YAF’s 29th Annual ‘Comedy & Tragedy Report’ Exposes Leftist Lunacy Masquerading as ‘Higher Education’

Since 1995, Young America’s Foundation has released “Comedy and Tragedy” to document the intellectual abuse and flat-out indoctrination happening by way of the appalling curriculum at our country’s most (so-called) prestigious institutions of higher learning. The full report covering 250+ courses at more than 50 of America’s top-ranked colleges and universities can be viewed and downloaded here.

As tuition rates increase and students face ever-growing college-related debt, the value and quality of education plummets. Rather than training the next generation of American leaders, so-called “premiere” institutions churn out class after class of adults who are unable to tolerate opposing viewpoints.  Many of the courses and descriptions listed in this year’s report may seem comical at first glance, but the situation that continues to unfold on America’s campuses is hardly a laughing matter. 

Beyond the inane, identity- and intersectionality-obsessed topics, these classes advance a liberal agenda, malign conservatives and their values, and shut out ideological diversity.

Among the courses highlighted in this year’s report are:

• “Queer Nightlife” – Brown University
• “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice” – Columbia University
• “Music and Socialism” – Brown University
• “Dangerous Intersections: Intersectionality Beyond Boundaries” – Dartmouth College
• “From Perverts to Campy Queers: The Gender Troubles of Modern Jewish Culture” – University of California, Berkeley
• “The Queer Bible” – Swarthmore College
• “Feminism Without Women” – Yale University
• “Sex Wars” – University of Pennsylvania
• “Woke Nature: Towards an Anthropology of Non-Human Beings” – Carleton College
• “Bad Bunny: Race, Gender, and Empire in Reggaeton” – Wellesley College
• “The Space Crone and Her Children: Queer Reproductions in Science Fiction” – Brown University
• “Transnational Feminisms” – Dartmouth College

Young America’s Foundation regularly reviews and audits course catalogs, reading requirements, commencement speakers, and other key metrics that show the true state of higher education in America. These reports peel back the shiny veneer colleges and universities place on themselves in the name of “higher” education to reveal a stark reality: campuses devoid of intellectual diversity populated with leftist professors, faculty, and administrators intent on indoctrinating the rising generation in the ways of the Left.  Today’s universities create and even trumpet their “diversity and inclusion” centers and gleefully release statistics on the diversity of race, gender, and sexual orientation of their faculty while remaining entirely homogeneous when it comes to diversity of thought.  

For additional information on YAF’s Comedy & Tragedy Report or to request an interview, contact Young America’s Foundation Chief Communications Officer Spencer Brown via [email protected] or 800-872-1776.