Dinesh D'Souza

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Dinesh D'Souza (2012)

Dinesh D'Souza (born April 25, 1961 in Bombay , India ) is an Indian-born American author, filmmaker and conservative political commentator.

Life

D'Souza was born in Bombay in 1961, where he attended St. Stanislaus Catholic High School and Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. In 1978 he came to the United States as an exchange student. He received his BA in English Language Literature from Dartmouth College in 1983 .

From 1987 to 1988 he was political advisor to the Ronald Reagan administration . In 1991 he received American citizenship. D'Souza was a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . Since August 25, 2010, he has been President of King's College in New York. D'Souza, who was separated from his wife, announced his resignation on October 18, 2012 after a press report alleged that he was in an extramarital relationship.

In January 2014, D'Souza was charged with making illegal party donations through two friends. In May of the same year, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years probation, eight months in a community detention center, and a fine of $ 30,000 in the federal district court for the southern borough of New York. Harvard professor Alan M. Dershowitz accused the prosecutor of "selective indictments" that had something to do with D'Souza's political criticism of Obama. In 2018 he was pardoned by US President Donald Trump .

The Enemy at Home

D'Souza is the author of the book The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 (Eng .: "The Enemy Inside: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 "). In this book he attacks the American left and assumes that they are responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, insofar as they are responsible for the fact that Islamists hate the USA. In the same book, D'Souza says that the conditions in the Abu Ghraib torture prison correspond to the standards of middle-class Middle Eastern hotels in terms of food and cleanliness. Michiko Kakutani called the book "absurd" in her review for the New York Times and called D'Souza an " Ann Coulter of think tanks".

Documentaries

D'Souza is the director and screenwriter of the 2016 documentary : Obama's America , in which he claims that Obama wants to reduce US influence. This film received a lot of negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes recorded 74 percent negative reviews. Metacritic recorded a user score of 6.4 out of 10. Andy Webster, critic of the New York Times , believes that D'Souza had failed with his film. Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press found that the film's justification for Obama's alleged worldview was purely subjective and implausible.

Michael O'Sullivan of the Washington Post thought the film was an unreflective, one-sided scare tactic. The film received praise from John Fund , journalist for the conservative National Review : D'Souza's film deserves to be taken seriously.

In 2016, D'Souza released Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party , a film about Hillary Clinton , the Democratic presidential candidate, in which he deals with the history of the Democratic Party, its support for slavery and its racist positions in the 19th century . and the beginning of the 20th century. While film critics judged the work negatively, Donald Trump called on his supporters during the election campaign to watch the film. It became one of the most successful documentaries of the year. The film was awarded the Golden Raspberry in 2017 for the worst film . D'Souza received the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor and for Worst Director . The film also got another Worst Screenplay nomination .

In 2018 came the documentary Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? into the cinemas, which deals with the history of the Democratic Party , which had long sympathized with racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan . D'Souza examines the Democratic Party's views on the race issue and its policies of discrimination against African-Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as its relations with the National Socialists.

Works

  • Falwell, Before the Millennium: A Critical Biography . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 1984, ISBN 0-89526-607-5 .
  • The Catholic Classics , 1986, ISBN 0-87973-545-7 .
  • My Dear Alex: Letters From The KGB (with Gregory Fossedal). Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 1987, ISBN 0-89526-576-1 .
  • Illiberal Education . 1991, ISBN 0-684-86384-7 .
  • The End of Racism . 1995, ISBN 0-684-82524-4 .
  • Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader . 1997, ISBN 0-684-84823-6 .
  • The Virtue of Prosperity . 2000, ISBN 0-684-86815-6 .
  • What's So Great About America . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2002, ISBN 0-89526-153-7 .
  • Letters to a Young Conservative . 2002, ISBN 0-465-01734-7 .
  • The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 . 2007, ISBN 0-385-51012-8 .
  • What's So Great About Christianity . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2007, ISBN 1-59698-517-8 .
  • The Roots of Obama's Rage . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2010, ISBN 1-59698-625-5 .
  • Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party . Broadside Books, 2015, ISBN 0062366718 .
  • The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left , Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2017, ISBN 978-1621573487 .

Web links

Commons : Dinesh D'Souza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dinesh D'Souza: The non-issue ( English ) The King's College. August 31, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2010. Retrieved on October 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Dinesh D'Souza Named President of The King's College in NYC ( English ) The King's College. August 23, 2010. Archived from the original on September 5, 2010. Retrieved on October 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2014/01/review-alumnus-debates-60s-radical-dartmouth
  4. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSKCN0HI23820140923
  5. ↑ Dershowitz Says D'Souza Case 'Smacks of Selective Prosecution' . The Wall Street Journal, accessed August 18, 2018
  6. ↑ Thorsten Denkler: Grace to the corrupt. In: SZ.de . June 3, 2018, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Review in the NY Times
  8. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/books/06kaku.html
  9. ^ Fund, John: What Obama Has in Store for Us . In: National Review Online , August 4, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012. 
  10. ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/2016_obamas_america/
  11. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/movie/2016-obamas-america
  12. ^ Movie Review, Documentary Exploring Obama's Political Roots 2016: Obama's America, The New York Times . August 13, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012. 
  13. ↑ Beth Fouhy: FACT CHECK: “Anti-colonial” Obama not plausible , Associated Press, August 28, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  14. ↑ In 2016 , Obama is fear itself Michael O'Sullivan Friday, August 24, 2012 Washington Post
  15. ↑ nationalreview.com
  16. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/hillarys-america-travels-through-time-and-finds-the-democratic-party-to-blame/2016/07/21/5152a75c-4ac1-11e6 -90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html
  17. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/movies/hillarys-america-dinesh-dsouza-review.html?_r=1
  18. ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/07/24/hillarys-america-documentary-cracks-top-10-box-office/87506198/
  19. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hillarysamerica.htm
personal data
SURNAME D'Souza, Dinesh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-born American author, filmmaker, and conservative political commentator
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay , India