>From the Publisher
Is "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.