Letters to a Young ConservativeAmong the topics Dinesh D'Souza covers in Letters to a Young Conservative: -- Fighting Political Correctness -- Authentic vs. Bogus Multiculturalism -- Why Government Is the Problem -- When the Rich Get Richer -- How Affirmative Action Hurts Blacks -- The Feminist Mistake -- All the News That Fits -- How to Harpoon a Liberal -- The Self-Esteem Hoax -- A Republican Realignment? -- Why Conservatives Should Be Cheerful |
Contents
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Fighting Political Correctness | 35 |
Authentic vs Bogus Multiculturalism | 45 |
Whats So Great About Great Books | 55 |
How Reagan Outsmarted the Liberals | 61 |
The Feminist Mistake | 101 |
Who Are the Postmodernists? | 107 |
Why Professors Are So LeftWing | 113 |
All the News That Fits | 117 |
A Living Constitution? | 123 |
More Guns Less Crime | 131 |
How to Harpoon a Liberal | 135 |
Lies My Teacher Taught Me | 145 |
Why Government Is the Problem | 77 |
When the Rich Get Richer | 85 |
How Affirmative Action Hurts Blacks | 91 |
Was Lincoln a Bad Guy? | 149 |
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Page 153 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 153 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 61 - I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of Evening that swing between the stronglimbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension.
Page 127 - For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it may have had in a world that is dead and gone...
Page 108 - Sa ("signifiant") is such a knot with a positive philosophic yield. Yet because of the equivocal, echo-nature of language, even identities or homophonies sound on: the sound of Sa is knotted with that of qa, as if the text were signaling its intention to bring Hegel, Saussure, and Freud together.
Page 153 - For a quarter of a century it has borne the brunt of a hurricane as fierce and pitiless as ever raged. At the North and in Europe, they cried ' Havoc !' and let loose upon us all the dogs of w ar.
Page 57 - ... greatest minds to whom we ought to listen are by no means exclusively the greatest minds of the West. It is merely an unfortunate necessity which prevents us from listening to the greatest minds of India and of China: we do not understand their languages, and we cannot learn all languages. To repeat, liberal education consists in listening to the conversation among the greatest minds. But here we are confronted with the overwhelming difficulty that this conversation does not take place without...