ABSTRACT
Illiberal Education purports to be a critique of the "rhetorical excesses and coercive tactics of the Politically Correct" and of multicultural activists who have "split the university on moral grounds," producing balkanized tribal enclaves "without a shared commitment to the goals of liberal learning." Dinesh D'Souza has an embarrassingly naive vision of how the language and logics of representation work—his favorite terms are "resembles," "is representative of," "typical of," "typifies". D'Souza's ingenuous and precocious schoolboy style, his "Look, the emperor has no clothes" straining for his employer's approval, is a style well suited to entertaining the Washington Press Clubs in which he currently appears to spend so much of his time. D'Souza has so thoroughly obfuscated his conservative agendas behind a rhetorical stance purportedly defending the values of liberal education that it is hard to know where he really stands.
