Audie Award Nominee, Nonfiction, 2013
Audie Award Nominee, Nonfiction, 2013
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...