Sex
and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad (St. Martin's Press, Aug. 21, 2012), by Nathan Harden (B.A. 2009, Yale):
To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its
college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale
University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents.” In Sex and God at Yale,
recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and
ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing
less than a full-fledged moral crisis.Three generations ago, William F. Buckley’s classic God and Man at Yale,
a critique of enforced liberalism at his alma mater, became a rallying
cry of the conservative movement. Today Harden reveals how a loss of
purpose, borne of extreme agendas and single-minded political
correctness shielded under labels of “academic freedom,” subverts the
goals of higher education.Harden’s provocative narrative
highlights the implications of the controversial Sex Week on campus and
the social elitism of the Yale “naked party” phenomenon. Going beyond
mere sexual expose, Sex and God at Yale pulls the sheets off of institutional licentiousness and examines how his alma mater got to a point where:
- During “Sex Week” at Yale, porn producers were allowed onto campus
property to give demonstrations on sexual technique—and give out samples
of their products.- An art student received departmental
approval—before the ensuing media attention alerted the public and Yale
alumni—for an art project in which she claimed to have used the blood
and tissue from repeated self-induced miscarriages.- The university became the subject of a federal investigation for allegedly creating a hostile environment for women.
Much
more than this, Harden examines the inherent contradictions in the
partisan politicizing of higher education. What does it say when Yale
seeks to distance itself from its Divinity School roots while at the
same time it hires a Muslim imam with no academic credentials to
instruct students? When the same school that would not allow ROTC on its
campus for decades invites a former Taliban spokesperson to study at
the university?
