The Shadow University: The Betrayal
Of Liberty On Americas Campuses by
Press The Free
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At first glance, this title is just another entry in the roster of books opposed
to political correctness at American universities, yet its surprisingly good--
certainly the best of its type since Dinesh DSouzas Illiberal Education
appeared in 1991. Kors and Silverglate are hard-core civil libertarians
turned off by the hidden, systematic assault upon liberty, individualism,
dignity, due process, and equality before the law that they describe as
rampant on campuses. Theirs is not so much a brief against academic
multiculturalism, but an eye-opening narrative about how the modern
university hands students a moral agenda upon arrival, subjects them to
mandatory political reeducation, sends them to sensitivity training,
submerges their individuality in official group identity, intrudes upon
private conscience, treats them with scandalous inequality, and, when it
chooses, suspends or expels them. Through well-told stories and
anecdotes (including an excellent chapter-long sketch of the University of

Pennsylvanias semi-famous water buffalo incident), Kors and Silverglate
make their case and make it well. --John J. Miller
Personal Review: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of
Liberty On Americas Campuses by Press The Free
It is difficult to believe that only forty years ago, American colleges and
universities tilted toward the right and that leftist thought and professors
were the exception rather than the rule. Then starting in the mid 60s, the
left tilt began, and with it an entirely new paradigm of pedagogy became
institutionally entrenched. In THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY, Kors and
Silverglate detail not only how this came about but also sound a clarion call
to today's parents that when deciding which school to send their children
that they ought to consider that school's speech codes at least as
important as the rankings in US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT.
The first thing that all incoming freshman receive at most colleges is a
political/social/sexual/ethnic indoctrination that compares in both kind and
degree to that which used to be used in thuggish regimes of the past. They
are told that white men are inherently biased and racist, that blacks have a
right to exhibit the same racist attitudes that are prohibited to whites, that
the credo in each catalogue that boasts of freedom of speech is
immediately qualified by a depressingly long list of forbidden deeds, words,
and thoughts, and ultimately that a double standard in the treatment of
favored groups is quite the accepted thing.
The authors consider the writings of Herbert Marcuse as a prime reason
for this astonishing turnaround. In the 60s, Marcuse argued that freedom
of speech for all really amounts to a denial of that freedom towards the
weaker such that the stronger could continue to dominate. His solution
was to deny or reduce freedom of the stronger so that the weaker could
compete on what he saw as a more level playing field. His new theory
instantly was trumpted by the left as the answer to institutionalized racism.
In fact, every speech code today can be directly traced to Marcuse. Most
of the chapters in their book list many examples of quotes taken directly
from administrators themselves in their written justifications for their
decisions to punish erring students like Eden Jacobowitz of Penn, who in
1993 called a raucus group of Afro-American females "water buffalo," a
term that to him meant a rude collection of obnoxious revelers but to them
meant a racist euphemism. Jacobowitz spent the next year in politically
correct hell, not for what was in his mind but what was in theirs. It is this
probing of the inner thoughts of students that Kors and Silverglate find
reprehensible. The solution they claim is that sunlight in the best
disinfectant.
Such books as THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY represent a badly needed
wake up call not just for students and parents, but for the power-hungry
administrators who fail to realize that the pendulum that swung left in the
60s could just as quickly swing right, crushing the careers of those who fail
to see the new political writing on the wal..

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