Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate." In Pernicious Tolerance, Robert Weissberg argues that educators' endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a much larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform America, by first capturing education. Book jacket.

Robert Weissberg is professor of political science emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana. He is the author of numerous books, including Polling Policy and Public Opinion, The Politics of Empowerment, The Limits of Civic Activism, and Pernicious Tolerance.