The Heterodoxy Handbook: How to Survive the PC Campus

By David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Inc Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Book Overview

A collection of the most worthy pieces from Heterodoxy, an irreverent monthly journal combating the folly of political correctness. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895267314
• ISBN13: 9780895267313
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fighting PC Where You See It.

I had never heard of the magazine, Heterodoxy, when it was still operational, but now, in retrospect, I wish I would have subscribed to it. This is a collection of their best of and the essays are, for the most part, very cranial and introspective. I enjoyed almost all of them. The subsection, The Academic Zoo, excoriates radical feminism and the politicization of the fields of literary criticism and archaeology. We also see what political correctness has done to the navy, the methodist church, and the big gray enchilada, The New York Times. The writing is highly spirited and entertaining in my opinion. You'll enjoy it.

Horrifyingly hilarious

Former radicals Horowitz and Collier expose the Left again. This collection of vignettes from campuses (and other areas) across the nation are quite humorous -- and at the same time scary. McCarthyism alive and well? Sure is -- at your local university. Have kids about to enter college? Read this first, and then examine what classes your child takes along with his/her reading materials and syllabi. Oh, and make sure to read the letters section at the end of the book, especially those from university professors. These guys and gals are supposed to be the epitomy of "tolerant?"

Not Just PC, Not Just the Campus

This collection of materials (mostly essays, but also some parodies and, delightfully, readers' letters) from Heterodoxy is horrifying and invigorating. "These people are crazy," I kept telling myself as I read the book. "They need to be institutionalized."But they're not crazy. They're mobilized, they're motivated, and they're out to get you. Okay, maybe not YOU, specifically...not yet. The essays in this collection reveal leftist individuals and organizations at work, putting their agenda -- the consolidation of their own power by the destruction of existing American institutions -- into action.The title is mystifying. Many of the essays contained in this volume relate to American universities (one of the first redoubts to be siezed by the Raving Left). Others, though, deal with issues and incidents as diverse as fascist feminism's assault on the US military and a social workers' crusade against the "patriarchal" family.Still, give it to your college-bound friend or relative. Think of it as inoculation.

Horowitz strikes again

Horowitz takes the current PC climate on college campuses to task. Read this book and learn about the mentality that shaped the Clinton administration, and how the same mentality threatens free speech in the future. This book should be required reading for every college freshman,oops, freshperson.

Thought Police on Campus

A perfect companion to Orwell's "1984". Horowitz does an admirable job of detailing the ever present dangers from modern day "thought police" at our institutions of higher learning. Recommended reading for all incoming freshmen.