Freefall Of The American University : How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation

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Summary: This book hits the mark.
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When done, the reader of this book needs to visit the Web site "The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education," at <http://www.thefire.org.> This org defends students who have actually gone against the political correctness that is discussed.

The reader may also want to visit Speech Codes Web site at <http://www.speechcodes.org> that tracks the words students are not allowed to use on campus. The org is not talking about "The seven words one can't say on television." It's talking about words like "girlfriend" and "boyfriend," speechcodes.org telling you the universities these restrictions belong to.

Also, one doesn't need this book to tell them that professors have been pushing left-wing ideology as bullies in the classroom, discouraging real debate. There have been too many real complaints from students in the news, ones who felt their free speech was spit on by radical professors; professors who would otherwise be fired in a public school environment for trespassing on student rights.

Finally, if you really want an education on what's going on at some American universities that will raise the hair on the back of your head, visit Academic Bias on the Web at <http://www.academicbias.com>. Click and download the movie titled "Brainwashing 101." You will see real-live college administrators on film and at work discouraging free speech, even calling the campus police for the smallest of infractions that suggest the existence of free thought other than what the university has pre-approved.

While you might see some reviews of this book displaying a distrust for people of religion, many of today's universities had their literal foundations built on early Christian values in America but now taken over by strange and sick ideologies. One doesn't have to look far to find them, such as Professor Singer of Princeton who advocates humans have sex with non-humans (animals) his saying in an interview, "If your dog can tell you when he wants to go out, he can tell you other things, too."

What this has to do with an education is beyond me; Princeton putting the professor in the "Human Ethics Department" at a time when over 40,000,000 Americans have an STD, according to the CDC. Now the CDC has released a new warning that 50% of today's teenagers will have an STD by age 25-years old, certainly the CDC attributing the spread of the diseases to the lack of discipline at universities they will be attending.

The fact these students can no longer give blood for the general public is certain to come back and bite us all in a national emergency; something else universities are probably not mentioning in the name of political correctness, a subject this book could easily add as an addendum titled "Consequences."

I wonder if one were to talk about The Fourth Estate on campus to university students today, would they think it's a new bar down the street, this book documenting American History is hard to find in a world that doesn't want to teach, but to preach?

Give this book a good read, then go to the above Web sites to see the real world you've just read about.

Freedom is knowledge. The absence of freedom is bondage, this one spelled with a silent P as in Ph.D.


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Summary: Accurate portrayal of today's universities
Review: As a recent college grad myself, I can vouch for the validity of this book. Some reviewers may try to convince you this is Christian propoganda, but that simply isn't the case. The fact is that professors today are not trying to be fair and balanced. They are trying to make students agree with their perspective, and the vast majority of that time, that perspective is left-leaning. Far left-leaning. The scary part is, most students are naive enough to take everything these professors say as fact and don't even realize they're being brainwashed. Jim Nelson Black really gets into the details of this situation with examples from the best of America's university and interviews with very respected professors. You will be blown away by the truth. Let's hope this book will wake up America.

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Summary: it is about time
Review: My response when I bought this book was "it is about time someone wrote this book!" It documents how our colleges are corrupting the minds and morals of the next generation. Having taught in several American colleges and Universities for over 35 years, I have seen this first hand. I love the university and intellectual life, but have seen intolerance in academia grow to the point that its faculty are now often in a different world than the rest of America. An example is the intolerance against Republicans. I do not agree with many Republican ideas (and am generally an independent, and we are usually ignored, so I personally do not have a problem here), but there is something wrong when over 90 percent of all faculty in most departments are Democrats, socialists, or communists (Marxists or conflict theorists). This concern is discussed in detail in this book. As I am on the science faculty, one area that does strike close to home is the intolerance toward those who doubt Darwin. For example, on page 230 Black discusses intolerance at Harvard (in contrast I have several good Darwin doubter friends who earned their Ph.D. in science at Harvard). Black claimed that "critical discussion of Darwin is taboo" at Harvard (this is what my friends also claimed) and that the "modern university has no religion but Darwinism... the most important question for any society to ask is the one that is [now] forbidden" Page 231. How true. Those who disagree are the ones who should be reading this book.



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Summary: does more harm than good
Review: The author of this book has his heart in the right place. He wants to expose the closed-mindedness and indoctrination that are going on in the humanities/arts/education/religion/"studies" departments in almost all American universities. Unfortunately, he is not equipped to do this task. His method is to visit a campus, state at length what he thinks is wrong, quote verbatim and at length from an interviewee who has the same opinion, then move on to another interviewee or another university. The opposition could use the same method to show that things are perfect on campus! Also, his owns prejudices sometimes get aired as though they were as obvious as the issues of free speech and unfettered inquiry, as some of the reviewers here have fastened on. The fact is, we know from other books that the things this author portrays are happening. Undecided readers would do better to consult those other books first. Unfortunately, the mistakes and the one-sidedness of this book give an easy way out to those who are wary of anyone who disagrees with their honored professors.

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Summary: These Are the Facts
Review: The reviewers who are attacking the author have obviously not read the book. There is no way to refute the data here. These are facts about what is happening at schools around the country. There are interviews with high ranking professors at very prestigious schools. They tell you, in their own words, what is happening at their schools. The author's opinion is based on his investigation. This is an impressive, thought-provoking and very well-organized book that will shed light on exactly what is going on in today's universities. Jim Nelson Black really has done his research.

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Summary: Sad, but true.
Review: This book is mandatory reading, not only for parents of those who may be headed for college, but for current students and their parents as well, ... that is, if the safety and well-being of their children, as well as the future of this country is of any concern to them.

The stark reality of the transformation of our educational institutions from halls of learning into seedy bastions of perverse indoctrination is portrayed all too clearly by Jim Nelson Black, ... and its frightening. The author did well to draw not only upon academics and other credentialed observers for input, but also from among the more keenly aware students.

It is very disturbing to learn that the once cherished goal of sending Johnny or Jane to a local college for higher education has now become a potentially dangerous proposition. Unfortunately, today, Johnny and Jane may indeed graduate from what now seems like Sodom University or Gommorah Tech. ... with a degree, but they may also come away with more than they wanted, and it has nothing to due with knowledge.

The moral decay and perversion of principles on today's campuses is not taking place in a vacuum. While it may be going on behind the backs of many parents, those in positions of influence and authority are, or should be aware of the damage that is taking place, ... but then again, tenure has a way of accelerating the onset of deafness, dumbness, and blindness.

Those who do try to spend their college years in earnest pursuit of knowledge often find themselves ostracized or confronted with either academic malaise or coming under the tutelage of some of the most extreme of the anti-authority and anti-establishment anarchists whose purpose is not to teach, ... but to recruit and indoctrinate.

The rest of us should not dismiss what is going on as a phenomenon that is restricted to the campus and its local environs, ... it has more far-reaching effects than some may be willing to admit. After all, these would-be graduates may receive a degree purporting some sort of academic achievement, and that is suspect in and of itself, ... but what is not inscribed on that faux sheepskin is the degree to which any given student has been exposed to radical counter-cultural philosophy and who-knows-what else, so that the Johnny and Jane that Mom and Dad sent off to college emerge four years later as the minions of the septic perversion that they have been steeped in.

This book, along with Ben Shapiro's "Brainwashed:How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth" are must reads, not only for parents and students, but for the rest of us as well, ... after all, the students of today will supposedly be the leaders of tomorrow, ... and right now, that is not exactly something to look forward to.


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Summary: This book is christian propaganda at its best!
Review: This book is the Christian whine heard around the world. It is about Christians who are mad because Universities teach everything in an open fair way instead of teaching Christian values. They use the guise in the book of being republicans not wanting such a liberal teaching stance, but you can see right through it. How obtuse for this nations Christians to try and make everything about them and their religion....it is a religion, not the way of the world. It is such Christian propaganda. I was disgusted.

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Summary: Christian Propaganda
Review: You'd have to be a moron to not see through this book. This book is homophobic, closed minded, and just another piece of christian propaganda. Get into something thought provoking like Chomski or Zinn. Don't waste your time on a book written by someone who's beliefs revolve around their fear of an imaginary friend.