
{"id":12369,"date":"2025-11-19T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=12369"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:49:39","slug":"amdm2025november20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/amdm2025\/amdm2025november20\/","title":{"rendered":"November 20th: American Democracy and the University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/assets\/usa-courts-secrecy-lobbyist\/powell-memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Powell, Lewis F., Jr.,&nbsp;&#8220;The Memo&#8221; (1971), excerpt pp. 1-20<\/a><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/lefthand-mills-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Le Guin, Ursula K. &#8220;A Left-Handed Commencement Address&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;(1983)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Announcements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">No Class on Tuesday, 11\/25<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myevals.charlotte.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>AMDM 1575 Teaching Evaluations<\/strong>&#8211;Due by 12\/03<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Discussion Post #10 due tomorrow, Friday, 11\/21, 11:07pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Plan for the Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Finish up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/amdm2025\/dwighteisenhower\/\">Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/amdm2025\/amdm2025november13\/#https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/amdm2025\/amdm2025november13\/#CesarChavez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lewis F. Powell, Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;The Memo.&#8221; Attack On American Free Enterprise System (1971)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s &#8220;A Left-Handed Commencement Address&#8221; (1983)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Democracy\/Liberty\/Freedom\/ETC. quotation:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;In a State, even a <strong>democracy<\/strong>, where <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">power is hierarchic<\/span><\/strong>, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful\u2014<strong>another piston in the great machine?<\/strong>&#8220;<br>\u2014<strong>Ursula K. Le Guin,&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Always Coming Home<\/em>. Harper and Row, 1985.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lewis F. Powell, Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;The Memo.&#8221;<\/strong> (1971)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Key biographical points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Another Important Virginian in American History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colonel in the Army Air Force (WWII)&#8211;1942-1945<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/national\/longterm\/supcourt\/stories\/powell082698.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Registered Democrat<\/a><\/strong> (Biskupic and Barbash)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate Lawyer for Big Tobacco (specifically, Phillip Morris)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supreme Court Justice&#8211;nominated by Richard Nixon in 1971\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yet voted to &#8220;forc[e] Nixon to turn over White House tapes relating to Watergate&#8221; (Biskupic and Barbash para. 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/state-legislature\/wilder-swearing-in\/4654134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swore in Virginia&#8217;s first Black Governor, Douglas Wilder<\/a><\/strong>, because Wilder asked him to (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/transcripts\/95739248?storyId=95739248?storyId=95739248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;This American Moment&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.<\/a><\/strong> has been getting a lot of attention in the last couple years for this &#8220;Memo&#8221; that many consider the blueprint for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project 2025<\/a><\/strong>. We&#8217;re not covering that because we end in 1989, but it seems important to mention. This memo was supposed to be an internal document (CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM) for the Chamber of Commerce (not to be confused with <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/a><\/strong><\/em>), but it got out. We&#8217;re only concerned with the first 20 pages, specifically the stuff about Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p. 1: &#8220;&#8230;the American economic system is under broad <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">attack<\/span><\/strong>.<sup>1<\/sup>&#8220;1. Variously called: the &#8220;<strong>free enterprise system<\/strong>,&#8221; &#8220;<strong>capitalism<\/strong>,&#8221; and the &#8220;<strong>profit system<\/strong>.&#8221; The American political system of democracy under t<strong>he rule of law is also under <span style=\"background-color:yellow\">attack<\/span><\/strong>, often by the same individuals and organizations who seek to undermine the enterprise system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 2: We&#8217;re fine with &#8220;<strong>critics of the system, whose criticism<\/strong> has been wholesome and constructive so long as the objective <strong>was to improve rather than to <span style=\"background-color:yellow\">subvert<\/span> or <span style=\"background-color:yellow\">destroy<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 2: &#8220;&#8230;a relatively few <strong>extremists<\/strong> or even from <strong>the minority socialist cadre<\/strong>&#8230;.It is gaining momentum and converts.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 2: Sources of Attack: &#8220;&#8230;&nbsp;<strong>the Communists<\/strong>, <strong>New Leftists and other revolutionaries<\/strong> who would destroy the entire system, both political and economic.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pp. 2-3: &#8220;&#8230;perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 3: &#8220;&#8230;the enterprise system tolerates, if not participates in, <strong>its own destruction<\/strong>.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Compare to Eisenhower&#8217;s statement:<br>&#8220;I see no reason for the Federal Government of the United States to be supporting something that advocates its own destruction. That seems to me to be about the acme of silliness&#8221; (<strong>&#8220;The President\u2019s News Conference,&#8221;<\/strong> 17 June 1953, para. 37)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pp. 3-4: Notice Powell&#8217;s concern with the media as a business that &#8220;&#8230;are owned and theoretically <strong>controlled by corporations which depend upon profits<\/strong>, and the enterprise system to survive.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 4: William F. Buckley reports on William Kunstler, who claims, &#8216;You must learn to fight in the streets, to revolt, to shoot guns. We will learn to do <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">all of the things that property owners fear<\/span><\/strong>.'&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 4: &#8220;Although New Leftist spokesmen are succeeding in <strong>radicalizing thousands of the young<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 5: Whether this is true or as prevalent as Powell claims isn&#8217;t too relevant because it&#8217;s believed:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stewart Alsop\u2014&#8221;other major college, is graduating scores of bright young men who are practitioners of &#8216;the politics of despair.&#8217; These young men despise the American political and economic system . . . (their) minds seem to be wholly closed. They live, not by rational discussion, but by mindless slogans.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Almost half the students favored socialization of basic U.S. industries.<\/strong>&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/01\/socialism-capitalism-college-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poll: College Students Prefer Socialism to Capitalism<\/a><\/strong> (Pandey &amp; Talev, 1 Nov 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notice the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifth_column\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fifth Column<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 6: He was not a fan of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Nader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ralph Nader<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 7: Calls out Marxist doctrine:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;the broad, shotgun attack on the system itself.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;This setting of the &#8216;rich&#8217; against the &#8216;poor,&#8217; of business against the people, is the cheapest and most dangerous kind of politics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 8: &#8220;&#8230;it must be recognized that businessmen have not been trained or equipped to conduct <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">guerrilla warfare with those who propagandize against the system, seeking insidiously and constantly to sabotage it<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 9: &#8220;&#8230;he tendency of business leaders to compromise with and appease critics. He cited the concessions which Nader wins from management&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 9: &#8220;&#8230;it is long overdue\u2014for the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to be marshalled <strong>against those who would destroy it<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 11: Corporate Solidarity???\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Strength lies in organization&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><u>The Campus<\/u><\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p. 12: &#8220;<strong>The assault on the enterprise system<\/strong> was not mounted in a few months.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 12: &#8220;The social science faculties usually include members who are unsympathetic to the enterprise system.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>pp. 12-13: &#8220;&#8230;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Marcuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Herbert Marcuse<\/a><\/strong>, Marxist faculty member at the University of California at San Diego&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Theory and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Frankfurt_Institute_for_Social_Research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the Frankfurt School<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 13: &#8220;<strong>Social science faculties<\/strong> (the political scientist, economist, sociologist and many of the historians) <strong>tend to be liberally oriented<\/strong>&#8230;.This is not a criticism per se, as the need for <strong>liberal thought is essential to a balanced viewpoint<\/strong>. The difficulty is <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">that &#8216;balance&#8217; is conspicuous by its absence on many campuses<\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesgmartin.center\/2015\/09\/the-decline-of-the-english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;The Decline of the English Department,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> Jay Schalin, Pope Center director of policy analysis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesgmartin.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Decline-of-the-English-Department.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voter Registration<\/a><\/strong>, (PDF) p. 14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;seeking an answer to <strong>why so many young people are disaffected<\/strong> even to the point of being <strong><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">revolutionaries<\/span><\/strong>, it was said: &#8216;Because they were taught that way.'&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 14: When individuals &#8220;enter <strong>the enterprise system<\/strong>\u2014in business and the professions\u2014and for the most part they quickly discover the fallacies of what they have been taught.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 15: &#8220;<strong>Few things are more sanctified in American life than academic freedom<\/strong>. It would be fatal to attack this as a principle. But if <span style=\"background-color:yellow\">academic freedom<\/span> is to retain the qualities of &#8216;openness,&#8217; &#8216;fairness&#8217; and &#8216;balance&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pp. 16-17: &#8220;&#8230;evaluate social science textbooks, especially in economics, political science and sociology.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"background-color:yellow\">should be oriented toward restoring the balance essential to genuine academic freedom.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 17: &#8220;&#8230;individual rights and freedoms, and comparisons with <strong>the systems of socialism, fascism and communism<\/strong>.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Remember, reductio ad Hitlerum doesn&#8217;t need to just focus on Hitler and the NAZis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 17: &#8220;In a democratic society, this can be a constructive process and should be regarded as an aid to genuine academic freedom and not as an intrusion upon it.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pp. 17-18: &#8220;The FBI publishes each year a list of speeches made on college campuses by avowed Communists. The number in 1970 exceeded 100.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 18: &#8220;&#8230;unless the Chamber aggressively insisted upon the right to be heard\u2014in effect, insisted upon &#8220;equal time&#8221;&#8230;.indeed, this is <strong>the classic excuse for allowing <span style=\"background-color:yellow\">Communists<\/span> to speak<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 19: &#8220;The objective always must be to inform and enlighten, and not merely to propagandize.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Powell doesn&#8217;t appear to promote capitalism for the sake of capitalism but because he feels it&#8217;s the best system out there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s &#8220;A Left-Handed Commencement Address&#8221;<\/strong> (1983)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong> is best known as a science fiction writer who experiments with radical situations, including an Anarchist society on the harsh moon Anarres (<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dispossessed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dispossessed<\/a><\/strong><\/em>). Her father, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Kroeber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alfred Kroeber<\/a><\/strong>, was a cultural anthropologist at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/lefthand-mills-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this commencement address<\/a><\/strong>, LeGuin raises the issue of a woman\u2019s \u201cplace\u201d in society. Sure, the address is from 1983, but I think we can continue to point to contemporary situations where&nbsp;women\u2019s roles are defined in relation to men: think hegemony and patriarchy. Even if you don&#8217;t agree that those theories are valid in 2025, at least recognize them in context. The address is at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mills_College_at_Northeastern_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mills College<\/a><\/strong>, an all-women&#8217;s college at the time. It eventually had to merge with Northeastern University. Consider the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why is the female-only environment peculiar in light of American Democracy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Could the female-only space actually enhance democratic ideals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some quotations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>para 2: \u201cIntellectual tradition is male\u201d; therefore, <strong>men are the standard in academic circles<\/strong> and their modes of discourse are seen as the norm.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anastasio_Somoza_Debayle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">General Somoza<\/a><\/strong>, by anything they say, tell me how. <strong>This is a man\u2019s world, so it talks a man\u2019s language<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 3: If you want kids, have them\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 4: \u201cSuccess is somebody else\u2019s failure.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 5: \u201cYou\u2019ll work for possessions and then find they possess you.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 7: View of society\u2013\u201cThe so-called man\u2019s world of institutionalized competition, aggression, violence, authority, and power.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 7 &amp; 8: What\u2019s her issue with&nbsp;<strong>Machoman<\/strong>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>para 9: To live in a world \u201cwithout the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Next Class<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no class meeting on Tuesday, 11\/25, so we won&#8217;t meet face to face until the last class day of class: Tuesday, 12\/02. Don&#8217;t forget to do <span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>Weekly Discussion #10<\/strong><\/span> before Friday, 11\/21, 1:07pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biskupic, Joan and Fred Barbash. Retired Justice Lewis Powell Dies at 90. <em>Washington Post<\/em>. 26 Aug 1998, p. A1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America.&#8221; NPR.com. 15 Oct 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandey, Erica and Margaret Talev. &#8220;Poll: College Students Prefer Socialism to Capitalism.&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/01\/socialism-capitalism-college-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axios.com<\/a><\/strong>, 1 Nov 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powell, Lewis F., Jr.,&nbsp;&#8220;The Memo&#8221; (1971), excerpt pp. 1-20Le Guin, Ursula K. &#8220;A Left-Handed Commencement Address&#8221;&nbsp;(1983) Announcements Plan for the Day Lewis F. Powell, Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;The Memo.&#8221; (1971) Key biographical points: Associate Justice Lewis F. 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