David Horowitz Debates Cary Nelson on Academic Freedom

At the National Academic Freedom Conference in Washington, DC, David Horowitz and Cary Nelson debate academic freedom at American universities.

Mr. Horowitz’s new book, “Indoctrination U.,” argues that liberal professors force their political beliefs onto students, at the expense of providing a democratic education.

Cary Nelson’s book, “Office Hours,” argues that conservatives are compromising educational quality by imposing intellectual surveillance on faculty members.

Author Bio: David Horowitz was an organizer of the New Left movement in the 1960s and is now founding editor of Frontpagemag.com. His books include “The Professors: The 100 Most Dangerous Academics in America” and “Radical Son,” an autobiography. He is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Cary Nelson is president of the American Association of University Professors. He is an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the co-author of “Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy” and co-editor of “Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities.”