David Horowitz, founder of Students for Academic Freedom, editor of conservative website FrontPageMag.com, and author of various liberal and conservative books, released his latest book, Indoctrination U, yesterday. 

Horowitz, a once influential writer and activist for the left, began speaking out for issues of the right in the late 1980’s.  His main focus today has been advocating for the ABOR, an 8 point plan to keep political bias out of the classroom.  This plan in theory is reasonable, professors shouldn’t be able to push their political views onto students, but in practice can be quite dangerous.  With the implementation of the AOBR any student who is ever offended by what their professor says in class can then call for disciplinary action against, including the dismissal of, that professor.  Furthermore, state legislatures have found that colleges and universities in over 20 states already have sufficient policies in place to protect students from infringements on their rights as students. 

But that has not stopped Horowitz from promoting his cause by calling out those he feels “indoctrinate” rather than educate.  First in his 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, which named and mischaracterized courses and liberal professors on campuses across the United States.  Horowitz used poor internet research to make unsupported claims that these professors were indoctrinating students into their leftist activities.  He is now at it again with the release of Indoctrination U yesterday, blaming indoctrination for his inability to have his voice heard.  This time Horowitz skips the lists and uses this book as a public forum to publish stale speeches given at various colleges and universities, and to recycle old attacks on professors and departments.