27 September 2007 >> I am happy to report that the public premiere of Indoctrinate U has sold out. Thanks to everyone who supported this project by sending well-wishes, by telling friends, and by writing about it.

And thanks especially to everyone who bought tickets—I’ll see you Friday night at the Kennedy Center!

19 September 2007 >> Recently, I was invited by the Pope Center to write a piece for their Clarion Call describing some of the resistance I faced from college administrators while putting together Indoctrinate U.

In the article, I talk a bit about my run-in with the head of security at my alma mater, Bucknell University. It was one of some half-dozen times police and security officers were called on me while making the film.

The public premiere of Indoctrinate U is next Friday evening (September 28th) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. For the time being, tickets are still available. And if you want to come to the after party at the infamous Watergate Hotel, you can get a package that includes tickets for the premiere and after-party admission.

15 September 2007 @ 12:13PM >> Syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock discusses Indoctrinate U in his latest piece.

21 August 2007 @ 9:46AM >> Mark your calendars for the evening of Friday, September 28th, when Indoctrinate U will make its public debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Tickets are now on sale for the event, which is organized by the American Film Renaissance.

Tickets are also available for the after-party to take place across the street at 600 Restaurant in the infamous Watergate Hotel.

Dates for screenings in other cities will be announced once the details have been set.

Update: The screening has sold out! Sorry to everyone unable to buy tickets.

8 August 2007 >> Damian Thompson, a columnist with London’s Telegraph, recently wrote about Indoctrinate U, calling the film “a documentary that all of you should see.”

Mr. Thompson covered this film project in a piece published by the Telegraph two years ago, back when the working title was “Ministry of Truth.”

27 July 2007 @ 9:12AM >> Over at the website for the film, you will find an update on Indoctrinate U and our plans to show the film publicly.

I am also happy to report that there are now 7 metropolitan areas that have over 500 screening requests, which is our threshold for arranging screenings in a particular area.

12 June 2007 @ 9:59AM >> I will be on a panel discussing Congressional earmarks, pork-barrel spending, and socialized medicine. It doesn’t sound like I’ll get a chance to plug my film, but apparently Michael Moore’s new celluloid fellation of Fidel Castro will be one of the topics covered.

The show airs between 8PM and 9PM ET. I’m not sure when this particular segment will appear.

Update: The producers needed to trim some fat from the schedule, so we won’t be discussing Michael Moore or socialized medicine.

18 May 2007 @ 7:24PM >> I will be a guest tomorrow morning on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal Weekend” discussing Indoctrinate U. Apparently, clips from the film will be shown, and we will also be taking calls. The show airs at 9AM ET and will last about a half-hour. It may also be repeated several times throughout the weekend.

Update: Here’s a direct link to an MPEG-4 video of the show.

18 March 2007 >> I just got back home from taping Hannity’s America a little while ago. It airs tonight on Fox News.

Knowing the show airs tonight gave us a hard deadline for finally completing the Indoctrinate U website. So while a total lack of sleep over the last 3 days probably didn’t help my coherence with Sean Hannity (I don’t even really remember what I said, but hopefully it made sense), at least we were able to get everything working on the site, including the trailer and an innovative sign-up feature that gave me a chance to write some code for Google Maps. More on that later. For now, I’m going to start a belated St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

Update: Wouldn’t you know it, my cable is out. So I guess I won’t be taping it... Thanks, Time Warner!

15 March 2007 >> I will be appearing on Sean Hannity’s television show this Sunday night to discuss my upcoming film Indoctrinate U. We will be showing clips from the film as well as the trailer, which will be released online this weekend. Hannity’s America airs on Fox News Channel at 9PM and again at midnight (Eastern time).

28 February 2007 >> I will be in Washington, D.C. this Friday evening for a screening of the Indoctrinate U trailer at CPAC. This appearance is part of an event hosted by the Moving Picture Institute.

Stop by and say hi if you’re in the area of the Omni Shoreham hotel around 8:30PM.

More information is available on the invitation [PDF file; 276K].

5 November 2006 >> On Monday night (November 6th), I’ll be appearing on the Comcast show It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle. We’ll be discussing the upcoming election, including a bunch of Senate races I haven’t been following. The truth is out: political chat shows really do book people who don’t know what they’re talking about! (Hard to believe, I know.) Well, tomorrow’s my turn to be that guy, on Comcast CN8 throughout the northeast and mid-Atlantic states at 9PM ET.

And throughout election day on Tuesday, I’ll be helping Pajamas Media cover the Connecticut Senate race from Hartford and the headquarters of current Senator—and former Democrat—Joe Lieberman.

24 August 2006 @ 1:15PM >> Earlier this week, I shut down the discussion forum on Brain Terminal and replaced it with a new sister site called Free Speech Free-for-all.

In addition to providing a discussion forum much like the one that existed here, the new Free Speech Free-for-all site allows users to create their own blogs, post links to news stories, and conduct opinion polls.

Part of the reason behind spinning off a separate site is that I’m hoping Free Speech Free-for-all will develop into a community that does not lean heavily in one ideological direction or another.

Most online forums coalesce around a particular point of view. As a result, participants can very easily wall themselves off from information that challenges their assumptions. Groupthink develops over time, and the communities become echo chambers.

I think the value of online media is that everyone has ready access to information they might not otherwise see. The downside is that on the Internet, everyone can live within their own ideological cocoon.

In the past, non-partisan communities that discuss news and politics have had a very difficult time sustaining themselves online, because they usually end up devolving into endless flamewars. The people who contributed value to the community end up leaving, thinking that the conversation has become pointless.

Through smarter software, I hope to prevent that from happening.

It’s an experiment, and I’ll be tweaking the behavior of the site over time to try to strike the proper balance.

If you think this kind of experiment has merit, I hope you’ll join the free-for-all.

22 August 2006 >> Five years ago today, I launched this website with an essay on the Microsoft anti-trust case. Back then, I was a software developer, and I planned on using this site as a platform for discussing technology. (The word “terminal” in the name of the site originally referred the old “green screen” computer terminals, and is not an effort on my part to imply that I’m terminally brain dead, as a number of critics have kindly suggested.)

Less than three weeks after my first post, an event happened that changed the course of many lives. The attacks of September 11th ripped families apart and blasted a still-unfilled hole in lower Manhattan. The attacks also made it impossible to ignore radical Islam, a phenomenon that has been growing and threatening Western society since the 1970s.

Watching the towers burn from the rooftop of my office building re-connected me with my long-held passion for politics and world affairs, and the experience gave me a new purpose for this site.

About a year and a half later, I posted my first of a dozen short videos, and thanks to my run-in with Michael Moore, I stumbled into a career as a documentary filmmaker.

And now, this fall, my first feature-length documentary Indoctrinate U will be released.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Thanks to everyone who’s shared it with me, and to all of you who’ve written in with words of encouragement over the years.

14 July 2006 >> I mentioned a couple of days ago that my upcoming film Indoctrinate U is finally in shape for us to show to distributors. Luckily, that also means that for the first time since starting this project nearly three years ago, I can take an entire week off!

Although I understand that the urge is hard to overcome, I don’t plan on posting anything for the next week. But since I can’t bear the thought of you going without your regular dose of some guy’s opinion, here are just a few of my favorite sites:

• Instapundit, a frequently-updated site run by a robot that claims to be a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
• RealClearPolitics, the political junkie’s well-stocked dealer, providing a twice-daily comprehensive roundup of mainstream media opinion columnists.
• PressThink by NYU professor Jay Rosen, one of the most thorough and thoughtful commentators on the state of the news media, a straight-shooter.
• Mickey Kaus’s column at Slate, KausFiles, is the kind of site you look forward to checking, and then you get mad when it hasn’t been updated.
• James Taranto is another must-read, although he’s on vacation himself, until the 17th.

Let’s see...what else? Oh yeah:

• Anything by Charles Krauthammer, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, or Jonah Goldberg.
• And, finally, some comic relief from Greg Gutfeld, Cox & Forkum, and Chris Muir’s Day by Day.

There. That should keep you nice & busy while I’m gone.

I know what you’re thinking; this time apart will be tough, but don’t worry. We’ll get through it. I’ll be back from the offline world soon.

You kids behave, now. I better not come home to find this place in shambles.

12 July 2006 >> The idea was simple enough: give the world a small taste of the political environment that college students face every day.

How many people outside academia realize the degree to which classrooms have become political platforms for professors? Who off campus hears that entire press runs of student newspapers routinely “disappear” because they contain opinions that challenge the campus orthodoxy? Who knew professors could be hounded out of their jobs simply for failing to register with the preferred political party?

While campus political correctness has been the subject of magazine articles and books, people rarely get a chance to see the students and professors who suffer very real punishment simply for holding the “incorrect” set of views. Never before have the excesses of the campus power structure been scrutinized in a feature-length documentary film.

Nearly three years ago, I teamed up with Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg to form On The Fence Films, specifically for the purpose of creating films that ask questions other filmmakers weren’t. Our first planned feature-length film would cover the political environment on college campuses.

I am very happy to report that this film, Indoctrinate U, is now being shown to distributors and should be released this fall. We are also setting up a campus tour to coincide with the release; I’ll be traveling to schools around the country screening the film.

• Film distributors interested in Indoctrinate U should contact Blaine Greenberg at:
  blaine (AT) onthefencefilms (DOT) com
• Students (or anyone affiliated with a college or university) who want to bring Indoctrinate U to their campus can request a screening.

Indoctrinate U covers a number of stories never before shown on screen. Some of the stories are bizarre and so hard to believe that you may end up researching them yourself. And if you do, you’ll realize that the truth on campus truly is stranger than fiction. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s frightening, and sometimes, it’s just plain depressing.

We haven’t posted our trailer online yet, but in the meantime, here’s a bit of a tease.

10 March 2006 @ 1:02PM >> Yesterday in Los Angeles, Indoctrinate U reached a major milestone. (For those of you new to this site, Indoctrinate U is a feature-length documentary project analyzing political correctness and attempts to enforce uniformity of thought on college campuses.)

On The Fence Films executive producers Stuart Browning, Blaine Greenberg and I watched the very first end-to-end assembly of the footage that will eventually comprise the film.

Although there are a few bits missing, and a few others that need to be tightened up a bit, it was quite exciting to finally see something that’s beginning to resemble a finished product after 2+ years of work.

We’ve got a few more months to go before the film is polished enough to be ready for release. We are also likely to hold the film until the school year starts again in the fall. And, of course, the amount of time it takes to hammer out a distribution deal may affect all of this.

Still, it is good to finally see something that’s beginning to resemble a finished product after all this work.

27 January 2006 @ 7:15AM >> Last fall, The Times of London ran a profile discussing my film project covering the political correctness on college campuses. I just got an electronic copy of the text and have now posted it online.

11 January 2006 >> The second podcast in the newly-inaugurated series hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith is now online.

Stuart Browning and I were the guests, discussing the digital video revolution and the two film projects we’re working on with our production company On The Fence Films.

You can listen to the podcast at Dr. Helen or Glenn’s website InstaPundit, or you can grab the MP3 file directly.

17 November 2005 >> The iTunes Music Store now features the video podcast for Brain Terminal. That means you can now access all the videos on this site without having to enter the podcast URL. If you have iTunes installed, this link will take you directly to the video podcast page. From there, you can download individual Brain Terminal videos for playback within iTunes or on your iPod. You can also find the podcast from within the iTunes Music Store by searching for “Evan Coyne Maloney.”

Once you find the video podcast page, you can click Subscribe to receive all future updates, or you can download individual videos by clicking Get Episode.

Assuming you have your iPod set to automatically copy all podcasts, the next time you sync your iPod, the videos that you’ve downloaded from the podcast will be copied to your iPod. Videos will appear in your iPod’s Video > Video Podcasts menu.

11 November 2005 @ 2:53PM >> Now you can watch all the Brain Terminal videos on your iPod! More >>

7 November 2005 @ 10:55AM >> British news outlet Sky News will be running a segment on my documentary efforts. I will be participating in a live interview by satellite from New York, and the segment may also include clips from Brainwashing 101 and the unreleased Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester.

The piece will be broadcast during the 8PM-9PM hour, London time. (The producers currently expect it to air around 8:30, but these things sometimes have a way of shifting around at the last minute.)

23 October 2005 >> I am very honored to announce that Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester was selected as the Best Short Film of 2005 by the jurors of the Liberty Film Festival. This year, Liberty awarded prizes for submitted films in only two categories, Best Short and Best Feature, so it was quite flattering to have been selected.

Although there are no plans to release Brainwashing 201 as a stand-alone film, much of the material will be included in the upcoming feature-length film Indoctrinate U, which we hope to complete in early 2006.

11 October 2005 @ 10:31AM >> At the Liberty Film Festival in Los Angeles later this month, On The Fence Films will be premiering our new short film—Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester—on opening night (Friday, October 21st).

This film, an interim release before our feature-length Indoctrinate U is complete, contains new footage chronicling more outrages within higher education. People with high blood pressure or heart problems may wish to consult a physician prior to viewing.

Note that we do not currently plan on releasing Brainwashing 201 online, so the Liberty Film Festival may be your only chance to see it.

Liberty will also be screening my short video Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution.

24 August 2005 @ 3:08PM >> The American Film Renaissance festival, which I attended last year, is now holding a screenwriting contest. The theme is “The Art of Freedom,” and the winner will walk away with a cool $2,000. Not bad!

18 August 2005 @ 5:27PM >> Several people have asked for scanned copies of last weekend’s Daily Telegraph profile, the text of which I posted earlier this week. Now that I have a copy of the paper myself, I was able to do so:

“Meet the Right-wing Michael Moore” by Damian Thompson (The Daily Telegraph, London, 13 August 2005) [4.2MB, PDF file]

In the interest of symmetry, I also scanned the New York Sun profile that ran earlier this year:

“A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore” by Jacob Gershman (The New York Sun, 21 January 2005) [7.1MB, PDF file]

Note: You may need to zoom in when viewing the PDF files; the newspaper text appears very small unless zoomed.

13 August 2005 @ 6:18PM >> Today’s (Saturday) edition of the London Telegraph has a profile of me by Damian Thompson. Unfortunately, it is not available on their website, so I can’t link to it. I haven’t seen it yet, either, but I’ve been getting some encouraging e-mails. To the newfound visitors from the UK, welcome!

Update: Thanks to some helpful British readers, I now have the text of the Telegraph profile and have posted it online.

3 August 2005 @ 7:14PM >> Tomorrow evening, I’ll be a guest on “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle“, which runs on Comcast cable’s CN8 news network. We’ll be discussing Ed Klein’s book about Hillary Clinton.

If you are a Comcast customer living in the northeast and want to watch, tune to channel 8 from 9:00PM - 10:00PM ET.

26 May 2005 @ 11:01AM >> A number of people have been asking about the follow-up to Brainwashing 101, the 46-minute documentary on political correctness released as a preview last fall. By the end of this year, On The Fence Films will complete Indoctrinate U, the feature-length follow-up to Brainwashing 101. When it’s out, you’ll be able to see why I’ve been threatened with arrest on multiple campuses, including my own alma mater, Bucknell University. More >>

8 April 2005 @ 3:48PM >> This Sunday at 7:00PM, Brainwashing 101 will be screened at Princeton University in the Frist Campus Center, Room 302. The event, sponsored by the College Republicans and the Princeton Tory, is free and open to the public. I will be on hand for the screening and will answer questions afterwards.