by Dinesh D'Souza
"The most extensive critical study yet made of an academic convulsion . . agree with it or not, Illiberal Education deserves serious attention." - C. Vann Woodward, The New York Times Review of BooksIs "Political 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. "Compelling... this courageous book ought to be required reading across the political spectrum." - Washington Post Book WorldSynopsis As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), Illiberal Education "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork) Is "political correctness" chilling freedom of thought and speech on American campuses today? Illiberal Education, by a former White House domestic political analyst, is a hugely controversial, powerful polemic about the most important and divisive issue in American education today. (Education) A former White House domestic policy analyst addresses the issue of "Political Correctness" on university campuses, charging schools with imposing their own political ideals on admissions, hiring, and curriculum decisions.
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