D'Souza, Dinesh. Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus.
New York: Vintage Books, 1992. 319 pages.
Dinesh D'Souza began his career as a critic of liberal multiculturalism
and "political correctness" by co-founding and editing the Dartmouth Review
while he was an undergraduate there from 1979-1983. The next two years he
attended Princeton and edited an alumni magazine started by conservatives.
After Princeton he was the managing editor of the Heritage Foundation's
theoretically-inclined Policy Review. In 1987 he became a domestic policy
analyst for the White House, and then a research fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute. Throughout his career he has been supported by
conservative money, particularly the John M. Olin Foundation.
It's embarrassing to the PC left that D'Souza is also a "person of
color" (he's a native of India). This opened doors during his visits to six
universities to collect data and interviews concerning issues of race and
sex, how they have become institutionalized in course content, speech codes,
and preferential admissions, and the effect this has had on attitudes and
campus life. If liberals dared to sidestep the conventional PC wisdom and
give this book a chance, many of them would be amazed to discover that it
is tightly argued and compelling.
ISBN 0-679-73857-6
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