To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents.” In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing less than a full-fledged moral crisis.
Three generations ago, William F. Buckley’s classic God and Man at Yale, a critique of enforced liberalism at his alma mater, became a rallying cry of the conservative movement. Today Harden reveals how a loss of purpose, borne of extreme agendas and single-minded political correctness shielded under labels of “academic freedom,” subverts the goals of higher education.
Harden’s provocative narrative highlights the implications of the controversial Sex Week on campus and the social elitism of the Yale “naked party” phenomenon. Going beyond mere sexual expose, Sex and God at Yale pulls the sheets off of institutional licentiousness and examines how his alma mater got to a point where:
• During “Sex Week” at Yale, porn producers were allowed onto campus property to give demonstrations on sexual technique—and give out samples of their products.
• An art student received departmental approval—before the ensuing media attention alerted the public and Yale alumni—for an art project in which she claimed to have used the blood and tissue from repeated self-induced miscarriages.
• The university became the subject of a federal investigation for allegedly creating a hostile environment for women.
Much more than this, Harden examines the inherent contradictions in the partisan politicizing of higher education. What does it say when Yale seeks to distance itself from its Divinity School roots while at the same time it hires a Muslim imam with no academic credentials to instruct students? When the same school that would not allow ROTC on its campus for decades invites a former Taliban spokesperson to study at the university? Or employs a professor who praised Hamas terrorists?
As Harden asks: What sort of moral leadership can we expect from Yale’s presidents and CEOs of tomorrow? Will the so-called “abortion artist” be leading the National Endowment for the Arts in twenty years? Will a future president be practicing moves he or she learned during Sex Week in the closet of the Oval Office? If tyrants tell little girls they aren’t allowed to go to school, will an Ivy-educated Taliban emissary be the one to deliver the message?
Sex and God at Yale is required reading for the parent of any college-bound student—and for anyone concerned about the direction of higher education in America and the implications it has for young students today and the leaders of tomorrow.
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"A fierce expose of the sexual culture of one of America’s great universities."
—David Frum, contributor for CNN, Newsweek, and The Daily Beast; author of The Right Man and The End to Evil
“The ideology of sexual liberation that is the lasting legacy of ‘Me generation’ liberalism and its imbecilic doctrine of ‘if it feels good do it,’ has hardened into an orthodoxy on college campuses around the country. Not only is it uncritically embraced by many students, it is supported by a great many faculty members and abetted and even promoted in a variety of ways by academic administrators. In the spirit of the late William F. Buckley, Nathan Harden takes a hard, critical look at the prevalent sexual liberationist dogmas at Yale, exploring their damaging effects on the educational enterprise and their often tragic consequences in the lives of students.”
—Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
"This startling dispatch from a talented young writer will shame Yale, if the Yale he describes is even capable of feeling shame. Nathan Harden's memoir is a 21st-century sequel to Bill Buckley's God and Man at Yale and its lesson is simple: Don't send your daughters to New Haven."
—John J. Miller, National Review national correspondent, Wall Street Journal contributor, author of The Big Scrum and Our Oldest Enemy
"Only a college administrator could love the sexual playgrounds doubling as America's elite colleges. And only Nathan Harden can give our priapic ivory tower the softoff it deserves. His insight is penetrating; his wit hits the spot; he lands a thousand blows. Most erotic commentators are lucky to make it to third base. With Sex and God at Yale, Harden scores a walk-off grand slam."
—James Poulos, Daily Caller columnist and Forbes contributor
"Hats off to Nathan Harden for exposing the shameful truth about how some of our nation's finest universities have allowed themselves to become cesspools of perversion. Instead of teaching young people moral values and principles, "progressive" faculty and administrators actively promote moral degeneracy and perversion among the leaders of tomorrow."
—Carol Swain, PhD, Professor of Political Science & Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University
“The press has always primly averted its eyes from Sex Week at Yale, reporting only the barest of details from this trashy parade of porn stars and sex toy peddlers, lest it be deemed disapproving or prudish. For its part, the Yale administration has hidden behind the claim that it had no responsibility for the student-organized event (a claim that was always patently false), and that it was obligated to allow the conference to proceed on free speech grounds.
Now Nathan Harden reveals that Sex Week is far more grotesque than anyone outside a university could have imagined. Worse, Yale’s eagerness to promote “glorious sex” among its students, as one bureaucrat put it, goes far beyond the sanctioning of Sex Week. Sex and God at Yale is a jaw-dropping account of one university’s loss of moral compass. Yale has forgotten its mission: to expose students to the most beautiful and challenging creations of human thought, and to confer on them knowledge. Facility in the use of a cock ring is not the type of knowledge which universities are uniquely capable of providing. Unfortunately, Yale’s abdication of adult authority is thoroughly typical of college administrations today. If there are any parents out there who still care about what their children are actually learning in college, this book will alert them to the travesties of higher learning likely occurring at their own child’s school.”
—Heather Mac Donald, a John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
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If the descriptions of the sex lectures and demonstrations make you blanch, if smut and pornography make you blush, skim through these passages. Do not decide not to read this book because of these chapters. They are the but the backdrop of the important final chapters, a clarion call to Yale and to everyone interested in the preservation of human dignity and freedom and in keeping America "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
The notorious Sex Week at Yale is a feast of sex toys, lectures on orgasms, porn stars, porn of all kinds, and books such as "Tickle His Pickle" (p 14). Pundits holding naked parties! And then there's the Yale Daily News "front page full-color photo of a smiling freshman clutching a pair of anal beads" (p 11).
Say goodbye to that freshman's chances of being president.
Look, in fifty years' time, culture can do a 180. Hogarth's debauched London became Victoria's prudish London. An American culture that favored marriage in 1955 has become the culture with an over 50% illegitimacy rate among young women under 30.
As anyone who has ever set foot in an elite university can tell you, what passes for culture is the completely hookup culture, drunken parties, and the occasional suicide. And for this you have to pay them sixty thousand dollars a year.
"Women now outnumber men 57 to 43 percent in our universities...College guys reject young women who press for emotional commitment, because easy, commitment-free hookups can easily be found down the hall" (p 148). Feminist professors, I can assure you as one woman who endured a great many feminist professors, insist this is empowering.
There's plenty of sex, but no pregnant women walking the halls. There are plenty of parties, but no love to be found at our elite universities, and this in a world where, as Roger Scruton says, only love brings happiness. "Naked parties are a mainstream social activity at Yale...A large percentage of students attend such events at least a time or two during their Yale careers" (p 253).
And now let us pause for a bitter laugh: Yale was founded "for the sole purpose of spreading religious faith" (p 226) but it is now a place where Christian religious belief is barely tolerated.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. The faculty could never be called moral or political relativists. On the contrary. They are pitiful conformists who will only tolerate the most liberal of viewpoints. After all, "98 percent of the faculty's political donations went to the Democratic side" (p 235). They are all full of passionate intensity.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
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