Mr. Dinesh D'Souza is Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the former John M. Olin Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and has served as senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan White House from 1987 to 1988. He is the best-selling author of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus and The End of Racism. His other works include Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary President and most recently The Moral Conundrum of Success: Searching for Values in an Age of Prosperity and Technology.Mr. D'Souza is one of the most visible critics of multiculturalism and political correctness in America today. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and speaks frequently to campus audiences. His articles on culture and politics have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983, where he was editor of The Dartmouth Review.
In his most recent work, The Moral Conundrum of Success, Mr. D'Souza explores the social and moral consequences of the new wealth in America. He is also an expert on the tenets of western civilization which distinguishes it from other cultures, and why the American ideal has become so irresistible to immigrants and to people around the world.