up call to all those who assume that a college education is sans hatred of America and the American military and support for America's terrorist enemies.

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Horowitz, author of Unholy Alliance and founder of FrontPageMag.com, profiles 101 professors whose politics run left of center (in many cases, very, very left of center), and though his list is impressive in size and the amount of research that went into it, the most egregious crimes perpetrated by the majority of these academics is that their politics don't mesh with Horowitz's. Which isn't to say Horowitz hasn't turned up a few surprises: a Northwestern University law professor has a sordid history involving the Weather Underground, and a Rutgers University professor's early poems included lines like, "Rape the white girls" and "I got the extermination blues, jewboys." However, his intention to expose the majority of these professors as "dangerous" and undeserving of their coveted positions seems petty in some cases, as when he smugly mocks the proliferation of departments dedicated to peace studies or considers "anti-war activist" as a character flaw. The only noteworthy point that emerges from Horowitz's melodramatic finger pointing is his questioning of the tenure system, which he believes "serves to protect mediocrity and encourage incompetence." More distressing to Horowitz, it would appear, is that tenure allows professors who disagree with his personal political opinions to continue teaching.
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Coming to a Campus Near You: Terrorists, racists, and communists— you know them as The Professors.

We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you’d be wrong. Today’s radical academics aren’t the exception—they’re legion. And far from being harmless, they spew violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians—all the while collecting tax dollars and tuition fees to indoctrinate our children. Remember Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who compared the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to Nazis who deserved what they got? You thought he was bad? In this shocking new book, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz has news for you: American universities are full of radical academics like Ward Churchill—and worse.

Horowitz exposes 101 academics—representative of thousands of radicals who teach our young people—who also happen to be alleged ex-terrorists, racists, murderers, sexual deviants, anti-Semites, and al-Qaeda supporters. Horowitz blows the cover on academics who: — Say they want to kill white people. — Promote the views of the Iranian mullahs. — Support Osama bin Laden. — Lament the demise of the Soviet Union. — Defend pedophilia. — Advocate the killing of ordinary Americans.

David Horowitz’s riveting exposé is essential reading for parents, students, college alums, taxpayers, and patriotic Americans who don’t think college students should be indoctrinated by sympathizers of Joseph Stalin and Osama bin Laden.

The Professors is truly frightening—and an intellectual call to arms from a courageous author who knows the radicals all too well.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 450 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; First edition. edition (February 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895260034
• ISBN-13: 978-0895260031
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (210 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #858,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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102 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book, May 4, 2006

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Kevman (White Plains, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Hardcover)

It is obvious that many people do not like to have any challenge to the extremism existing in some colleges. Thats why there so many one star reviews of this book by people who obviously have not read it. While I don't always agree with the author's point of view, this is an intersting book and points out what one may be exposed to at colleges. Many professors seek indoctrination not education and free and open discussions of issues often are not allowed (if you oppose any position of some professors, you are considered a "hate monger"). I had a few crazed professors in the 1970s, but nothing as terrible as Ward Churchill or some of the others exposed in this book. I enjoyed the book and thought it was very readable. I do not think these 101 professors are representative of all college professors, most of whom are very good and seek to provide an education. This book does provide a fair warning for what is out there and takes the lid off of some often closely held secrets.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mildly Interesting, November 27, 2008

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This review is from: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Paperback)

Former liberal David Horowitz takes aim at the Left again in The Professors. Not surprisingly, he will delight conservatives while failing to gain any converts among liberals. For those of us in the middle, The Professors is a mixture of positives and negatives.

Horowitz manages, at times, to entertain. The introduction to The Professors has an interesting recap of the Ward Churchill affair at the University of Colorado. Without a doubt, some of the professors Horowitz profiles are true cranks. Horowitz recounts the careers of some interesting radicals; for instance, you will read in The Professors that people at three separate institutions thought that it was a good idea to hire former Weather Underground terrorists. Another interesting point (at least to an academic) was how little actual scholarship some of these professors had to do to get tenure at some very prestigious schools.

In spite of the high points, the 101 profiles become boring very quickly. It amazes me that Horowitz can write a boring book about controversial political issues; but the Professors was just not that much fun to read. Many of the profiles sound redundant. For instance, Horowitz heavily focuses on academics who do not support Israel; I would estimate that about 40 of the 101 "most dangerous" professors have made statements about Israel that Horowitz dislikes. These profiles tend to all sound alike after you have read the first 8 to 10.

In my opinion, The Professors is worth skimming, but I would not invest the time to read it "cover to cover." It would be a good book to borrow from your local library.

54 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perpetual Teach-In for Perpetual Indoctrination., February 14, 2006

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This review is from: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Hardcover)

David Horowitz's newest book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Horowitz edited and rewrote many of these entries, some of which originally appeared on a website devoted to uncloaking the identities and activities of the political left. The Professors is a compendium rather than a woven narrative, but its pages are always informative and occasionally quite stunning.

In these short, appalling mini-biographies we are made privy to the belief systems of those most responsible for the decline of the American university. Many of these academics were veterans of the counter-cultural experiment that was the 1960s, and they began their long march through the institutions after reaching adulthood. By blocking the hiring of their ideological opposition, they have created an environment wherein long disproven theories like Marxism and post-modernism are able to still flourish and emit their poison into the greater culture.

Their devotion to power and control may be totalitarian but it certainly has been effective. By denying that there is such a thing as "objectivity" they are able to repudiate the need to search for truth and turn their sections into clubs for aspiring radicals. They then excuse their actions by declaring their "engagement" and that teaching of all forms is "a political act." Veritas is replaced with opinion while students receive credit for attending rallies and writing papers about why George W. Bush is a war criminal.

The worst abuses occur in the liberal arts departments which are held prisoner to the race, gender, and class religion. Nowhere is the anti-intellectualism of these academics more prominently on display than in their racism. They claim to be "liberals," but the depth of their race-based hatred is startling.

Obviously the left will avoid reviewing this work. From my past dealings with them I believe they will summarily dismiss The Professors by labeling it a McCarthyist blacklist plot, and also that those figures discussed are in no way characteristic of college faculties on the whole.

Let me respond to the possible McCarthyist objection first. Although "Naming Names" is best practice in regards to university bias, David Horowitz does not have the power to blacklist anyone. What this work accomplishes is to merely give notice to those leftists who disguise themselves as "liberal" and excuse their propagandize with the phrase, "everything's political," that we're ready to highlight and respond to their transgressions. Identification should allow some students to avoid being subjected to their machinations. Hopefully, more and more moderates will become aware of the brainwashing in store for their children, and boycott colleges which allow lecturers to confuse activism for instruction.

As for representativeness, Horowitz addresses this question in his third chapter. He convincingly postulates that universities are conformist by nature and that faculties are formed in the image of those who do the hiring. This is the method by which our campuses have reached the point of toxicity and where radicals reign supreme. Many times the "long short list" of potential candidates for positions is narrowed down by the department chair and reflect their ideological inclinations. The rest of the department is then presented with a fait accompli or a "pick any leftist you want" scenario when approving new colleagues. The law of group polarization causes colleges to become more and more left wing as, with no dissenting opinions to counter-balance it, the center moves to the extreme.

What one is left with upon completion of The Professors is a sense of sadness. Yes, it's easy to laugh about the don who believes that teaching proper English is akin to oppression, and of the gay professor who opens sections by announcing, "My name is Michael Vocino and I like d*ck," but somebody somewhere is having their bank account, prospects, and perceptions destroyed by this useless evangelizing. Just how many sections of "Gender, Nationalism, and War," "Hip-Hop Eshu: Queen B*tch 101-The Life and Times of Lil' Kim," "They've Killed Kenny," or "Feminist Geography" must one take before being considered truly educated? Such questions are best left unanswered if you're a comptroller at a liberal arts institution.

Students mortgage their futures to pay for classes which will only delude, demoralize, and miseducate them. Only the very young and impressionable could survey America and confuse bounty, liberty, and security with oppression, conspiracy, and hate; yet, novices are exactly the people whom these pseudo-intellectuals lord over. In light of this work and the admission that school is now all-too-often a place for indoctrination, perhaps the next time someone impugns the reader for questioning the patriotism of the left, quote to him or her the words of a scholar : "Under no circumstances, therefore, should we ever support the U.S. government or believe what it says." This can be more accurately applied to the multitude of pronouncements and publications emanating from our corrupted universities.