Campus Conservatives Battle Quacks

Attention Conservative College Students, Parents and Grandparents!

Yalie Daniel Gelertner, son of NRO contributor David, has started a blog to connect conservative students on college campuses. Here is his initial announcement, via Powerline:

The renaissance of American culture will be the work of conservative students now on college campuses. We have seen religion in America grow weak and we want to make it strong again. We have seen Americans forget the meaning of good and evil, and of man and woman; we want to remind them. We have seen teachers politicize literature, art, and history; we want to restore art for art’s sake, and for the sake of truth and beauty – not for politics or "social justice." We want history professors to teach us the truth – not feminism, multiculturalism, or the latest revisionist fads.

There are some of us on every campus, but on most we are outnumbered. No single college has the critical mass of conservative student intellectuals we need in order to resuscitate this country and prepare its next Great Awakening.

The Critical Mass blog will unite conservatives on campuses across the country. It is a stream of information flowing through American colleges, growing with each new contributor and contribution, turning gradually into a river of conservative thought. The Critical Mass blog carries the ideas of today’s young conservatives.

National Review also has started a college blog, Phi Beta Cons, and the Independent Women's Forum has sought to connect conservative women on campus as well as men at their Campus Corner.

Also, David Horowitz was in town to promote his new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.

Horowitz will be debating Ward Churchill next Thursday and Friday, April 6-7 at the First National Academic Freedom Conference in DC. Details here. It should be carried on C-span so look for it.

If you're college shopping you need to check out this book! If you're a parent you'll want to know if you're getting your money's worth, and if you're an alum, let your college know you are reconsidering your contribution. There are too many academic quacks on campus!