SCSU Scholars' King Banaian reviews Indoctrinate U, which he saw in Minneapolis last month:
One thing about missing the ‘gala’ opening of Indoctrinate U Friday night at the Oak Street Cinema was that I got instead to sit the following night with a regular crowd. Some families came, some couples, and thanks to its location across from the University of Minnesota campus, many students. The students seemed to enjoy the movie best.[...]
Maloney does not offer any specific solutions to this, but encourages people to see the movie. As he points out, conservatives have long believed this monopoly exists, but he believes that many Democrats and liberals do not know and would want to change what is happening if they did know. So perhaps the best thing for me to recommend about Indoctrinate U is to take a liberal friend to see it. Tell them they should get out more.
And here is Craig Westover of the St. Paul Pioneer Press:
Conservatives are going to love Evan Coyne Maloney's documentary "Indoctrinate U.," an insightful, often outrageously funny and sometimes downright frightening portrait of the liberal monopoly of thought on America's college campuses.However, "Indoctrinate U." is more than a conservative propaganda piece. It's a wake-up call for liberals: The ideological monopoly in American higher education just might be producing students poorly prepared to defend their liberalism in the real world.
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Maloney's style follows the Michael Moore model: "Everyman" with a camera goes in search of the truth and discovers what lots of people already suspect - there is a liberal bias on American college campuses. Maloney, however, doesn't limit himself to reinforcing a predetermined premise. Where Moore uses the documentary genre in service of ideology and politics, Maloney, a self-described libertarian, uses it in service of an idea.
"Indoctrinate U." is not so much about "liberalism" vs. "conservatism," whatever those terms might mean in the higher education context; it is more about the consequences of corrupting the ideal of American higher education as a marketplace of ideas into a single worldview monopoly.
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In the end, Maloney resists the temptation to devolve into a conservative Michael Moore. He doesn't trot out the knee-jerk conservative responses to academic liberal bias. There's no plug for a Student Bill of Rights or a cry to coerce "balance" in the classroom - actions as potentially damaging to a free exchange of ideas as the liberal academic monopoly. "Indoctrinate U." ends on a positive, freedom-loving note:
"It's time for a new movement on campus - a movement to support intellectual diversity and genuine tolerance."
Amen.