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Dinesh D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor’s Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named Dinesh D'Souza one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists Dinesh D'Souza as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited Dinesh D'Souza as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans.
Before joining the Hoover Institution, Dinesh D'Souza was the John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1987-88 Dinesh D'Souza served as senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. From 1985 to 1987 Dinesh D'Souza was managing editor of Policy Review. Dinesh D'Souza graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.
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Dinesh D'Souza (Dec 15, 2008)
I never knew Peter Singer could run so fast. The controversial bioethicist is originally from Australia, and I hear that they breed some good sprinters over there. Still,... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Nov 24, 2008)
Contemporary atheism marches behind the banner of science. It is perhaps no surprise that several leading atheists—from biologist Richard Dawkins to cognitive psychologist... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Oct 13, 2008)
Bill Maher is a very irritating fellow. Now surely he would say that he irritates people because he is so iconoclastic, shattering entrenched orthodoxies with his rapier... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Oct 06, 2008)
The presidential contest is not simply an election about who rules America; it is also an election about which set of principles defines American politics. For the past two... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 29, 2008)
In his debate with John McCain, Barack Obama's attempted to portray the Bush administration as a complete failure both in domestic and foreign policy. This argument,... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 22, 2008)
So isn't it interesting that we keep hearing about Sarah Palin's peccadilloes while the major media continues to ignore the George Obama scandal? Here is a guy living in... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 15, 2008)
Who Speaks for Islam, written by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, is one of the most important books on the War on Terror. In the seven years since 9/11, we have been... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 08, 2008)
The biggest scandal of the election campaign is going unreported, for the most part, by the mainstream newspapers and TV shows. Imagine if John McCain or Sarah Palin had a... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 01, 2008)
Who could not be moved at the sight of a major political party naming Barack Obama, an African American, as its presidential candidate? To me, there could not be a better... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 28, 2008)
I've been watching with patriotic interest the Olympic track and field events. And I notice something about the results that is both remarkable and fascinating. Even so, this... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 18, 2008)
When we think of the collapse of the Soviet Union, several names come to mind: Gorbachev, Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Margaret Thatcher, Vaclav Havel. But one... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 08, 2008)
Sigmund Freud is no longer the revered figure he once was. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education noted that Freud is no longer routinely assigned even in... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 28, 2008)
To listen to Richard Dawkins, or read his book The God Delusion, you would get the idea that belief in God is a dangerous delusion, even a kind of virus of the mind. ... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 21, 2008)
In my debate with atheist Christopher Hitchens in New York last October he raised a point that I did not know how to answer. So I employed an old debating strategy: I ignored... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 09, 2008)
Frankenstein's back, with a resounding endorsement of Barack Obama. I refer, of course, to the reemergence in public of former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jun 30, 2008)
Now that Barack Obama has pretty much wrapped up the nomination, it's time to raise a question that lots of people have been talking about privately but not publicly. Is it... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (May 19, 2008)
It is the essence of democracy that people should be able to decide the moral rules that govern the nature of a community. If people don't have that power, then they are... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (May 12, 2008)
Peter Singer is a calm, lucid and able debater, and our debate at Biola University in Los Angeles on April 25 was lively and hard-fought. Not for nothing is Singer considered... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (May 05, 2008)
Throughout his campaign Barack Obama has mocked his critics, noting that they just don't get what a novel figure and consistent unifier he has been for his whole life. "They... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 28, 2008)
While on the debating circuit pounding atheists--a pastime I am really getting to enjoy--I have just started reading Dalia Mogahed and John Esposito's Who Speaks for Islam:... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 21, 2008)
In Ben Stein's new film "Expelled," there is a great scene where Richard Dawkins is going on about how evolution explains everything. This is part of Dawkins' grand claim,... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 14, 2008)
The problem with evolution is not that it is unscientific but that it is routinely taught in textbooks and in the classroom in an atheist way. Textbooks frequently go beyond... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 07, 2008)
As a Christian, I believe that the universe and its living creatures are the products of intelligent design. This belief is not merely derived from theology but is also... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 31, 2008)
1. Obama's connection with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright makes him unelectable in the general election, even though neither he nor most of the pundits seem to have recognized... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 25, 2008)
Ironic, isn't it? Some conservatives have been calling for an inquiry into Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim connection--didn't he attend a madrassa in Indonesia?--when the... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 17, 2008)
The columnist Michael Kinsley once defined a "gaffe" as an occasion when a politician accidentally tells the truth. In our age of political correctness, some would place... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 10, 2008)
On Hannity & Colmes recently, conservative pundit Oliver North sought to portray Barack Obama as an "empty suit," at which point Democratic political strategist Bob Beckel... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 03, 2008)
William F. Buckley, Jr. is dead, and modern American conservatism has lost its chief intellectual spokesman and leader.
Buckley is one of the main reasons that I became a... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 25, 2008)
Imagine reading an article that began like this: "The New York Times has been rocked by reports that its coverage of the 2008 election has been sorely compromised by an... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 18, 2008)
Atheists can break out the champagne: there really are some wacky religious people out there. One of them seems to be Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury,. In a... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 11, 2008)
Pope Benedict has a favorite rabbi, none other than the distinguished Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner. At first glance this is a puzzle. Many years ago Neusner wrote a book... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 04, 2008)
Remember when John McCain was proclaimed politically dead? The pundits on the left--and even a few on the right--declared that McCain had sunk his promising candidacy by... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 28, 2008)
Two leftist organizations have released a study that claims that the Bush administration lied about Iraq. Somehow I think we've heard that one before. Well, the two... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 21, 2008)
If you haven’t yet seen my Cal Tech debate with atheist Michael Shermer—a debate held December 9 before an audience of more than a thousand—you can watch it at... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 14, 2008)
Isn't it remarkable that atheists, who did virtually nothing to oppose slavery, condemn Christians, who are the ones who abolished it?
Consider atheist Sam Harris, who... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 06, 2008)
Asked by a British member of Parliament if he is one of those atheists who wants to get rid of Christian symbols especially during the Christmas season, atheist Richard... more
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Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 02, 2008)
Commenting on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, I recently commented that there are three groups that oppose democracy in the Muslim world: the secular dictators like... more