The American university system has added Shakespeare and Milton to the list of casualties of left-wing indoctrination as UCLA proves it would rather teach about the ruminations of Dan Savage than Julius Caesar.

When Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald spoke before a New York City audience at the 2013 Wriston Lecture earlier this month, she stated the following in regards to UCLA's English-Lit Department:

Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had been required to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton — the cornerstones of English literature.

Following a revolt of the junior faculty, however, during which it was announced that Shakespeare was part of the ‘Empire,’ UCLA junked these individual author requirements and replaced them with a mandate that all English majors take three courses in the following four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing.

In other words, the UCLA faculty was now officially indifferent as to whether an English major had ever read a word of Milton, Chaucer or Shakespeare, but was determined to expose students, according to the course catalogue, to ‘alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race and class.

Mac Donald finished off the speech referencing a Columbia University student who lamented his curriculums' requirement to study Mozart by saying, it "upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. It’s a racist core. Who is this Mozart, this Haydn, these superior white men?”

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