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Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor (Hardcover)

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This lively collection of essays surveys the campus culture wars from the conservative side of the trenches. Adams, a criminal justice professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, takes a big swipe at the politically correct, feminists, gay activists, the diversity establishment and what he portrays as the mealy-mouthed administrators and thin-skinned colleagues and students who are quick to fire off thoughtless allegations of racism and sexism. He takes on Cornel West, for his defense of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and The Vagina Monologues, for a general over-ripeness, but mostly sticks to his own experiences asserting First Amendment rights against what he feels is the heavy-handed and censorious climate of left-wing orthodoxy at his own school. Adams clearly relishes the role of conservative gadfly. He casts himself as the eternal target of tirades in the cafeteria or the men’s room, and enjoys offering up provocative Modest Proposals, like university affirmative action programs for underrepresented Republicans, or a Men’s Resource Center where victims of false rape accusations can retreat for counseling. The book’s last 50 pages are devoted to an acrimonious exchange of e-mails with a radical student over the September 11 attacks, which escalated into an accusation of libel and an investigation of Adams’s e-mail by UNCW, and finally ignited a national press rumpus that landed him a guest spot on Hannity and Colmes. Some of the contretemps he writes about, like a professor’s wild charges of sexual harassment and "terrorism" against some colleagues, or a catfight between two female professors over a male job applicant, seem like little more than departmental politics run amok. But Adams has a dry wit and a sharp, if partisan, eye for the excesses and fatuities of the left, one that raises important issues about attitudes toward free speech and tolerance on campus.
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Remember the ivory tower of Babel in the Old Testament? College campuses are more biblical than liberals think.

As Mike S. Adams explains in his new book Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor, most college campuses are in a state of turmoil, not unlike that of the story in Genesis.

Adams was an atheist and a Democrat when he started teaching criminal justice at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington in 1993. However, when he renounced those stands and became a Christian and a Republican in the late 1990s, he also began taking a stand against the lack of diversity and equal treatment of all men and women at his university.

Adams first uses a batch of letters he penned to university leaders and students to illustrate the irony of diversity and affirmative action at UNC. He then offers column-formatted prose to explain and challenge the move toward a politically correct and non-Christian campus environment. Hardcore feminism and "Queer Studies" are examples he cites that are flourishing on campus, while schools risk losing funding unless they downplay connections to Christ, Christianity and faith.

The final part of Adams' book is dedicated to explaining the controversy that brought him and the university into the news in 2001 and 2002 ? his challenge that free speech has its consequences and that all Americans - conservative and liberal alike -have the right to express their opinions.

While Adams touches on many hot topics, including abortion, racism, and Christianity, the book's primary thesis is one of encouragement. "Conservative students can succeed on college campuses," he argues, "just as can their liberal counterparts." He urges college administrators to treat all students with fairness and dignity, regardless of political or religious views.

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  • Hardcover: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Harbor House; 1ST edition (May 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1891799177
  • ISBN-13: 978-1891799174
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars dave barry meets ann coulter, April 6, 2004
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This book discusses important free speech issues. Adams writes a lot like Ann Coulter. However, the humorous spin he puts on weighty issues and the serious spin he puts on mundane issues distinguishes him. He is, in many ways, like Dave Barry.
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120 of 136 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read...except in Canada, apparently., June 7, 2004
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Though hardly definitive disections of university life, this book and Ben Shapiro's "Brainwashed" offer enlightening and entertaining glimpses of the experiences of a professor at UNC Wilmington (Adams) and student at UCLA (Shapiro). Of the two, Adams' book is better, but both are worthwhile.

"Ivory Tower" is limited primarily to Adams' own encounters with campus radicalism within the UNC system (mostly Wilmington and Chapel Hill) and doesn't provide the usual laundry list of anecdotes from other schools. This is the book's strong point, I think. Basing his argument on his personal experiences lends greater credibility to his case, and his sense of sarcasm makes the book a fun read along the way. If you're interested in the topic, I think you'll be satisfied.

As for that reviewer from Canada who slammed the book (or, more specifically, the author), once you've finished "Ivory Tower" you'll no doubt be easily able to imagine how Dr. Adams would respond, since this person's supposedly "liberal and open-minded" attitude towards those who think differently is precisely what this book is scrutinizing. Which makes me wonder, O Canada, did you actually read the book? And have you thought through the self-contradiction of claiming that liberals at universities should exclude conservatives because if conservatives are allowed in they will exclude non-conservatives? And what "fringe" ideas does Dr. Adams reveal in his book? Your review says more about you than it does "Ivory Tower," and what it says about you is what makes this book necessary.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Today's liberal higher educational system, the truth..., May 13, 2004
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Dr. Mike Adams writes clearly, honestly and in today's educational and political context.

His premise regards the loss of Constitutional rights within the "higher learning" system of today's tax supported university system. His experience as a Criminal Justice Professor at University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNCW) provides the background and dramatic insight into what is wrong in education today.

He has taken personal experiences, letters, emails, and other correspondence and woven them into a book that should have been published long ago by others involved in higher education.

The content of his book is drawn from his deeply personal experience with students, fellow faculty members and the UNCW administration.

His background, from liberal to conservative, is well and honestly documented.

Dr. Adams provides irrefutable, documented facts demonstrating that the liberal education establishment is actively engaged in promoting the liberal/left-wing agenda, and smothering free speech and open discourse for those who do not adhere to the liberal line. Those free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America. That university students subjected to same are hearing and seeing only one side of their purported education, becomes obvious as one reads his carefully documented references.

Dr. Adams did not, in my opinion, write this book for self aggrandizement, but only to inform the public of what their children are subjected to at university, and how their tax dollars are spent at public institutions. He is sincere in his desire to see that open discourse is allowed for all students, professors and the campus organizations to which they belong. Open and free speech for all, as described in his book, is what I believe is the true meaning of "diversity".

All parents of current or prospective students of higher education and those whose taxes support public colleges and universities should read Dr. Adams book.

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I like his writing and ideas and enjoyed the book. However most of the content was published in his column. If you haven't read his column you'll enjoy the books. Read more
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