Persistence of Vision

Indoctrinate U was made in the hope that it would start a necessary and constructive debate about what American higher education is--and what it should be. And it is doing just that. At the Manhattan Institute's Minding the Campus website, John K. Wilson offers a pointed critique of Evan Maloney's film--and Maloney responds with sharpness, wit, and incisive clarity. The back and forth is a good thing--part of a dialogue that is beginning to spring up on campuses across the country, thanks to the film's ongoing campus tour. And it's worth noting that despite his criticisms, Wilson calls Indoctrinate U "the best documentary ever made about higher education" and says that "Every college should show this movie to its administrators, faculty, and students, and use it as the start (but not the end) of a conversation about the state of freedom on campus." And how.