Argues that university affirmative action and related programs have only encouraged divisions and the loss of individual liberty
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itical Correctness" chilling freedom of thought and speech on American campuses today? Is multicultural activism splitting the university on moral grounds, creating not a truly diverse community but balkanized tribal enclaves?
Based on extensive research at six major universities, Illiberal Education is a hugely controversial, powerful polemic that examines the most important and divisive questions confronting American education today. Dinesh D'Souza argues that by charging universities with being "structurally" racist, sexist, and class-biased, a coalition of student activists, junior faculty, and compliant administrators have imposed their own political ideals on admissions, hiring, curriculum, and even personal conduct, while eschewing the goals of liberal education.
"The Most Extensive Critical Study Yet Made Of An Academic Convulsion...Agree With It Or Not, [This Book] Deserves Serious Attention." -- C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review Of Books
"Compelling...this courageous book ought to be required reading across the political spectrum." -- Washington Post Book World
"An informative account that provides a rare combination of tough-minded analysis, principled judgments, thoughtful proposals and a humane sensitivity." -- Eugene Genovese
"A brisk, hard-hitting...journalistic tour through the political land mines embedded these days in higher education." -- Wall Street Journal
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