Campus Reform: George Washington University

With the recent passage of gay marriage in the District of Columbia, and Allied In Pride's hosting of Meghan McCain to discuss her silly and juvenile attempts to "redefine republicanism," it is necessary for Americans and especially us conservatives, to voice our defense of traditional marriage.

As I outlined in Hatchet Op-Ed earlier this year, the American people do not want gay marriage, and as in California, we are witnessing democracy fail the pro-gay marriage agenda. This is because the majority of Americans still hold on to traditional societal values and they recognize that the nuclear family is by far the healthiest environment for children and the familial institution.

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This past Wednesday, the George Washington University chapter of Young America’s Foundation in conjunction with the David Horowitz Freedom Center hosted the “Barack Obama Epic Fail Teach-In.” The event, which was a panel discussion follwed by Q and A, sought to expose the failures of Obama’s agenda and the methods he is using to implement them.

The event essentially combined two initiatives. The first was Young America’s Foundation’s “One Year: Epic Fail” campaign, outlining Obama’s failures both domestically and internationally. The second, was an initiative of the David Horowitz Freedom Center using a teach-in model that their new student center is launching. The model is based on their new pamphlet “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model.” The premise of this pamphlet and infused within the presentations of failed liberal policies was the way Obama has used Alinsky’s tactics of subversion to work within the current political order to destroy the American system and way of life.

The panel, which consisted of Donald Lambro of the Washington Times, Chris Horner of CEI and Jonah Goldberg of the National Review, spoke to a sold-out audience about Obama’s failures related to economics, environmental policy and foreign policy respectively.

Editor's Note: This post was promoted to the national blog to show a student's perspective on liberal domination of "the academy."

In 1951, when the precocious 26-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr. published God and Man at Yale, charging the American academy for forcing a liberal ideology upon its students, it caused quite a stir among intellectual and academic circles, not to mention his alma mater.

Dinesh Dsouza’s 1991 bestseller Illiberal Education had a similar effect. However, in recent years, “getting agitated about political correctness on college campuses has been the near exclusive sport of beleaguered conservative professors, rambunctious College Republicans, and David Horowitz.” An April 2007 article in the Claremont Review of Books, compared “complaining about political correctness on campus...to complaining about your taxes in April.”

This rings true in my experiences. As a personal example, this past fall semester in my “20th Century Political Thought” course, during a lecture on the late Richard Rorty’s magnum opus, Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in America, my professor sympathized with Rorty’s criticism of conservatives’ critics of political correctness and liberal bias in the academy. He complained to the class, that conservatives are always talking about the great “political correctness conspiracy.” The question then is, do conservatives have a legitimate complaint about liberal bias in the American higher education system?