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♪ ♪ ♪ hello america i am market transient welcome to a special saturday edition of "life, liberty & levin." hopefully you had a wonderful peaceful thanksgiving. they're much should be grateful this year end i'm proud of all of us were sent the leftist packing and reelecting donald trump. we are back on the right path there is still a lot of work to be done. especially complete woke left running our educational system. it's clear american marxists of infiltrator academic institution they are indoctrinating our youth with their propaganda and radical agenda. it's a very serious problem one i am hopeful president trump will be able to reform. in that vein i want you to here for a few of the friends we've had on this year who have been sounding the alarm about the real threat in academia, woke us in. we begin with the great john

ellis distinguished professor emeritus university of california at santa cruz, california, goa. mark: professor jo professor jos english professor emeritus at california santa cruz about that was fun. has written a great book the breakdown of higher education which we have discussed with him in the past he really is a scholar on this subject. chairman of the california association of scholars and wrote a piece in the wall street journal entitled higher ed has become a threat to america. you laid out in the article and i wanted to dig a little deeper with you, professor. so tell us how this has come to be and how this is taking place in these campuses? quick side like people to understand much more than they do is our entire educational system has been captured by radical left, far left sect. this is a complete catastrophe

for the country. something has to be done about it. i want sub society coul cannot t this radical group take over the entire educational system and use it for some purposes. something must be done to stop this. in the article, i listed a number of really catastrophic problems the society is facing, that everyone can see for example crime is out of control old beautiful cities like san francisco made unlivable by our children's test scores in the schools, they are just terrible, disgraced from society really. borders are in complete chaos by design. not my neglect. not by accident. i explained how every single one of these future problems the society faces now can be traced

back to the corruption of higher education system by political radicals. on the campuses the nuclear family that suburban house with two parents, two children on a dog along which everyone else sees as a rather pleasant place in the fulfillment of the american dream. on campus that is viewed with horror. the average radical professor sees that as a source of all evil. that is the place traditional american values are passed on from parents to children. radical activists breaks out transition. the fight between pens and teachers at the moment i tried to lay out in the article all the ways in which very serious problems in the severity of

them, the unexpected of it. physics professor we can also track months of dollars pouring these colleges and universities from foreign governments funding operations. the communist party with confucius institutes. we have people coming into this country and many of them do not leave. they are not assimilating into our society. that has become obvious. these college campuses are almost like little stalinist empires. they demanded money from the taxpayers. billions and billions of dollars on them. if you any kind of oversight or any efforts to fund them, to look at them whether it's congress or state legislatures

the and on and on and on. i was rendered writing plunder and deceit i came across several articles they hire the same faculties they only give grants and bonuses and other forms of merit to people who agree with her point of view. they have this incestuous activity that is going on are chosen from that faculty. without your knowledge tells you as well? used to be the quality control the answer to the most distinguished members of the faculty. they had a license granted by

those faculty to police the quality of what's going on in the classrooms. now that's broken down completely. the radicals are in charge. so now college administrators whose job was poorly controlled they are now in fact quite different. their job now is to protect the radical faculty. there are extensions of the radicals. twenty-one says why don't we have the administrators get a group of the situation? those administrations are creatures of the radicals they are licensed by the radical to protect the radicals. if anyone actually complains about the quality of what is going on, about the fact the radical indoctrination o onset f real education.

there needs to be some kind of oversight. there needs to be something that is done because these entities have completely unraveled and they have spun out of control. they are basically radical left wing indoctrination who hate america and becomi becoming rach critical race theory these comments to their teachings, into their lectuandto their lec. that's going on without any counterpoint of use. as well as a federal government student loans as they would any

other industry they're not going to radicalism for the purpose of undermining and destroying our own nation. can't a congress or the state legislatures at least make an effort to get their hands around what is taking place? what you think of that. quick state legislatures is one of the places you might expect some activity. there is some activity in a few states, north carolina, florida, but not enough. even in a red state stays with s large majorities like idaho there is not much going on. there ought to be a lot more going on. basically what people need to grasp is that money is being given to these campuses for the purpose of education. that money is being taken by radicals and used for something completely different. they are hired to do a certain

job. they want to do a completely different job. that is embezzlement. they're taking money on false pretenses. but the job they want to do is to complete their project of completely transforming the country so that it isn't their r image the radical political image what that would amount to now, god only knows. everyone knows the marxist countries don't work. basically the main motive force of the campus radicals mr. brecht on this society. i don't think they know what they're really trying to achieve in terms of the end goal. but, i think if state legislatures were to wake up to something that is happening is fraudulent, the monies being used fo for a purpose it was not given for then they could simply getting there through a new

administrators it's easy enough or state legislature to say we are insisting on a new president of the campus as a condition of continued funding. once that new presidency and the legislature should lead on it and anyone who is in a classroom who is using that money, the money he's paid as a professor to do instead the work of political activism, political recruiting for his favorite political cause that person should be taken out of the classroom. should not protect someone who is hired to do a job but does something that is not authorized. that in a sense is not doing the job you're paid to do. legislatures could easily say that. but the problem we have is the public attitudes are lagging behind reality. overall people have fond memories of their times on

college campuses they think 30 years ago they had a wonderful time as under gravid at harvard and princeton. they find it very difficult to believe that these institutions could have deteriorated so much. even talking to republicans sometimes people look to me and say i just cannot believe what you're saying to me. i don't blame you for not believing it's almost incredible the degree to which they've gone bad. but we ought to do is more public relations on this issue. the public's got to be brought up to speed. mark: up next the head mucky muck of the great hillsdale college he joins me too reveal what is really happening on campuses across the country. we will be right back.

♪ ♪. mark: welcome back to the special episode of "life, liberty & levin." earlier this year the privilege of speaking with my friend doctor larry is the present hills.college. hearing his insights into the rise of anti-semitism and

marxism on college campuses all over the country. and of course this is destroying education in our country from within. go. >> the president of hills dealt college my favorite college. also a regular sponsor. a long time friend i think i've known larry 30 or 35 years at this point. >> 35. >> 351 of the great intellects on churchill, on the american founding, the declaration of independence. larry run a tight ship. lots of free speech going on hillsdale college a lot of americanism, philosophy, economics, history. you look at these other college campuses that are burning with islam x and replacing the american flag with the palestinian flag, anti-semitism, all the rest of it. this is not happening on your campus. so what is your analysis? >> i am used to these fancy colleges being bad now they are

worse an horrified from their basic functioning has broken down. they run them the way they run them and then they have complete control of them. they have lost entire control of them, why? first of all o they did the firt thing wrong with the college for? it's not a place to go and change the world it's a place to go and understand the world. and so they preach social activism to the students and they are astonished when students take over at war with each other's social activist causes and goodness what would it be like to be a jewish student are one of these campuses right now they are in peril of their lives. they are supposed to be colleagues on these colleges. ours is a christian college and everybody loves them and they love everybody else. and they are students together. they are supposed to learn

together. instead you're going to change the policy of the nation and destroy another nation at a time between when they're 18 and 21 years old and they are not supposed to be taking over the world they are supposed to be learning about the world. if you give up on that there is no purpose for the college. that's why they are so quick to cancel classes what are they doing in there anyway? might as wil as well be out on e barricades. it is shocking to me. i thought these places are rich they are run by people who are in complete agreement with one another. they will be able to manage this. they are putting on a show and let it happen but they will stop it when they want too. they can't stop it. the president of columbia asked the cops to come in, they went in and then she pulled them out and then she asked them back again. she cannot make up her mind.

i am horrified by it. you can see this could happen to our country. this is the weigh way the counts coming to be run that is to say you take these radical principles which don't buy the way protect the rights of anyone. they protect the power of some. they have converted education into an exercise in power on herhere's a simple thing. you have to be able to surrender your opinion and order to learn because your opinion is always provisional. if a kid comes here it's not easy to get into hills dealt college he says i have a conservative i want to come to hillsdale and i say what's conservative? there's a 17, 18 years old they do not know. also the first thing to know about the college is you are going to have to learn the meaning of the words that you use. despite that fight that's broken out is about the middle east.

the modern middle east that history in regards to israel start in the late 19th century. israel comes to be after the audubon empire falls in the first world war at the end of the first world war. the british made some promises to several countries if you help us israel is one of those in many arab countries. israel comes from the same set of facts very quickly if you have professors they become tenured who hate america or islam us who are marxist, fascist, whatever they are but they are un-american. and the higher each other in the process they become administrators in the same school. isn't that the poison that's taking place here that these institutions are being destroyed from within? >> takes marxism. what is that idea? that idea is we should use the

human will to remake the world. that is not an exercise in learning. that means they are teaching these kids. the first thing they teach them as everyone thing in the past is bad but we can remake everything anew. you are not inviting them to think or to study and sure enough these elite colleges there are some great professors they are very smart. not great professors are increasingly uncomfortable this awokawoken is an radical doctris remember these doctrines amount to the claim that you can only know if you make. you could n cannot look up and . judaism does not work and that kind of world because judaism thanks there is this almighty god. and we have this history with him. we have the hard duty of being

chosen by him that we have carried a message for the world all our lives. that is not something you can remake. and marx was a jew and he hated judaism. these doctrines alton militate against anything eternal. but remember, a college kid is in the last stage growing up they take four years and they get knowledge before they start their work. they need knowledge of things that last. not the cause of the day. it ruins them. because first of all you have to submit yourself everybody does every time you learn something i can tell you i have known mark levin for 400 years. and mark levin is a humble man and some important respects despite his obvious aggressiveness.

he takes care. he thanks he ought to know hume's to read and write serious books that is an act of aggression sure. also an act of obedience. i had a kid say to me one time if i come to hillsdale we respect my opinion and i said yeah we don't care about that very much. everybody laughed at him in the room and he said isaac we respect mine? you don't even know what it is. the purpose of college is to turn an opinion into knowledge you can look at the demonstrators and these cannot function they are not about that task anymore they have abandoned them then i feel bad of course i feel bad for the jewish students. i feel bad for these demonstrators because they are

young people and have been radicalized and could not know very much they are never going to learn. they have been taught they don't need to know. their natural interest in knowing the truth has been suppressed through doctrines. they have been turned into violent people. that is what we are paying for in that is what is invading our society all over the place. >> when we return christopher joines meet to discuss the evils of awoken is him in his book america's culture revolution. we will be right back. do your dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye: too much tear evaporation. for relief that's ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪

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son-in-law. i am jon scott and now back to "life, liberty & levin." >> welcome back america. on this thanksgiving weekend we are looking back at some of the special guest this year who have been beating the warning and jerome about the deterioration of her academic institutions. our friend is an expert on how the left relentlessly tries to tighten the vise clamp on american culture, go. >> the great christopher with us manhattan institute senior fellow. city journal contributing editor. this man has been fighting i would say for decades to draw america's attention to crt how the radical left are destroying our culture. now he has put in a fabulous

book america's culture revolution conquered everything. really terrific book. let me ask you a question. they controlled the culture now, don't they? >> they do this is part of the long skinlong-standing campaigne left. in the late 60s and early 70s the radical left that they can violently overthrow the u.s. government. that certainly collapsed in the next in administration. then they devised a new plan the long march of the institutions taking control of all of our elite commercial production from the inside and that is exactly what we have done. this book traces that from that beginnings, the origins of the late 1960s all the way to the explosion of th the revelation f these trends during george floyd. it's not by accident conservatives feel besieged all of these institutions. part of a plan something i worked t expose the book.

mark: this a plan was really developed by italian communists, by german communists that had an enormous influence on our communists. our universities and colleges that you point out here. the plan was to not violently overthrow americorps any democracy even though that would be great if you could tell me if i am wrong they say that people are not going to rise up and overthrow this place. lennon said it had to be top down. these others said we've got to calm their cultural institutions. isn't that exactly what they doing? >> in fact of the 1970s the top neo- marxist philosopher wrote explicitly the working-class and middle-class in the united states was not just non- revolutionary but anti- revolutionary. meeting most middle-class americans of working-class americans were happy with the country. happy with its principles. they said we need to lead in elite revolution that unites intellectuals on campuses to put

pressure into ways on the american public. to launder these radical ideas through the institutions. these are explicitly anti- american. they are explicitly anti- capitalists. in some cases they have a racial dialect that's explicitly antiwhite they see this as a potential rallying cry for revolutionary movement. when you see you realize is just a cycle repeating on are no surprises. no matter where it comes from. mark: i tell her love about your book you get amazon.com, america's. i had people come up to me, how did we lose our livelihood? how did we lose women's sports?

you explain it. how did we lose it all? >> the education system is key. marxist and radicals all over the world no you have to control the transmission of values the transmission of values in a large public school system like we have in the united states comes in the public school classrooms. they were very explicit. i hundred neo- marxist individuals working in the field of education and the universities and then they spread their ideas k-12 bureaucracy. they have done brilliantly is force those ideas through diversity equity and inclusion close programs to the point now what i have discovered is the marxist revolutionary literature of the black panther party and underground is exactly the same to soften the language as many of the k-12 curricula and states like california, washington,

oregon and illinois. we see this remarkable traveling. to your child's kindergarten classroom. you need to know the history. you need to know where comes from you need to see the language if you want to get this out of the classroom and if you want to re- instill american principles in america's public education. mark: next when my great here is one of america's most brilliant minds ever, joins us to discuss the leftist propaganda being fed to our children and government schools. will be right back

mark: welcome back america. a short while ago i spoke to one of the country's best ever thinkers and scholars. we delved into the marxist

propaganda poisoning our schoolchildren across america the great lengths parents are taking to take a stop to this nonsense go. >> i want to read for the audience obviously you wrote it so you will know the very end of your book in relation to the question i ended the last segment and then i like you to follow up if you don't mind. those of us were not followers t followers of the social justice vision at a minimum we can to the rhetoric of life, the great supreme court justice oliver wendell holmes said think things and not words today it is especially important to get facts rather than catchwords. these include not only current facts but also the vast array of facts about what others have done in the past both the successes and the failures. i take that to mean you've got to really work hard to cut out

the static, the propaganda, all of what academia for the most part is trying to indoctrinate you with and think for your se self, begin to educate yourself as a citizen who loves this country and wanted to remain free pre-that's a good starting place is that about right? >> absolutely. and above all you have to concentrate on facts which again, things that are suppressed the rhetoric rules the roost in too many places it's really pitiful wa the way people sacrificing so much money to send their children to expensive schools to get very cheap propaganda. one of the sad things i encountered in doing research for this was how many people on the left do not answer arguments with counter arguments but with homonym, attributing bad things to the people who disagree with them but never answering what

they have to say. this whole thing are some the things i bring out in the book there is any number of asian groups of people from china, india, japan, whatever. and the white population of the united states. if you get to people from india their income exactly the same. and yet people go around talking about the white supremacy. so many other things are widely attributed to race you find people that go into at their other things. it is the one thing to be against racist. it's another thing to exaggerate

what they can do. you might think about what they cannot do. they cannot stop 9 million black people from having higher than white people they cannot stop thousands of black people from having assets over a million dollars. cannot stop blocks fr blacks frg billionaires. oprah winfrey and others have been but they could not stop military it is all or becoming president of the united states. yet we go on as if we were a hundred years ago. i think the racist at this point cannot do one have to damage the teachers unions are doing by making the schools, places for teachers to have ironclad job security. invert turning them into propaganda centers that do not

teach the kids math and english. a black kid who graduates from high school with a mastery of mathematics and the english language there is a practicallyy nothing that can stop it. except the propaganda he has been fed in the schools all of these years. >> the book is fantastic social justice fallacies. it comes out tuesday you get your copy on amazon.com every major bookstore will have it as well. do we have an incompetent ruling class of elites or an ideologically driven ruling class of elites or both? >> both. primarily people enormously impressed with themselves because they have a high iq's and phd's after their names. in some of the great tragedies and horrors of the 20th century were promoted by those very kinds of people.

the holocaust would clearly qualify for that in that category. the progressive era people were promoting genocide. one of the books written by one of them was it translated into german hitler called it his bible. most people do not seem to realize this is an idea that was a predominate among the intellectuals around the time of world war i. and in later years the facts finally came out completely undermine all the things they had said. but by that time is too late. mark: an entire eugenics movement around the left as you put the whole progressive era. i guess the thinking was were going to perfect society we have to perfect human beings. and i feel it this way apart in eugenics is still with that we are dealing with. people don't come it's very messy democracy.

they seek to crush a part i will leave you with the final word. >> well, that's one of many things that caused me too say as they did in the book, stupid people can create problems. it's in brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. that's the history of the 20th century. mark: are deafly an exception to that social justice fallacies is the book. you can order your copies on amazon.com. after the break, one great mind and hero after another. victor davis hanson and his brilliant insights. we will be right back.

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♪ ♪. mark: welcome back america. victor davis hanson called america's wisemen, warns us of our need to take back civic education in our country and pry it from the hands of the radical left to really want our children to hate our country. take a look. we see what's going on on our streets and colleges and universities. really un- americanism, supporting terrorist organizations, marxist organizations, isn't it all part

of the same the open borders, academia, the democrat party and so forth? >> yes i think the common theme is it is a quality of resultant mandated government equality and the hatred of people who are successful or try to work hard and they follow customs and traditions of the united states. they do not like those people. i don't think they realize we are the only multiracial democracy in history that is ever worked. india is trying it, brazil is trying it with. mixed results. it's a very fragile idea. to make it work you have to have everybody except a common culture. they are superficial appearance has to be incidental not essential to who you are. and i keep saying diversity, diversity, diversity but historically there is no society that successful been diverse. iraq has not work, or wando hasn't worked, we have got to

junk this whole idea is back unity, unity, unity and say our individual differences are incidental compared to are calm and american we've got to go back to civic education. i don't think people died on iwo jima or shiloh for what this dream of what america is becoming. that was not the purpose of all these to prior generations. we got to stop defaming the dead and suggesting our generation and infinite wisdom and morality could pass a judgment with our current morality on people who really built the country in the past to defame them like we do. it's really a moral to do that part yet that is institutionalized in her colleges and schools. mark: you know, when i look at some of the leading voices against this country, i think to myself what have you ever contributed to this country? what have you ever done for this country?

you are ideologues who are trying to destroy what men and women and ancestors have built. it is a new thing with what this generation is doing, no? >> absolutely. i live in california and this generation is so self-righteous. i say to myself what have you done? have you improve the university of california system that is built by her grandparents? have you added to the california water project how ha is high-spd rail going now do we why do we now have 14% income tax rate on the right look at the state is it cleaner? does it have a better law enforcement, better education? the air answer is no. yet they defend the prior educations that are now dead and cannot answer back. a look at history as a melodrama there's going to be an oppressor, and oppressed, not tragedy. not people if they had to go on the oregon trail without water and dealing with disease and horses and wagons to get to oregon or california, like our pioneer great-grandparents said they would not make it.

and yet they are so self righteous completely unaware at some future generation is going to look back at us and say it you have millions of homeless people defecate on the sidewalk. you have over a million abortions a year you have institutionalized anti-semitism in your so-called great universities. shame on that generation. we arwe're going to be judged py harshly it's wholly pretty ironic but it's well deserved. >> your great area of expertise is more ancient history i would argue. you look at athens, you look at rome and yet they did not survive. the romans survived as a republic for what 500 years? we are not even at 300 years how are we doing compared to rome? >> we're doing pretty well until two or three generations ago. they get complacent they do not echo the values or maintain or embody the values that make them

great when they were poor and struggling. they get complacent and affluence and leisure.birth and want is what destroy civilization. we need to get back to the very basics. we need to say to ourselves how did they do this in 1850 , 20 , 60? what were the ingredients? hard work, equality of opportunity not resolve it. they got to the point where race was not a factor anymore and admissions were hiring they were meritocratic they told people all over the world come to the united states ... for liberty and freedom are at a higher standard than mandated quality. we can do it would just have to remember who we were. >> of the return of final word to share with you on this weekend after thanksgiving. we will be right back. i'm yael eckstein of the international fellowship of christians and jews, and this hanukkah holiday is of urgent importance. this is our last chance to help thousands of

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the key to education parents and grandparents, make sure your children and grandchildren or through conversations with you, books you recommend to them and you monitoring their teachers, the classrooms, the work they are being given you are the key. i learned most of what i know outside the education institutions of bureaucracy. that's not to say they are all bad but they weren't good enough for me. children mean everything, grandchildren mean everything so it's key you have a primary principle role in what going on in here. i'll see you tomorrow night on life, liberty and levin. ♪ ♪