In 1964 Student Revolutionaries led by several New York Communists shut down the 27,000 students-campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Instead of a Red Revolution, they demanded "relevancy" in higher education and "meaningful dialogue" between students and faculty on the issues confronting America at the time - not very communist but very, bourgeois democratic principles! They thus stole from the liberal and conservative champions of democracy their issue. Fortunately, their efforts at turning the campus into a Red-run labor union type of "closed shop" failed. But that does not change the historical fact that they initiated and brought to fruition the "academic freedom" which faculty and students enjoy today.

Over the decades since then, the loud vociferous longhaired revolutionary students of the 60s became the balding professors of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But once given command of the very system which they supposedly sought to destroy, these students turned professors did not uphold the principles of liberal education in whose name they aroused the student masses, but instead operated a bit like a Stalinist bureaucracy : they squelched debate; they sought personal benefits for themselves and immunity to any accountability through "academic freedom" and tenure; they suppressed opposing views in the name of "activist morality" and "political necessity" through abuse of their authority and punitive use of grades against career minded students; they wrecked the careers of young faculty whose views were opposed to theirs through bureaucratic means such as tenure selection; and, most importantly, they stifled meaningful dialogue by denigrating other views other than their own, surrounding the proponents of views other than their orthodoxy with a wall of silence and "lockout" from access to academic means of ideas dissemination.

This criminality of self-interested autocratic rule, intertwined into an intellectually corrupt atmosphere, caused a slip from the scholarly and idealistic high point of the 60s to the subsequent backward slide into the anti - "egg head" public perspective of the 50s. This has provoked a "silent revolution" by today's students, very quietly they just don't show up! They just don't care!

Today academia - particularly in social science and the humanities - suffers as a totally discredited institution. Students "just get it over with" because they "have to get that sheepskin" in order to go on to business and other professional pursuits. Academic books become available as "remainders" within as little as six months of publication and journals are decreasing to a precious few.

Specifically the history of America in a 20th Century World is becoming a field of limited interest to a very few people. A frenzied situation can be found in the shrinking pool of scholarship where the few remaining balding academics are desperately fighting to wet their gills with the little moisture left in the drying-up pond. In contrast to the physical science and professional studies, the social science are in a tragic deathwatch - all the fault of academic greed and unethical self-centeredness!

When the graduate students of today now burdened with the taxing "paying of their dues" in order to "get that union card" will get there turn, the cubbard will be bare because today's faculty has sucked the life out of America's intellectual assets. Fortunately, the World Wide Web has provided intellect and academia a new lease on life. This web page is an attempt at exploiting this great asset for "meaningful dialogue".

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