How Liberals Became Illiberal

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This is the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.

I am constantly struck as I look around me at the illiberal trends in American life

and American culture.

Part of the reason it's so striking and so disturbing is that America never used to

be like this.

For us, some people may say, well, my free speech is in threatened.

We recognize that in the racial context, but we seem not to recognize it in other contexts.

So how did America become so illiberal as it is today?

It never used to be and what makes all this particular ironic is the people promoting

the illiberalism used to be called and sometimes still are liberals.

The liberals are the ones who are illiberal and this forces us to think about what do we

mean by these terms liberal and illiberal.

Now I wrote a book almost 30 years ago, my first real major trade book called Illiberal

Education.

What I tried to show in that book was that liberals were becoming illiberal in the educational

context.

And so liberal education is about an openness to ideas, but universities were becoming

more close-minded.

Liberalism is about treating people equally without regard to race.

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