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Last week a real-life version of Pryor's comedy sketch was played out among a rarefied band of right-wing intellectuals. At its center: Dinesh D'Souza, a 34-year-old Indian-born conservative wunderkind who has made a name for himself by bashing women, gays and minorities ever since he presided over the Dartmouth Review, a fecklessly racist student publication, in the early '80s. Today he is a case study in assimilation through bigotry, an ambitious immigrant who has achieved minor celebrity in his new homeland--and a sort of honorary status as a white man--by taking...
...Souza's latest manifesto, The End of Racism, is one of the creepiest books to appear in recent years. Even more than D'Souza's previous book, Illiberal Education, which savaged the campus vogue of multiculturalism, it contains so much sophistry, half-baked erudition and small-minded zealotry that even right-wingers who share many of D'Souza's ideas are outraged by its, well, political incorrectness...
...year line of dark sci-fi films; imagine Blade Runner inside a Tron video game. For another, the movie tries for the same combination of facetiousness and majesty that Batman Forever mined only two weeks before. Dredd, written by Michael De Luca, William Wisher and Steven de Souza, plays like an instant clone of the Gotham Gothic...
...course, it can. This time Axel is investigating a gang of counterfeiters operating out of an L.A. theme park, meant to suggest Disneyland. The mystery is minimal, just an excuse to get everybody on the rides. Steven E. de Souza's script is not so much written as constructed -- boom boom here, bang bang there. John Landis' direction consists mostly of just running the camera...
...western classics in the main tend to be politically incorrect." D'Souza said, "Bogus multicultural readings [those that are specifically selected to conform to popular views] reflect less of a true heritage of the Non-western world...