Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
Brainwashed is the explosive exposé of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro—syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices—who’s been on the front lines of the battle for America's young minds. This book proves once and for all that so-called higher education continues to sink lower and lower into the depths of liberal madness as close-minded professors turn their students into socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and sex-crazed narcissists.
In this book, author Ben Shapiro asks three critical questions:
- Why are universities so biased?
- Why do students take their professors at face value?
- What can we do to stop it?
In addition to outlining practical solutions as part of a multi-pronged strategy to deal with this problem, Brainwashed encourages students to
- consider the motives of their professors;
- pay attention to how professors use facts and editorialize during lectures; and
- ask questions, encourage debate, and think before buying into a professor’s mindset.
Praise for Brainwashed:
"Ben Shapiro's writing is smart, informative, and incisive. He is wise beyond his years without losing the refreshing fearlessness of youth." Ann Coulter, bestselling author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Slander, and Treason
"In Brainwashed, Shapiro tells the truth—that universities are forums of left-liberal indoctrination, where dissent is discouraged and penalized, with more restrictions on free speech rather any other part of American society. Parents who are paying for tuition might want to take note, and see what their hard-earned money is paying for." Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics
"Welcome to P.C. 101. In this trenchant insider's expose, Ben Shapiro bears witness to the modern American campus freak show. You'll get up close and personal with the Marxist loons, moral relativists, multicultural zealots, and American-haters who are corrupting young minds. Brainwashed reveals the ignominious lows to which higher education has sunk. Get deprogrammed. Buy this book!" Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of Invasion
"Sharp thinking, tight writing, crazy-but-true stories: Ben Shapiro sees campus brainwashing and raises a national protest. This is a good book to give both freshmen who need warning and voters/alumni who need to take action." Dr. Marvin Olasky, University of Texas professor and editor-in-chief of World magazine
"A worthy successor to God and Man at Yale and Harvard Hates America in exploring the belly of the academic beast." David Horowitz, founder of Students for Academic Freedom and author of Radical Son and Left Illusions
"What Animal House did for the toga party, Brainwashed should do for American resistance to campus radicalism." Rusty Humphries, nationally syndicated radio talk show host
Reviews (163)
Loved it.
Ben Shapiro presents a thought-provoking argument, backed up by an incredible amount of research, revealing much of academic leadership in the U.S. as radically liberal. Shapiro demonstrates how liberal professors, in an incredibly unbalanced atmosphere, use their lectern to spout liberal propaganda and anti-American sentiment. Before reading this book I was aware of the liberal bias in institutions of higher learning, but I was ignorant concerning the astonishing depth of the problem. It appears that America has an enormous challenge ahead to return our colleges and Universities to a platform of education without indoctrination. A very well written book.
Must read for students of any age!
As a college student, I feel as if much of the content taught in classroom has an underlying agenda. Thank you Ben for helping me to specifically identify the instances of extreme bias. Ben is so good at putting thoughts into words, backing those thoughts with facts, and destroying the liberal agenda. Great read for students of any age as well as adults and parents!
Shapiro does an amazing job of encompassing the agenda that is sweeping most ...
This book has me absolutely in awe! Shapiro does an amazing job of encompassing the agenda that is sweeping most of the nation's universities. What a great read for those going into college!
Had potential, didn’t completely hit the mark
This book struggles to make any eloquent, solid point. I bought it hopeful and while it does have some interesting points, each topic is not fully developed. Instead it seems like the main goal was to hit as many controversial items as possible and results as a jumble of short, not fully substantiated ideas. Definitely a quantity over quality book.
informative and reinforcing. very well referenced. was reassuring ...
informative and reinforcing.very well referenced. was reassuring to my young relative who is in an ivy league school and has been quite distressed about the extremity of the left wing political positions rampant there--no freedom of speech if you disagree even slightly with the left wing political thought-- very scary. she thought there was something innately wrong with her before reviewing this book.
Can't be Ben's best work
I like Shapiro from what I hear on internet and radio. I think he wrote this book when he was a teenager, and it kind of shows. The depth of argumentation is not what I expected. However, he speaks from his experience which makes the book valuable to that extent.
Mostly good.
His presentation has matured since then. So not as penetrating as his current work. However, an important book that is well written especially considering he was only 17.
Five Stars
Ben Shapiro describes the liberal agenda spot on. Very informative.
Read this before writing out that check
This book is a must-read for parents about to send their children off to college with the expectation they will receive an actual education. Those days appear to be long gone as educators these days appear to view their roles as ideological transformers rather than spurs to interrogation and independent thinking. Shapiro presents what students do receive instead--a barrage of leftist indoctrination that begins from day one and doesn't cease till graduation. This "education" is as intellectually bankrupt as it gets, for, at the end of the day, while students may come to share their professors politics they actually know nothing and have had no practice in thinking for themselves..
Very Bizarre and dangerous from North American college
This is the best written book by 17 years old. Today society is very scary right now; today most of college graduates and college students are supporting democratic socialism; I wonder why college professors are brainwashing these students. Since 2016 the leftists are just insanely popular; most of college students are considered leftist. There are even Marxist theory class and that include Canada; they want to silence right wing professors and students for the free speech just like socialism/communism. Somehow Ben Shapiro mentioned most of college professors make them to sympathize terrorists, and criminals; making them anti-capitalist, and anti-american; that is related to Black Lives Matter Marxist Movement which is they are giving feeling to criminal, abolish capitalism, and ridding off significant amounts of police.
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