I Don't Need No Steenking College

Newt Gingrich will host a special called Why Does College Cost So Much on Fox News at 8 pm Eastern, Sunday. It will probably rerun through the night. I plan to watch it. When I graduated from high school, I could have had a scholarship at any school I wanted. But, I decided to try to get a piece of the war instead. It was my opinion then and it is now that college is an expensive waste of time and money. I still believe it, but got my degrees while I was in the military, because, although all your most important knowledge and skills are obtained through life experiences, employers still require you to check the boxes. I believed then that colleges were places for liberal professors to brainwash students and get rich by raking in huge salaries, selling their books at scandalous prices and winning government grants. I still believe that, particularly when colleges offer courses like this.

At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a mandatory course for some freshmen is "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie." It's a course where Professor Elizabeth J. Chin explores ways in "which scientific racism has been put to use in the making of Barbie [and] to an interpretation of the film 'The Matrix' as a Marxist critique of capitalism." Johns Hopkins University students can enroll in a course called "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll in Ancient Egypt." Part of the course includes slide shows of women in ancient Egypt "vomiting on each other," "having intercourse" and "fixing their hair." Harvard University students can take "Marxist Concepts of Racism," which examines "the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality." You can bet there's no mention of the genocide in Africa and former communist regimes like Yugoslavia. Young America's Foundation and Accuracy in Academia publish lists of courses like these, at many other colleges, that are nothing less than student indoctrination through academic dishonesty.