Dinesh D'Souza
American political commentary in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries drew heavily on writers and filmmakers willing to work across multiple formats — books, documentaries, and opinion journalism — to reach broad public audiences. Dinesh D'Souza, born on April 25, 1961, in Mumbai, is one such figure, an Indian-born American who has built a career spanning political science, journalism, film direction, and political commentary.
D'Souza was educated at St. Stanislaus School and Sydenham College in India before continuing his schooling in the United States, where he attended Patagonia Union High School in Arizona and later Dartmouth College. He went on to work as a writer, opinion journalist, political pundit, and film director, producing output across those overlapping roles while working in English. His commentary has been identified as right-wing in orientation, and he has been described as a conspiracy theorist, a characterization that has followed his public career alongside his work as a more conventional political commentator and filmmaker. He holds citizenship in both India and the United States, and his background as an immigrant who became a prominent voice in American conservative media is a recurring element of how his public persona has been framed.
D'Souza's work as a film director added a visual dimension to his political commentary, placing him among a small group of commentators who moved between the written word and documentary filmmaking. The Library of Congress Name Authority File records him under the authorized label "D'Souza, Dinesh, 1961-," reflecting the breadth of his documented output across writing and related fields.
Quotes by Dinesh D'Souza
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.
In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.
Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.
I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.