Ben Shapiro - 14 Jun

Advance Praise for
BRAINWASHED

Ben Shapiros courage and insight should provide inspiration not only for other young conservatives on campus, but also for their parents. His book is a welcome sign that all is not lost for this new generation.

MICHAEL MEDVED,
nationally syndicated radio host and author of Hollywood vs. America

Dont tell me a book this brilliant was written by a college kid barely out of his teens. Its got to have been written by a gutsy old sage who somehow got himself embedded into UCLA and whose piercing observations have the power to save the oncoming generation from tyrants with tenure.

BARRY FARBER,
nationally syndicated radio host

With wit and verve, Ben ShapiroAmericas youngest national columnist provides a firsthand account of how liberal pieties masquerade as the only truth in todays corrupted universities. With luck, his critique will help others begin to the take those steps needed to fix the campus and return it to its esteemed place in our national life.

DANIEL PIPES,
founder of Campus Watch and columnist for the New York Sun

Been there. Done that (Tulane, A&S, 91). Ben gets it exactly right about the modern collegiate brainwash. Thankfully, beer and Mardi Gras saved me from full indoctrination. But Shapiros unassailable book, most assuredly, is the healthier blueprint to avoiding Marx and Engels witting accomplices.

ANDREW BREITBART,
co-author of Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon The Case Against Celebrity

A brilliant new voice for a new generation of activists: Dont miss Ben Shapiros new book!

HUGH HEWITT,
nationally syndicated radio host and author of In, But Not Of

This book reveals how deeply entrenched a noxious culture of hatred for America and Western values has become among those who teach our nations young men and women. Shapiro delivers a sobering wake-up call for all Americans, detailing the pressing need toas the Left might put ittake back our colleges and universities.

ROBERT SPENCER,
director of Jihad Watch and author of Onward Muslim Soldiers and Islam Unveiled

In Brainwashed, Ben Shapiro rips the liberal university system to shreds.

With an arch wit and insiders perspective, Shapiro exposes how liberal group-think has spread bacteria-like through our education system and is threatening to squash genuine debate in our schools.

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS
nationally syndicated columnist

Shapiro has a razor-sharp pen. His pointed criticism is directed at the overwhelming percentage of college professors who believe Islam is good and Christianity is bad, who dont accept that capitalism beat socialism because capitalism is ending centuries of destitution, and who worship skin-color diversity but who blithely create strict campus rules against diversity of speech.

JILL STEWART
Capitol Punishment syndicated columnist, radio and television political commentator

BRAINWASHED

HOW UNIVERSITIES
INDOCTRINATE
AMERICAS YOUTH

BEN SHAPIRO

Copyright 2004 by Ben Shapiro

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or otherexcept for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by WND Books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shapiro, Ben.
Brainwashed : how universities indoctrinate Americas youth / Ben Shapiro.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7852-6148-6
1. Education, HigherPolitical aspectsUnited States. 2. Education, HigherSocial aspectsUnited States. 3. College teachersUnited StatesAttitudes. 4. College studentsUnited StatesAttitudes. I. Title: How universities indoctrinate America's youth. II. Title.
LC89.S484 2004
378.73dc22

2004001945

Printed in the United States of America

04 05 06 07 08 BVG 5 4 3 2 1

To my parents,
who taught me the difference between right and wrong and gave me the strength to confront falsehood.

CONTENTS

T hese are strange times on Americas university campuses. While professors use their position to indoctrinate their students, the classical liberal view of higher learning has given way to the modern liberal view of lower living.

Reporting on this decline has posed a bit of a problem for WND Books because to paint the full picture has required author Ben Shapiro to quote some fairly crude material and deal with offensive subject matter. Publishing material of this sort is not something we as a publisher do; its against our corporate policy. But in this instance we have done so for one simple and vital reason: To know what students are really getting themselves into requires they know whats really going on.

We do not publish this material to appeal to prurient interests but to more fully advise and inform students, parents, and those concerned about the university system and what they can expect from it.

DAVID DUNHAM
Publisher, WND Books

BY DAVID LIMBAUGH

I cant tell you how many times Ive heard peopleincluding myself muse how interesting it would be if they could relive their lives as teenagers or college students with the knowledge, savvy, and experience they have acquired through their additional years. Of course its idle fantasy, but as Ive come to know Ben Shapiro over the past few years, Ive been reminded of that very thought.

Ive met my share of precocious young adults who were talented in their own way but never one with the intellectual maturity and insight of Ben. To borrow the clich, he has wisdom well beyond his years. Which is what makes his book, examining the university culture, unique.

It seems that most of these types of books are written either by professors or those outside the system. By contrast, this book is an insiders look at academic indoctrination from one currently being victimized by it. But Bens perspective is not limited to that of a university student with blinders to everything but his studies. He is also an astute political analyst and cultural critic, already writing a nationally syndicated column. So with Brainwashed we get a sophisticated and firsthand critique of the university as an institution of ideological propaganda for the leftwing, secular worldview. And the book deliversconfirming our worst fears about modern academia.

It covers, topic by topic, all the major issues on college campuses and all the major aspects of college life, convincingly documenting the overt liberal bias among professors and shattering the conventional wisdom that their bias is irrelevant to their teaching. The bias has deep historical roots in this country and is growing in intensity. It covers the gamut, from accusing Republicans of stealing the presidential election in 2000, passing tax cuts for the rich, robbing seniors of their Social Security benefits, and poisoning our air and water, to praising the failed system of Marxism and denouncing capitalism. The outrage doesnt end there. Shapiro also documents the shocking professorial promotion of sexual deviancy and even their inexcusable justifications of terrorism.

Shapiro goes beyond merely exposing the bias. Using hard data and reasoned argument, he also debunks the myths and distortions propagated by a professoriate incapable of objective analysis because of its ideological enslavement. An example is its blind advocacy of minimum wage laws to help the poor even though most economists oppose them because they lead to job cutbacks.