Reviews
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
REVIEWS In God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr., conservatism's Joe Namath, stigmatized "academic freedom" as regnant liberaldom's camouflage for indoctrinating deludable students to...
...Thoreau went to jail protesting what he considered unjust laws, yet he believed in the necessity for law and did not resist his arrest...
...Worse, it is certain to become a political issue in the 1968 election in Indiana and will probably result in further cuts in an already inadequate academic budget...
...I do not react to articles by convinced leftists as they react to mine...
...These spiffy liberals generally dismiss Barry Goldwater and twentyseven million voters as the "radical right", disdaining them as a national disgrace...
...Rather, I might adopt Dr...
...The fanaticism of these apocalyptic gurus needs to be contained...
...By research of popular textbooks I.S.I, asserts that, especially in the liberal arts, an establishment point of view is so uniformly amplified it practically assumes the nature of a party line...
...First, what is this going to do to I.U...
...I doubt that either students or administration would welcome "anarchy on the campus" as a political issue next year...
...As Hofstadter-Miller-Aaron announce, 10...
...2, pp...
...This book is an unscrupulous hatchet job following the pattern set by Foster and Epstein...
...Perhaps it was to enable the Red Chinese to beat Chiang, for later he states that China "inevitably would have been won by the efficiency, incorruptibility, and ruthless fanaticism of Mao Tsetung," due to "the ancient resentments against foreign domination, the pent up demand for agrarian reform (sic), the growing revulsion against the corruption and terrorism of the Kuomintang, and the skill and tenacity with which the Chinese Communists were to exploit these discontents...
...Rather than categorizing the "vogueish orthodoxy" unsound one might say it is not given a fair chance to be controverted...
...are the sort of leadership the students want now...
...Genuine fascism is a left-wing, not a right-wing, heresy...
...if the masses agree with them, the will of the people is sovereign, but if the masses do not agree with them, the people have clearly been deceived and retarded and must be led to the light...
...One of their tribe, George Thayer, in his study of extremist groups, The Farther Shores of Politics, devotes all but a fourth of his book to discussing the Right...
...Ridiculed for his supposed ignorance of politics, Eisenhower suffers innuendoes and slanted barbs...
...They then turn to Washington to cure all the ills that man inherits...
...This interpretation has been controverted by many competent scholars and recently we have heard murmurs from the Olympian heights of Harvard and Chicago...
...In The National Experience he avers that Roosevelt "had good reasons for not wishing to abandon China...
...no amount of contrary evidence can shake their belief in equality, in planning, in the perfectibility of man...
...Their confidence is not dependent on popular support...
...Conservative League...
...737-38) Maybe Mao is not such a bad fellow after all, eh...
...Not alone in harassing the Establishment's inviolate system, National Review's intellectual gadfly has received assistance from the conservatively oriented Intercollegiate Studies Institute (represented on this campus by the I.U...
...In American history this party line is indistinguishable from the precepts of Establishment Liberalism...
...He modestly refers to himself as "in the mainstream...
...The logical conclusion can be seen in Communist states where not only illegal actions but illegal words and, as far as possible, illegal thoughts are suppressed...
...The opinions of the "vogueish orthodoxy" are not necessarily unsound, but honestly fellows, you are liberals, and further, you so permeate the Academy that students seeking alternatives will have better luck pursuing the Holy Grail...
...If there is a menace in America, students learn that it probably emanates from the business community, surely not from internal Communism...
...If irresponsible activity of this sort continues it will impose needless burdens on the legitimate activities of the students...
...In reading the eight most popular American history text books one will encounter hardly the faintest hue of unorthodox interpretation...
...The miasma from the fever swamps of the New Left is now wafting from our student government...
...Nothing must be allowed to impede its working...
...No great teacher can avoid indoctrinating, but he must face the reality that he is in fact indoctrinating...
...Will it continue to do so much longer...
...Vol...
...697) Speaking ex cathedra as is his wont, he feels no compulsion even to adumbrate what these "good reasons" were...
...their use of the platform which the student government now provides them is misleading as to the true feelings of the student body...
...2, p. 516) After two years of New Deal legislation, the battle lines were drawn between a violently (sic) hostile conservative opposition and a powerful coalition dedicated to the President's support...
...Liberals shrieked disapproval at Buckley's term "indoctrination", but what professor is so shallow as to take no interest in imparting his convictions to his students...
...He discusses manifestly responsible groups like the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the New York Conservative Party in the same section as the Minutemen under the rubric, "The Far Right...
...Often the Roosevelt administration's techniques for recovery (sic) and relief irritated the conservative opponents — sometimes almost to the point of madness...
...None mention the parallel between Kennedy's statement "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country," and earlier statements by Mussolini...
...p...
...Mussolini was brought up as a Marxist, and the Nazis were National Socialists...
...Vol...
...Right-wingers, whatever their other faults, are not intolerant in this chilling way...
...Vol...
...Like all ideologues, they believe in a panacea...
...pp...
...2, p. 651) Schlesinger's remarks are even more blatant...
...The I.U...
...REVIEWS In God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr., conservatism's Joe Namath, stigmatized "academic freedom" as regnant liberaldom's camouflage for indoctrinating deludable students to the decorum of collectivism and atheism...
...The Academy must offer alternatives to students, for higher education ideally seeks to cultivate the ability to discriminate between alternatives against a background of established norms...
...Dealing most uniformally and characteristically with FDR, they treat him as the savior of capitalism (hence a conservative) and putatively praise him for strengthening the national government and allowing it to realize its potential...
...704) Surfacing in the 'fifties, "vogueish orthodoxy" deals gingerly with conservatism, denying that apellation to the Right, but rather affixing it to such shifty characters of the Left as Roosevelt...
...The Liberals hail the Constitution for its flexibility in allowing virtually any act the national government chooses to perform (except in national security...
...775) The twenty-nine percent rise in the index during Franklin Roosevelt's third term alone represented "substantial price stability" and constituted a "brilliant success", (p...
...Actually, if he were any farther out in left field he would be in the parking lot...
...516-517) Old-fashioned Americans, whether wealthy or not, bemoaned what they (Continued on Page 10) 4 THE POSSESSED (Continued from Page 2) ing on November 9: "We do not believe it is your right to engage in the war in Viet-nam, and we will engage in civil disobedience to protest it...
...Their doctrines are not vulnerable to argument...
...Such an attitude to freedom is a mark of the ideologue, and leftists are essentially ideologues...
...Blithely ignoring revisionist interpretation, Hicks-Mowry-Burke encapsulates typical emphasis that only Japan wanted war: "At stake was Japanese domination of East Asia as against the traditional American position of respect for the sovereignty of all Asian nations and the equalitarian commercial principle of the open door...
...In The National Experience Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Establishment's nephridium, spews his disgust with the Eisenhower administration by maintaining that the rise in the consumer price index of eleven percent during his two years in office meant that "The administration thus failed to preserve the value of the dollar...
...Janis Stares INTOLERANCE (Continued from Page 3) Freedom itself, though they pay lip-service to it, has a low place in their hierarchy of values...
...Johnson's answer when he was asked how he felt about the behavior of certain leftists in his day...
...Second, I wonder if loftman, Hunter, & Co...
...All remark derisively about Defense Secretary Wilson's statement "What is good for General Motors is good for the country and vice versa...
...and, in any case, such abandonment might simply have encouraged the extremists...
...Never portraying the opponents of the New Deal as responsible statesmen with legitimate alternatives, "vogueish orthodoxy's" textbooks typically characterize the Conservatives as oldfashioned, contemptible fools...
...Some passages from the Hofstadter-Miller-Aaron text typify the textmakers' sentiment...
...Following the suggestion of Louis Hartz that America's traditional ethos has been the liberalism of Locke and not the rigidities of a feudalistic conservatism, the "vogueish orthodoxy" applauds the growth of the welfare state, centralization of power in Washington, and the usurpation of the presidency as the arbiter in all major economic and social disputes in the nation...
...The events of those two days lead me to certain conclusions about political life on this campus...
...administration acted as it had to and disciplined the students so that a small group of people would not be able to force their will upon the rest of the campus...
...One might call it a "vogueish orthodoxy...
...Anthony Lejeune REVIEWS (Continued from Page 4) thought would be the inevitable destruction of American individualism if New Deal policies were continued...
...They feel sorry for Taft, dislike Harding, and are nauseated by Coolidge...
...The administration must stick by its decision...
...The American Nation, Vol...
...In a rationalist, materialist world there can be no value in the freedom to be wrong and to propagate wrong ideas...
...Only a peculiarly insensitive student will fail to note a filament of truth in LS.I.'s allegation...
...The texts bathe the Roosevelts, Wilson, and Truman in a shower of superlatives...
...In their search for the solutions to social problems they are quite willing to enforce conformity...
...which, considering the prevalence of articles by convinced leftists, is fortunate for my blood pressure...
...I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head, to be sure," he replied, "but I was not vexed...
...2, p. 519) Considering Roosevelt's role in gaining American entry into World War II, the texts vary from cautious to giddy approbation...
...Civil disobedience is a time-honored form of protest in this country, yet the forces whose duty it is to preserve order have had to act so that this order was not completely disrupted...
Vol. 1 • November 1967 • No. 3
