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Muckraking director Evan Coyne Maloney ambushes yet another university administrator, insidiously demanding accountability<\/p><\/div>\n
“Othering” Conservatives<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n[xrr rating=4\/5]<\/p>\n
Indoctrinate U.<\/em>\u00a0Featuring Ahmad al-Qoloushi, Jay Bergman, Michael Berube, Kelly Coyne, Laura Freberg, Steve Hinkle, Noel Ignatiev, Robert Jervis, K.C. Johnson, Sukhmani Singh Khalsa, Evan Coyne Maloney, John McWhorter, Michael Munger, Daniel Pipes, Glenn Reynolds, Stanley Rothman, Carol Swain, Mason Weaver, Vanessa Wiseman, and Mary Yoder. Camerawork by Oleg Atbashian, Alexandra Barker, Stuart Browning, Jill Butterfield, Laura Cauley, Jared Lapidus, Evan Coyne Maloney, and Mark Xue. Designed and edited by Chandler Tuttle. Editing and music by Blaine Greenberg. Written and directed by Evan Coyne Maloney. (Moving Picture Institute\/On the Fence Films, 2007, color, 87 minutes. MPAA rating: not rated.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nAs I don\u2019t equate a movie\u2019s budget with its worth, please don\u2019t take it as a sobriquet that young director Evan Coyne Maloney\u2019s recent documentary\u00a0Indoctrinate U<\/em>\u00a0has a low-budget feel to it. The entry-level graphics and obviously shoestring budget somehow lend a sense of authenticity to this excellent slam at the stifling atmosphere of Political Correctness, which has obscured free inquiry and expression on America\u2019s college campuses in recent decades. As Maloney goes from campus to campus searching for just\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0administrator who\u2019ll speak to him and his camera operator, his cordial, easygoing demeanor and youthful appearance give the viewer the impression that Maloney himself is not too far removed from his own school days.<\/p>\nThis documentary, co-produced under the aegis of Thor Halvorssen\u2019s maverick Moving Picture Institute\u2014a pro\u2013free market, nonprofit filmmaking organization\u2014is in fact an expanded version of Maloney\u2019s 2004 short documentary\u00a0Brainwashing 101.\u00a0<\/em>His expos\u00e9 of the outrageous censorship, character assassination, unsolicited propagandizing, and administrative cowardice that typify today\u2019s campus environment left me with one overwhelming thought: \u201cSo, what else is new?\u201d<\/p>\nThe kinds of examples Maloney gives to show the radical left\u2019s outright arrogance in silencing any opposition to its academic monopoly could have been found in any of numerous books that have been published on the topic during the PC decade, such asTenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education\u00a0<\/em>(1990) by Roger Kimball,\u00a0Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus<\/em>\u00a0(1998) by Dinesh D\u2019Souza, and\u00a0The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America\u2019s Campuses<\/em>(1999) by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate. Adults of my generation, who attended college during the late 1980s and early 90s\u2014when the term \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d became commonly used\u2014are even looking upon the 1994 comedy\u00a0PCU\u00a0<\/em>with a nostalgic eye. With the era of PC gone the way of Warrant and Nirvana, what\u2019s Maloney\u2019s beef, anyhow?<\/p>\nWell, for one, on America\u2019s college campuses, political correctness hasn\u2019t gone away, it\u2019s only gotten worse. In fact, the Duke University lacrosse team \u201crape\u201d case of 2006-07 is the most widely publicized instance of PC run amok, given national media coverage for a solid thirteen months. Three team members were accused by black stripper Crystal Gail Mangum of raping her at a party in March 2006. Throughout the coverage, the accuser was repeatedly referred to in the media as \u201cthe victim.\u201d Further, Durham County North Carolina district attorney Mike Nifong encouraged a kangaroo court atmosphere and egged on the press with unsubstantiated accusations, creating a hostile environment that effectively tried the defendants in the national media. As the facts of the students\u2019 innocence became public, Nifong was eventually disbarred for \u201cdishonesty, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naturally, one would think, the students would have gotten moral support at their campus. Nope. In fact, eighty-eight faculty members at Duke posted a statement in\u00a0The Chronicle<\/em>, an independent Duke student newspaper, blaming the \u201crape\u201d on the rampant white racism alleged to exist at Duke, which was creating a \u201csocial disaster.\u201d What are the custodians of knowledge doing writing inflammatory remarks that sound as if they came straight from some crackpot\u2019s blog rant?<\/p>\nAmericans were shocked at such prejudicial remarks when they were exposed on such cable news programs as\u00a0The O\u2019Reilly Factor<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Glenn Beck Live.<\/em>\u00a0The suspension of the students\u2019 presumption of innocence, simply because they were white males, brought the Kafkaesque nature of political correctness into America\u2019s living rooms. For the first time, the secretive, arbitrary, and vicious nature of the campus thought police became front-page headline news. But, watching\u00a0Indoctrinate U<\/em>, viewers can see firsthand that the dogma of \u201cwhite male guilt\u201d was endemic to American universities long before the Duke lacrosse case.<\/p>\nJust take, for example, the bizarre view of (white male) Noel Ignatiev, a history professor at the Massachusetts School of Art: \u201cWhiteness is an identity that arises entirely out of oppression. . . . Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.\u201d Director Mahoney points out that such expressions are not controversial on America\u2019s college campuses today. In fact, they are\u00a0de rigueur<\/em>.<\/p>\nWhat kind of expression, then,\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0controversial? In one interview after another, students and faculty relate personal testimony that will make the hair stand up on the heads of anyone concerned about the future of the First Amendment.<\/p>\nOne Cal Poly student, Steve Hinkle, racked up over $40,000 in legal fees defending himself after he posted a flyer for a speaker that his College Republicans were sponsoring. The title of the speech was \u201cIt\u2019s Okay to Leave the Plantation,\u201d also the name of guest speaker Mason Weaver\u2019s book. When a student claimed offense\u2014even though Weaver, a free-market conservative, was black himself\u2014Hinkle was nonetheless subjected to months of pressure from the administration to apologize, even to seek psychiatric counseling for his transgression. He refused to back down, and all the charges were eventually dropped.<\/p>\n
A professor of Hinkle\u2019s at Cal Poly, Laura Freberg, was stripped of her chair in the psychology department when another professor discovered that she was a registered Republican. Despite receiving the highest student evaluations in her department, fellow professors and members of the administration harassed and attempted to intimidate her into quitting, but she refused. \u201cOne colleague told me, \u2018We would have never hired you had we known you were a Republican,\u2019\u201d Freberg says.<\/p>\n
At the University of Tennessee, five white frat brothers dressed in blackface as the R&B group \u201cThe Jackson 5ive,\u201d and as a result their fraternity was suspended by the administration. But when conservative student Sukhmani Singh Khalsa wrote a letter to the editor of the campus newspaper, accusing the school\u2019s issues committee of bias in inviting only liberals to speak before the student body, an enraged liberal student on the issues committee fired off an email to fellow committee members about Singh: \u201cThe next time you see one of these ragheads, shoot them in the fucking face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Singh is a Sikh, not a Muslim (as the ignorant student implied), many U.T. students were still shocked that the email, verging on a death threat, earned its writer little more than a slap on the wrist. What did Singh take away from the unpleasant incident? \u201cHate speech is wrong\u2014against\u00a0certain people.<\/em>\u201d Obviously, if Sikh or Muslim students are conservative, they need not apply for victim status, even when they are the victims of thinly veiled threats of violence.<\/p>\nThough African Americans are among the ostensible beneficiaries of policies that label certain views as \u201chate speech,\u201d these policies don\u2019t go so far as one would think. Just ask former U.C. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter. \u201cThe essence of black \u2018authenticity\u2019 is to be aggrieved,\u201d he says. \u201cOnce you assert that you\u2019re not particularly aggrieved, then people start wondering whether you\u2019re black at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
And only in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of political correctness is it possible for three interviewees named Bergman, Freberg, and Wiseman to be constantly smeared as \u201cNazis,\u201d \u201cfascists,\u201d \u201cHitler,\u201d and \u201cHitler Youth,\u201d merely for holding conservative beliefs that diverge from the campus mainstream.<\/p>\n
Decades ago, such open intimidation and bullying would have been damned for their \u201cchilling effect.\u201d Today, however, \u201cspeech codes\u201d are enforced in the name of \u201ctolerance\u201d and \u201cdiversity.\u201d David French, former president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), reports that of 350 colleges and universities surveyed, 62 percent had substantial restrictions and 29 percent had potential restrictions on free speech. Although most colleges defined \u201chate speech\u201d as merely offensive, one college prohibited speech that \u201cinjured a student\u2019s self-esteem.\u201d Only on 9 percent of campuses did unfettered speech reign,\u00a0sans<\/em>\u00a0speech codes.<\/p>\nThe product of this chilling effect is uniformity of thought and fear of sticking one\u2019s neck out. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia, reports on the atmosphere in his lecture hall: \u201cI often give [my students] a statement in quotation marks and ask them to agree or disagree. I\u2019ve noticed that most of them will agree with what I put in quotes. There\u2019s something wrong here.\u201d Similarly, Professor Freberg comments about one of the show trials she was forced to endure alone, while colleagues lent her this spineless version of \u201cmoral support\u201d: \u201cI really support what you\u2019re doing, but for God\u2019s sake, don\u2019t tell anyone, or I\u2019m dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Mahoney turns the camera on a gathering of \u201caggrieved\u201d students, the viewer can witness the damage that three decades of \u201cself-esteem\u201d baby-talk has visited upon America\u2019s schoolchildren. At a demonstration against an \u201caffirmative action bake sale,\u201d staged tongue-in-cheek by some conservative students at Columbia University, whiny protestors are beside themselves as to how such an event could be permitted. One girl is even on the edge of tears, but nearly all the students (dressed in the latest Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister designer wear) rail against \u201cracist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, capitalist America.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, where are the administrators, the deans, and college presidents who should be protecting the rights of\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0students to openly and peaceably express themselves? They\u2019re hiding from director Evan Maloney. Despite sending out \u201chundred of emails\u201d to campus officials, not one granted Maloney\u2019s requests for an onscreen interview. Much of the movie\u2019s hilarity consists of a cordial but inquisitive Maloney posing questions to humorless female officials in rumpled outfits and petulant male administrators in cable-knit vests. At one campus after another, these uptight academes call campus security on Maloney, who then politely packs up his crew and equipment and moves on.<\/p>\nIn a mere eighty-seven minutes, Maloney has assembled a coherent narrative from interviews with over two dozen subjects in this masterful depiction of PC\u2019s rampant and systematic attack on free thought. \u201cThe marketplace of ideas has been reduced to just that,\u201d he observes\u2014\u201can\u00a0idea<\/em>.\u201d His documentary\u2019s message is clear: that by hiding one\u2019s views and failing to fight for right to express them, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the \u201csilent majority\u201d is silenced for good.<\/p>\nRobert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 “Othering” Conservatives [xrr rating=4\/5] Indoctrinate U.\u00a0Featuring Ahmad al-Qoloushi, Jay Bergman, Michael Berube, Kelly Coyne, Laura Freberg, Steve Hinkle, Noel Ignatiev, Robert Jervis, K.C. Johnson, Sukhmani Singh Khalsa, Evan Coyne Maloney, John McWhorter, Michael Munger, Daniel Pipes, Glenn Reynolds, Stanley Rothman, Carol Swain, Mason Weaver, Vanessa Wiseman, and Mary Yoder. Camerawork by Oleg Atbashian, Alexandra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries","category-independent-films","category-mreview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n As I don\u2019t equate a movie\u2019s budget with its worth, please don\u2019t take it as a sobriquet that young director Evan Coyne Maloney\u2019s recent documentary\u00a0Indoctrinate U<\/em>\u00a0has a low-budget feel to it. The entry-level graphics and obviously shoestring budget somehow lend a sense of authenticity to this excellent slam at the stifling atmosphere of Political Correctness, which has obscured free inquiry and expression on America\u2019s college campuses in recent decades. As Maloney goes from campus to campus searching for just\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0administrator who\u2019ll speak to him and his camera operator, his cordial, easygoing demeanor and youthful appearance give the viewer the impression that Maloney himself is not too far removed from his own school days.<\/p>\n This documentary, co-produced under the aegis of Thor Halvorssen\u2019s maverick Moving Picture Institute\u2014a pro\u2013free market, nonprofit filmmaking organization\u2014is in fact an expanded version of Maloney\u2019s 2004 short documentary\u00a0Brainwashing 101.\u00a0<\/em>His expos\u00e9 of the outrageous censorship, character assassination, unsolicited propagandizing, and administrative cowardice that typify today\u2019s campus environment left me with one overwhelming thought: \u201cSo, what else is new?\u201d<\/p>\n The kinds of examples Maloney gives to show the radical left\u2019s outright arrogance in silencing any opposition to its academic monopoly could have been found in any of numerous books that have been published on the topic during the PC decade, such asTenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education\u00a0<\/em>(1990) by Roger Kimball,\u00a0Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus<\/em>\u00a0(1998) by Dinesh D\u2019Souza, and\u00a0The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America\u2019s Campuses<\/em>(1999) by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate. Adults of my generation, who attended college during the late 1980s and early 90s\u2014when the term \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d became commonly used\u2014are even looking upon the 1994 comedy\u00a0PCU\u00a0<\/em>with a nostalgic eye. With the era of PC gone the way of Warrant and Nirvana, what\u2019s Maloney\u2019s beef, anyhow?<\/p>\n Well, for one, on America\u2019s college campuses, political correctness hasn\u2019t gone away, it\u2019s only gotten worse. In fact, the Duke University lacrosse team \u201crape\u201d case of 2006-07 is the most widely publicized instance of PC run amok, given national media coverage for a solid thirteen months. Three team members were accused by black stripper Crystal Gail Mangum of raping her at a party in March 2006. Throughout the coverage, the accuser was repeatedly referred to in the media as \u201cthe victim.\u201d Further, Durham County North Carolina district attorney Mike Nifong encouraged a kangaroo court atmosphere and egged on the press with unsubstantiated accusations, creating a hostile environment that effectively tried the defendants in the national media. As the facts of the students\u2019 innocence became public, Nifong was eventually disbarred for \u201cdishonesty, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation.\u201d<\/p>\n Naturally, one would think, the students would have gotten moral support at their campus. Nope. In fact, eighty-eight faculty members at Duke posted a statement in\u00a0The Chronicle<\/em>, an independent Duke student newspaper, blaming the \u201crape\u201d on the rampant white racism alleged to exist at Duke, which was creating a \u201csocial disaster.\u201d What are the custodians of knowledge doing writing inflammatory remarks that sound as if they came straight from some crackpot\u2019s blog rant?<\/p>\n Americans were shocked at such prejudicial remarks when they were exposed on such cable news programs as\u00a0The O\u2019Reilly Factor<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Glenn Beck Live.<\/em>\u00a0The suspension of the students\u2019 presumption of innocence, simply because they were white males, brought the Kafkaesque nature of political correctness into America\u2019s living rooms. For the first time, the secretive, arbitrary, and vicious nature of the campus thought police became front-page headline news. But, watching\u00a0Indoctrinate U<\/em>, viewers can see firsthand that the dogma of \u201cwhite male guilt\u201d was endemic to American universities long before the Duke lacrosse case.<\/p>\n Just take, for example, the bizarre view of (white male) Noel Ignatiev, a history professor at the Massachusetts School of Art: \u201cWhiteness is an identity that arises entirely out of oppression. . . . Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.\u201d Director Mahoney points out that such expressions are not controversial on America\u2019s college campuses today. In fact, they are\u00a0de rigueur<\/em>.<\/p>\n What kind of expression, then,\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0controversial? In one interview after another, students and faculty relate personal testimony that will make the hair stand up on the heads of anyone concerned about the future of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n One Cal Poly student, Steve Hinkle, racked up over $40,000 in legal fees defending himself after he posted a flyer for a speaker that his College Republicans were sponsoring. The title of the speech was \u201cIt\u2019s Okay to Leave the Plantation,\u201d also the name of guest speaker Mason Weaver\u2019s book. When a student claimed offense\u2014even though Weaver, a free-market conservative, was black himself\u2014Hinkle was nonetheless subjected to months of pressure from the administration to apologize, even to seek psychiatric counseling for his transgression. He refused to back down, and all the charges were eventually dropped.<\/p>\n A professor of Hinkle\u2019s at Cal Poly, Laura Freberg, was stripped of her chair in the psychology department when another professor discovered that she was a registered Republican. Despite receiving the highest student evaluations in her department, fellow professors and members of the administration harassed and attempted to intimidate her into quitting, but she refused. \u201cOne colleague told me, \u2018We would have never hired you had we known you were a Republican,\u2019\u201d Freberg says.<\/p>\n At the University of Tennessee, five white frat brothers dressed in blackface as the R&B group \u201cThe Jackson 5ive,\u201d and as a result their fraternity was suspended by the administration. But when conservative student Sukhmani Singh Khalsa wrote a letter to the editor of the campus newspaper, accusing the school\u2019s issues committee of bias in inviting only liberals to speak before the student body, an enraged liberal student on the issues committee fired off an email to fellow committee members about Singh: \u201cThe next time you see one of these ragheads, shoot them in the fucking face.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Singh is a Sikh, not a Muslim (as the ignorant student implied), many U.T. students were still shocked that the email, verging on a death threat, earned its writer little more than a slap on the wrist. What did Singh take away from the unpleasant incident? \u201cHate speech is wrong\u2014against\u00a0certain people.<\/em>\u201d Obviously, if Sikh or Muslim students are conservative, they need not apply for victim status, even when they are the victims of thinly veiled threats of violence.<\/p>\n Though African Americans are among the ostensible beneficiaries of policies that label certain views as \u201chate speech,\u201d these policies don\u2019t go so far as one would think. Just ask former U.C. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter. \u201cThe essence of black \u2018authenticity\u2019 is to be aggrieved,\u201d he says. \u201cOnce you assert that you\u2019re not particularly aggrieved, then people start wondering whether you\u2019re black at all.\u201d<\/p>\n And only in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of political correctness is it possible for three interviewees named Bergman, Freberg, and Wiseman to be constantly smeared as \u201cNazis,\u201d \u201cfascists,\u201d \u201cHitler,\u201d and \u201cHitler Youth,\u201d merely for holding conservative beliefs that diverge from the campus mainstream.<\/p>\n Decades ago, such open intimidation and bullying would have been damned for their \u201cchilling effect.\u201d Today, however, \u201cspeech codes\u201d are enforced in the name of \u201ctolerance\u201d and \u201cdiversity.\u201d David French, former president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), reports that of 350 colleges and universities surveyed, 62 percent had substantial restrictions and 29 percent had potential restrictions on free speech. Although most colleges defined \u201chate speech\u201d as merely offensive, one college prohibited speech that \u201cinjured a student\u2019s self-esteem.\u201d Only on 9 percent of campuses did unfettered speech reign,\u00a0sans<\/em>\u00a0speech codes.<\/p>\n The product of this chilling effect is uniformity of thought and fear of sticking one\u2019s neck out. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia, reports on the atmosphere in his lecture hall: \u201cI often give [my students] a statement in quotation marks and ask them to agree or disagree. I\u2019ve noticed that most of them will agree with what I put in quotes. There\u2019s something wrong here.\u201d Similarly, Professor Freberg comments about one of the show trials she was forced to endure alone, while colleagues lent her this spineless version of \u201cmoral support\u201d: \u201cI really support what you\u2019re doing, but for God\u2019s sake, don\u2019t tell anyone, or I\u2019m dead.\u201d<\/p>\n When Mahoney turns the camera on a gathering of \u201caggrieved\u201d students, the viewer can witness the damage that three decades of \u201cself-esteem\u201d baby-talk has visited upon America\u2019s schoolchildren. At a demonstration against an \u201caffirmative action bake sale,\u201d staged tongue-in-cheek by some conservative students at Columbia University, whiny protestors are beside themselves as to how such an event could be permitted. One girl is even on the edge of tears, but nearly all the students (dressed in the latest Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister designer wear) rail against \u201cracist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, capitalist America.\u201d<\/p>\n So, where are the administrators, the deans, and college presidents who should be protecting the rights of\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0students to openly and peaceably express themselves? They\u2019re hiding from director Evan Maloney. Despite sending out \u201chundred of emails\u201d to campus officials, not one granted Maloney\u2019s requests for an onscreen interview. Much of the movie\u2019s hilarity consists of a cordial but inquisitive Maloney posing questions to humorless female officials in rumpled outfits and petulant male administrators in cable-knit vests. At one campus after another, these uptight academes call campus security on Maloney, who then politely packs up his crew and equipment and moves on.<\/p>\n In a mere eighty-seven minutes, Maloney has assembled a coherent narrative from interviews with over two dozen subjects in this masterful depiction of PC\u2019s rampant and systematic attack on free thought. \u201cThe marketplace of ideas has been reduced to just that,\u201d he observes\u2014\u201can\u00a0idea<\/em>.\u201d His documentary\u2019s message is clear: that by hiding one\u2019s views and failing to fight for right to express them, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the \u201csilent majority\u201d is silenced for good.<\/p>\n Robert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 “Othering” Conservatives [xrr rating=4\/5] Indoctrinate U.\u00a0Featuring Ahmad al-Qoloushi, Jay Bergman, Michael Berube, Kelly Coyne, Laura Freberg, Steve Hinkle, Noel Ignatiev, Robert Jervis, K.C. Johnson, Sukhmani Singh Khalsa, Evan Coyne Maloney, John McWhorter, Michael Munger, Daniel Pipes, Glenn Reynolds, Stanley Rothman, Carol Swain, Mason Weaver, Vanessa Wiseman, and Mary Yoder. 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