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How the Colleges Skew U.S. History

KC Johnson struck me as a left-liberal when I studied with him at Harvard. I’m not sure what he is now, exactly, though he is always interesting to read. Here he looks at the history departments at Bowdoin College and UCLA. It really is as bad as everyone says. You are there for indoctrination. I don’t even mean this post to be an advertisement for Liberty Classroom, but it does remind me I am genuinely providing a service.

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  • Shawn

    As a grad student in history (looks like I’ll be accepted for the Ph.d. program) I can relate to this article. There is a lot of “subaltern” (Tom I’m sure you hoped never to hear that term again!) talk in these courses. However, I have found there is room to take (at least for me) a Rothbardian approach. Oftentimes the professors talk about these groups of people who’ve been harmed by other groups with the aid of the state. I usually take that idea to make the point that, in fact, this should be no surprise. The state has a monopoly on violence (almost fell out of my chair when one prof actually said that exact statement) and uses it to reward certain groups at the expense of other groups.

  • Pastor Ko-Rect

    Someday your course in history become a standard in every school just as the Bible is taught in every church.

  • http://www.facebook.com/MattM0823 Matt Miller

    While it’s true that colleges are heavily subsidized and we aren’t dealing with a true free market by any means, part of me wonders if don’t have the cause and effect backwards here.

    Presumably, these schools wouldn’t offer courses on environmental history or entire programs in African-American Studies unless students were demanding them. A great deal of indoctrination has already been done at incredibly young ages. Someone who gets to college with a free-market attitude isn’t going to sign up for a course in environmental history, or consider a women’s studies degree to be worth the paper it’s printed on.

    But the kids who have been successfully brainwashed by the pro-state propaganda since they were in preschool will show up thinking these are perfectly legitimate academic disciplines. They won’t become newly indoctrinated, they’ll just have their biases confirmed.

    Objections over government funding aside (and I know this is a key issue), if people WANT to pay exorbitant sums of money to learn useless phony history, shouldn’t defenders of the free market allow them to do so?

  • Justin

    I would not want a left liberal slant to history either but i am not sure the alternative is better. I had a conservative pro America history perspective from grade school to high-school, where America did not wrong and government saved the world from evil. So i am not sure the usual alternative is better. Maybe another reason to join Liberty Classroom.