Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1994. [Vol. 2.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 22)
BOOK REVIEWS - John C. Chalberg: Dinesh D'Souza: Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. The Free Press, 1991. 319 pp
JOHN C. CHALBERG DINESH D'SOUZA: ILLIBERAL EDUCATION: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND SEX ON CAMPUS. The Free Press, 1991. 319 pp. Reform in higher education is not the exclusive province of countries formerly within the sphere of the former Soviet Union. In the United States reform-minded, even revolutionary, changes are well underway, perhaps already imbedded in, some universities. In fact, such changes are a part of the fabric of academic life in elite American universities, universities which reformers in central and Eastern Europe might be inclined to employ as models for carrying out their own agendas for change in higher education. Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Michigan, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley. All are among the elite of the elite universities in the United States. Any educational reformer in Hungary, Poland, or Czechoslovakia could be excused for being automatically tempted to look to them for academic leadership. But if Dinesh D'Souza is even partially correct, such temptations ought to be universally resisted. A native of India and a 1983 graduate of Dartmouth College, D'Souza is not far removed from his days as an American undergraduate. Despite his relative youth, he has already cultivated a deep interest in the condition of higher education in the United States —and a reputation for clear thinking in some very muddy ideological waters. In prose that belies his evidence D'Souza reveals what ideology has wrought in the name of what was once "liberal education." Calmly, 159
