When David Horowitz published The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America back in 2006, he hoped to warn the public of the increasingly politicized tenor of American universities where academics use their power and influence to poison the minds of impressionable students with their far-left, anti-American, pro-terror ideologies. In the nearly two decades since the book’s publication, David’s warnings about the increasingly radical political ambitions of universities and their faculties has proved tragically prophetic. In an ironic twist, one reader of The Professors—then an aspiring PhD candidate, now a university instructor in his own right—has publicly confessed that he adopted the book’s profiles of dangerous academics not as a warning but as a how-to guide.
In an article published this month in the notorious pro-jihadist outlet Al Jazeera, Yannick Giovanni Marshall (pictured above) who describes himself as an “academic and scholar of African Studies” writes of Columbia University where he earned his doctorate:
I am not surprised that my, as they say, alma mater, is a central campus site in the battle between universities and protest. Nor am I surprised that my mentors and dissertation adviser remain in settler power’s crosshairs.
Like many, I chose Columbia University for grad school not because of its Ivy League stature or its illustrious reputation; and certainly not because of “legacy admission”. I knew little about these things.
I chose the school that had the most dangerous academics, according to a list generated by famed “right-winger” David Horowitz which I inverted and used as a “Guide to Best US Colleges.”
Marshall continues his diatribe against Horowitz, while explaining that he deliberately sought out those academics who the conservative author thought most dangerous to the American program of higher education:
If the man who would go on to smear “I can’t breathe” protests as a “racial hoax” thought a professor or school was “dangerous” to his cause, I was there. Which were the most hated academic programmes by those who trivialise our lynching? Sign me up. Who were his most hated professors in the MA and PhD programmes? I sought them as my advisers.
That mob that campaigns for political and historical illiteracy, who rush truth into oblivion and have punished Black students and banned books on plantations, prisons and school boards will always point out our sages with their pitchforks.
One feels sympathy for Marshall’s students at the School of Critical Studies, CalArts, where according to his website he is currently a faculty member, as they are undoubtedly subjected to his political rantings and ravings on a regular basis. Not only does Marshall view the most radical academics as his “sages,” he further opines that the purpose of education “is not merely to interpret their world but to undo it. To wobble its genocidal foundations and the ease with which ‘the necessary carpet bombing of the native sector’ is swallowed by the everyman. That is, it is to be, what those who colonise would call, ‘dangerous.’”
So dismal and radicalized is the current state of higher education, that college instructors like Marshall are campaigning for inclusion in an updated edition of The Professors. I’m sure he would take it as a compliment.