Word: souza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Putnam only last Friday, at Widener's monthly sale of used books and records. I'd never heard of him; there was no reason I should have, although I'm pretty familiar with what's being written and said these days by Allan Bloom, George Will, and Dinesh D'Souza...
...Dinesh D'Souza's book Illiberal Education hovers high on the best-seller lists. Its keynote is the dire warning that "an academic and cultural revolution is under way at American universities...the fruit of a coherent ideology that seeks to thrust the university into the vanguard of social reform and establish a model 'multicultural community...
...Souza describes a climate of "campus orthodoxy," quoting professors who say they do not dare to speak openly on racial issues. Meanwhile, Newsweek runs a cover story decrying "PC Thought Control." The New Republic calls multiculturalism "one of the most destructive and demeaning orthodoxies of our time...
Thirty years ago, Putnam dwelt on a few professors who felt they couldn't speak freely. He ignored the young activists locked up without trial in a Jackson jail. Today, D'Souza dwells on a few students and professors at a few colleges who feel they can't speak freely. He ignores the founding of a "White Students Association" at Temple University, the race riots at UMass, the fraternity t-shirts at Syracuse whose slogan is "Club faggots, not seals...
...figures involved are different, of course. Putnam's heroes were unabashed racists who probably did face repression on some campuses. D'Souza's heroes are professors like Stephan Thernstrom, who are simply too cowardly to stand up to legitimate criticism of their scholarship, preferring to cancel their courses and then complain of "though control...