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William F. Buckley Jr.

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom' Paperback – July 1, 2004

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"For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias.

In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude" that prevailed at his alma mater. The book, God and Man at Yale, rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr. into the public spotlight. Now, half a century later, read the extraordinary work that began the modern conservative movement.

Buckley's harsh assessment of his alma mater divulged the reality behind the institution's wholly secular education, even within the religion department and divinity school. Unabashed, one former Yale student details the importance of Christianity and heralds the modern conservative movement in his preeminent tell-all, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."

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300 pages
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English
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ISI Conservative Classics
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July 1, 2004
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
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089526692X
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978-0895266927
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William F. Buckley Jr., who founded National Review magazine in 1955, is the author of more than forty books. For more than thirty years he hosted the television show Firing Line, and his newspaper column, "On the Right," is syndicated to more than three hundred newspapers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ ISI Conservative Classics; 1ST edition (July 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 089526692X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0895266927
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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Cecelia Passarella

Thought provoking reading

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019

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Very engaging book improves the quality of your vernacular. Very relevant even after 50 years as that which was at the time (bias in education) is absolutely true today and has permeated all other levels of society and it’s interaction with conservative thinkers.

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God and Academic Freedom. We have the duty to control the education of our children.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015

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Academic Freedom. The two words which educators throw at you when you challenge what they are teaching. This book will explain why they should not be allowed to get away with this. Although it is written through an alumni's eyes, Yale being a private institution, there is still no excuse for what Yale has been teaching. They do not want input from parents or alumni -- just their money. As in the public schools where taxpayers and parents have a right to be heard, the failure lies not only with the school but with those who do not get involved. The influence of Yale can be seen in countless ways across the nation, as with other colleges and universities. I wish someone would do the same type of book on Columbia Teachers College. Although many teachers are outright hostile to God, others simply ignore God. Both send signals to the students.

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David Elkins

High praise for William F. Buckley, Jr. ~ again.

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016

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William F. Buckley introduced to our Republic the undermining of the nation’s higher education via an unfortunate and relentless liberal agenda within academia. This Buckley classic reveals a disease that had infected most universities by the end of World War II ~ atheism and socialism. This book is an easy read and is a remarkable cultural achievement by the then 25 year old Buckley.

The forgotten subtitle of Buckley's book "academic freedom is a superstition" in America was correct and has been since the late 1890's when religious associations with their founding Christian churches were severed. The antecedents to both atheism and socialism within higher academia by 1900 were cast aside in the name of academic freedom of expression and progressiveness. Yale long ago lost the traditional values that placed it, at one time, among the nation’s elite.

Buckley pointed insight still rings true; "Freedom breeds inequality. Unless you have freedom to be unequal, there is no such thing as freedom."

There was no academic freedom at Yale in 1951 (or as early as the late 1890's) and there is certainly no freedom there now. If anything, this malignancy of academic bigotry (which Buckley so eloquently describes) has metastasized to the point that certain death awaits any Man who seeks God within the halls of Yale University.

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

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Richard E. J. Burke

He wrote a wonderful critique of Yale--and every other modern university

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015

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I went to Yale Graduate School a decade after Buckley did undergrad. He wrote a wonderful critique of Yale--and every other modern university. The United States' educational system failed first in the universities, which turned out the teachers that failed to teach the primary, intermediate, and secondary school students--and the nation at large in the halls of business, industry, finance, government, and the arts. I agree with Buckley on why they failed.

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Gdalan

WFB probes the sacred cows of academia

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2011

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Obviously a book about the state of college life and of Yale in particular which was written in the early fifties will take some lumps for its dated references to the specific personalities and issues of Yale life in 1950. His main theses are that collectivism, an older term which, as the author points out in an updated prologue, has morphed in "liberalism", is the dominant principle which guides the teaching of Economics, Philosophy and the social sciences, and secondly that, by any reasonable measure, agnosticism and atheisism are the prominent world views held by the majority of faculty and are in full evidence even in the Department of Religion. Not only do you sense his personal frustrations (being a Catholic and an advocate of small government), but there is a note of dismay at the apparent hypocrisy of Yale with respect to its alumni. The latter were encourage to shore up the finances of the college with their generous giving but were not to be given much say in the philosophical direction of the school, even though Yale paid lip service to the importance of the alumni in preserving its integrity and traditions. In fact, as Buckley points out, if the largely Christian and Jewish business men who made up the alumni knew that the Yale faculty was in large part atheistic (and sometimes highly scornful of Christianity)and believed that big government (specifically Keynseyism) was the answer to society's ills, there would have been far more calls for accountability. But sadly, the alumni were discouraged from questioning the philosophical direction of the college for fear of breaching the sacred veil of 'academic freedom' and from general apathy and lack of reasonable information. Buckley's book began an important intellectual discourse in the US about the direction of our culture. His wit and mastery of the written word is still fresh and entertaining.

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CasteloBranco

Surprisingly still relevant

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020

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As you can probably see, this book was the first book published by William F Buckley, who would go on to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American conservative thinkers of the 20th century. A lot has changed since he wrote this book, but quite a few of his observations are still quite insightful and relevant. There are some rough parts and a few bad arguments, but it's still an impressive work for a recent college graduate.

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Thesearlenest

The wisdom of Bill Buckley

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2020

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Buckley was wise and almost prophetic in his time. This should be mandatory reading for all parents.

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Tom Gibbs

It's amazing that Buckley would write this at the age of ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015

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It's amazing that Buckley would write this at the age of 24, and maybe more amazing that it was published in 1951. It is not a work of great literature or even deep social commentary. In many ways it reads like a precocious 24 year old who just graduated from college.

But his point was valid then, and is valid today. The academic norms for economics, sociology and political science have been almost universally co-opted by a collectivist mind set. Academic freedom is in fact a superstition.

Well worth the read.

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