Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind
    Unavailable
    The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind
    Unavailable
    The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind
    Ebook445 pages7 hours

    The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind

    By Bruce Bawer

    2.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Respected author, critic, and essayist Bruce Bawer—whose previous book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist—now offers a trenchant and sweeping critique of the sorry state of higher education since the campus revolutions of the late ’60s and early ’70s. In The Victims’ Revolution, Bawer incisively contends that the rise of identity-based college courses and disciplines (Women’s Studies, Black Studies, Gay Studies, etc.) forty years ago has resulted in an impoverishment of thought and widespread political confusion, while filling the brains of students with politically correct mush. Timely, controversial, and brilliantly argued, Bawer’s The Victims’ Revolution is necessary reading for students, educators, and anyone concerned about the contemporary crisis in academia—a serious and important work that stands with other essential books on the subject, like The Shadow University by Alan Kors, Illiberal Education by Dinesh D’Souza, and  Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 4, 2012
    ISBN9780062097064
    Unavailable
    The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind
    Author

    Bruce Bawer

    A native New Yorker who has lived in Norway since 1999, Bruce Bawer has written several influential books on a range of issues. A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (1993) was named by columnist Dale Carpenter as the most important non-fiction book about homosexuality published in the 1990s; Publishers Weekly called Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1997) “a must-read book for anyone concerned with the relationship of Christianity to contemporary American culture”; While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom (2009) was hailed by Booklist as “immensely important and urgent." He has also published several collections of literary and film criticism, including Diminishing Fictions and The Aspect of Eternity, and a collection of poetry, Coast to Coast, which was selected by the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook as the best first book of poems published in 1993. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Hudson Review, City Journal, The American Scholar, Wilson Quarterly, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reviewed books regularly for the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Wall Street Journal.

    Read more from Bruce Bawer

    Related to The Victims' Revolution

    Related ebooks

    Social History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Progressive? Unh, unh.

      Jun 27, 2019

      Progressive? Unh, unh.
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Master of Negation

      Aug 13, 2018

      The Master of Negation
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Seduction Of Socialism

      Jul 26, 2018

      For the current generation, sometimes referred to as millennials, it appears one thing is more seductive than sex -- and that's socialism. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, winner of a New York Democratic primary, a

      2 min read

    • Article

      Auntie’s Quota-led New Faces

      Oct 28, 2021

      Auntie’s Quota-led New Faces
      5 min read

    • Article

      To Destroy America

      Sep 1, 2020

      To Destroy America
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Marxist Sleepers Waging War On Woke

      Nov 26, 2020

      BACK IN THE EARLY 1980s, when I was studying politics at Leeds University, I had a lengthy reading list of dense, important books. But my favourite work, at best tangentially related to my course, was a tattered pamphlet called “Go Fourth and Multipl

      16 min read

    • Article

      Christchurch Brings Global White Supremacist Threat Into Sharp Relief

      Mar 22, 2019

      White supremacist terrorism is on the rise around the world. The attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, has brought new awareness of the long-underestimated threat.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Oh, The Agony!

      Mar 25, 2020

      QI don’t agree with sending children to boarding school and never have done—I think it causes all sorts of emotional issues, but, more importantly, I believe they should be at home with their parents. Why have them otherwise? My wife, however, is det

      1 min read

    • Article

      Jason Stanley

      May 23, 2019

      Jason Stanley
      3 min read

    • Article

      Liberalism, More or Less

      Jul 11, 2022

      Liberalism, More or Less
      6 min read

    • Article

      Blame It All On John Locke?

      Jul 17, 2020

      Blame It All On John Locke?
      14 min read

    • Article

      There Was A Time When China And The US Were Both Liberal

      Apr 28, 2022

      Liberalism is much in the news these days, but there is little agreement on what the term means. Joe Biden's Democracy Summit last December was widely criticised for its double standards, with several of the invited nations embracing some variety of

      6 min read

    • Article

      America Without God

      Mar 10, 2021

      America Without God
      8 min read

    • Article

      Freedom of Thought

      Mar 4, 2019

      Oxford University Press, 220 pp., $18.95 REAL PRESIDENTS READ BOOKS. When the Library of Congress was destroyed in the War of 1812, the former president Thomas Jefferson offered his collection to replace it, commenting that “I do not know that it co

      4 min read

    Reviews for The Victims' Revolution

    2.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      I don't think I will finish this book. Mr. Bawer should have written an essay instead of a 350 page book. The last sentence "The future of America hangs is the balance," is quite juvenile.