Letters to a Young Progressive

How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand

By: Mike S. Adams

Narrated by: Fred Kennedy

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Presented as a series of letters between Adams and his former student, Zach, Letters to a Young Progressive reveals how the "education" of college kids across the country is producing a generation of unhappy, unimaginative, and unproductive adults. The perfect book to help parents prevent - or undo - the ubiquitous liberal brainwashing of their children before it is too late.

©2013 Mike S. Adams (P)2014 Regnery Publishing

Great Book!

The best book on the political left that I have read. I highly recommend it!

great book !

excellent book. presents common sense arguments for the moral issues of our day, from a biblical perspective.

Great Book

Loved this book! It really helps you understand the secular world view and how it has effected people today.

Awesome and still relevant in 2022

My utmost prayer and desire is for my granddaughter to listen to this book on audible, which I have given her. I love the way you take the liberal concepts of social justice piece by piece and take them straight down to the evil roots from which they came.

Eye opening

If you or someone you know is about to attend college. This is a book that is definitely worth reading / listening to!

Great Graduation gift:

Insightful and even handed, Mike Adams writes exceptionally well with keen insight on today’s controversial subjects with the skill of sound debate. He presents hard facts and clarity with sound reasoning. A conservative and Christian voice.

Disappointing Recommendation

2.5 Stars. The author did well defending his position on the pro-life vs pro-choice debate, but the rest of the book fell flat. The author provided no actual sources for his arguments/statistics.

Additionally, as a teacher myself, his viewpoints on teachers are very upsetting. I do not say, "That's a good idea," to students because of a lack of belief in definitive right and wrong answers. Rather, I do this to encourage students (1) to be willing to engage in conversation about a topic by sharing their ideas and (2) to show them it is okay to struggle as they work towards the correct answer. By encouraging them to answer and/or pose questions (even when their viewpoint is objectively incorrect), I can use their baseline understanding to build upon as I help them learn the true answer to questions posed in class. The fact that the author made the blanket statement that teachers do this purely to force moral relativism onto students was unsettling.

Misleading.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The performance was admittedly fantastic, but unfortunately that couldn't save the content from becoming about the author's personal faith two thirds of the way through.

Has Letters to a Young Progressive turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not unless they also attempt to convert the reader to Christianity completely out of the blue.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Letters to a Young Progressive?

The entire last third of the book.

Any additional comments?

I was expecting an analysis of the problems with progressive and Leftists politics, with evidence. It started off that way, but started to rely more and more on unsubstantiated assumptions, and eventually become entirely about Christianity. Also, the author is indeed a homophobe, regardless of his semantic-based protestations to the contrary.Very disappointing.