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Stanley K. Ridgley is Professor of Management at Drexel University.

He is a former military intelligence officer who served in Europe.

His new book is Brutal Minds, the Dark World of Left Wing Brainwashing in Art our universities. That's our topic today. Welcome,

Professor Ridgely. Thanks so much, Mark. It's a pleasure to be here. Now, I presume that as a former

intelligence officer, you don't use the term brainwashing lightly or casually. It's deliberate here. Well, it certainly is, and it certainly

describes what's going on in America's College campuses. It's a term that is not really

colloquial. It appears in the DSM-5, or the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

The more formal name, my guess, for it would be thought reform, a thought reform program,

which seeks to change a person's belief system by way of psychological manipulation and behavior

modification techniques.

Well established, and the psychological damage that it can inflict on students and faculty and staff, of course,

is substantial. And the techniques that they've been codified, they're, one can become experts

in this. And maybe in a less formal way, this is an accurate description of a lot of college campus activity.

Well, I think so. And I think that my book, Brutal Minds describes who the villains are,

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