Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposé Illiberal Education. Now after serving as a Reagan White House staffer the managing editor of Policy Review and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution he addresses the next generation in Letters to a Young Conservative. Drawing on his own colorful experiences both within the conservative world and while skirmishing with the left D'Souza aims to enlighten and inspire young conservatives and give them weapons for the intellectual battles that they face in high school college and everyday life. Letters to a Young Conservative also illuminates the enduring themes that for D'Souza anchor the conservative position: not "family values" or patriotism but a philosophy based on natural rights and a belief in universal moral truths.With a light touch D'Souza shows that conservatism needn't be stodgy or defensive even though it is based on preserving the status quo. To the contrary when a conservative has to expose basic liberal assumptions to scrutiny he or she must become a kind of imaginative fun-loving forward-looking guerrilla--philosophically conservative but temperamentally radical.Among the topics Dinesh D'Souza covers in Letters to a Young Conservative: Fighting Political CorrectnessAuthentic vs. Bogus MulticulturalismWhy Government Is the ProblemWhen the Rich Get RicherHow Affirmative Action Hurts BlacksThe Feminist MistakeAll the News That FitsHow to Harpoon a LiberalThe Self-Esteem HoaxA Republican Realignment?Why Conservatives Should Be Cheerful
