Letters to a Young Conservative (The
Art of Mentoring) by Dinesh DSouza
Excellent Book
The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to
todays budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true radicals
of tomorrow Dinesh DSouza rose to national prominence as one of the
founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of
conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s. He fired the first
popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposŽ
Illiberal Education. Now, after serving as a Reagan White House staffer,
the managing editor of Policy Review, and a scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, he addresses the next
generation in Letters to a Young Conservative. Drawing on his own colorful
experiences, both within the conservative world and while skirmishing with
the left, DSouza aims to enlighten and inspire young conservatives and
give them weapons for the intellectual battles that they face in high school,
college, and everyday life. Letters to a Young Conservative also
illuminates the enduring themes that for DSouza anchor the conservative

position: not family values or patriotism, but a philosophy based on natural
rights and a belief in universal moral truths. With a light touch, DSouza
shows that conservatism neednt be stodgy or defensive, even though it is
based on preserving the status quo. To the contrary, when a conservative
has to expose basic liberal assumptions to scrutiny, he or she must
become a kind of imaginative, fun-loving, forward-looking guerrilla--
philosophically conservative but temperamentally radical. Among the
topics Dinesh DSouza 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
Personal Review: Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of
Mentoring) by Dinesh DSouza
Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the
Dartmouth Review during his days at the college, and subsequently
became a policy analyst for President Ronald Reagan. He is one of the
leaders of modern intellectual conservatism, much to the ire of old
Dartmouth alumni.
When I picked up "Letters to a Young Conservative", I described myself as
a "skeptical conservative". I supported private industry, but also liked
minimum wage; I supported tax cuts, but also wanted more welfare
spending; I opposed affirmative action, but only because it was being
mismanaged. In short, I liked both liberal ideals and conservative ideals,
and wanted to take both sides.
D'Souza destroyed my addiction to fence-hopping. He's an excellent, witty
writer; even the sections of the book which themes I took no interest in
prior, such as feminism, held my attention the whole time. I agreed with
every sentence, and only put the book down to get a drink.
Let me give you an example. Before, I was skeptical about President
Abraham Lincoln. I admired that he freed the slaves, but did not fancy the
fact that he was racist himself; or that his war efforts were so destructive;
or that he imprisoned so many people during wartime. In but maybe 20
pages, D'Souza turned me into an adamant fan of Lincoln.
Many conservatives are afraid to make the jump to the right-wing, because
they still have doubts in the back of their mind that maybe welfare is better
for society; that maybe affirmative action is necessary to end racial
disparity; that maybe gun control protects our freedoms. If you are one of
those, I strongly recommend you read this book to cross the chasm.
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