From the author, Harvey A. Silverglate
<has@world.std.com> ,
The subject matter covered by this book.
At the end of the 20th century, something profoundly
disturbing is happening to higher education in America.
Universities now enforce a politically correct agenda through
censorship, double standards, and kanagroo courts. Faculty
and students who dissent from the new orthodoxy are stripped
of their civil liberties, some even forced to undergo
intrusive and partisan "sensitivity training."
Universities have become the enemy of a free society. This
book is a stinging indictment and exposure of injustices and
coerced conformity on college campuses. The book explains the
utopian and totalitarian ideology underlying the new speech
and behavioral codes, a worldview that favors group over
individual rights and that would sacrifice freedom and
equality before the law on behalf of its political goals. The
book also offers a legal, strategic, and moral blueprint for
restoring liberty at our colleges and universities. The book
exposes a state of affairs that will shock anyone who
considers free speech, equal justice under law, respect for
conscience, and fairness to be at once the foundations and
bulwark of American liberty.