Liberal Thoughts on Illiberal Education

Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education has predictably stirred the academic community with debates that are likely to sharpen. Meanwhile, the assumptions shared by its proponents and critics deserve to be examined more closely than the initial flurry of controversy allowed. The book and its thesis also need to be placed in the larger context of issues, facts, and trends that American scholars and administrators have debated for some time. This review takes such a second look at D’Souza’s challenging work.