Fact-checking David Horowitz Smear of UT-Austin

by: FreeExchange

Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 07:57 PM CDT

To help promote their cause, they routinely publish attacks on higher education institutions and faculty.  David Horowitz's latest effort in this vein has been his so-called "indoctrination u" studies over at his vast left-wing conspiracy site.

Free Exchange has taken on the unenviable task of slogging through these "indoctrination" screeds to correct errors and misrepresentations which characterize these pieces.  The "study" of the University of Texas-Austin (where, according to Horowitz, students can enroll in "a fairly comprehensive undergraduate major in radical politics") was particularly replete with unfounded accusations and character assassinations.  We thought Burnt Orange readers would appreciate our latest fact check where we focus on some of the more egregious claims.

To read the whole series of Horowitz corrections, just visit our Horowitz Fact Checker.