My Chat with Bestselling Author Dinesh D‘Souza (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_302)

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Topics covered include the promise of America, Ronald Reagan versus Barack Obama, Nicki Minaj versus Joy Reid, tips for good writing, career pivots, interdisciplinary pursuits, practical knowledge, academia and the ivory tower, postmodernism, personal regrets, Regnery Publishing, nature versus nurture, Darwinian literary criticism, and the miracle of the Ancient Greeks. _______________________________________ Dinesh D'Souza is a former policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He served as President of King’s College for two years, and is the author of 15+ books including several NYT bestsellers. His books include Illiberal Education (1991); The End of Racism (1995); Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997); The Virtue of Prosperity (2000); What’s So Great About America (2002); What’s So Great About Christianity (2008); The Roots of Obama’s Rage (2010); Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream (2012); and America: Imagine a World Without Her (2014). He has been a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Finally, he has released several successful documentaries including Michael Moore Hates America (2004); 2016: Obama’s America (2012); and Hillarys America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016). _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier today (October 15, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1318: https://youtu.be/CqU5sI1UDyU _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody continuing the long list of fantastic guests on my show I've got another
0:06.6	fantastic guest today. Dinesh Desusa is one of the most prolific scholars if not in the United States anywhere I was trying to prepare
0:15.2	my introduction and I stopped counting at around 13 or 14 books can you tell us what is the actual
0:21.1	official count dinesh?
0:22.8	Gosh God I'm not positive, but I think it's somewhere around 17 or 18 books.
0:28.3	I've sort of lost count.
0:29.5	I think I've become a little bit of a windbag with no sign of stopping, so I'm a little bit of a windbag with no sign of stopping so I'm starting to pick up a new one even now but no
0:38.0	the books have been my bread and butter since I left the Reagan White House so this was at the very end of the Reagan years, and I went to the American Enterprise Institute, I decided, look, instead of being just a journalist, I'll try to be an author and develop a kind of field of interest.
0:54.8	And my topic has been largely speaking America
0:58.5	in various phases and dimensions of it,
1:01.1	the economic side, the political side. I wrote a book on Reagan. So that's
1:06.0	been perhaps the unifying theme of my work, although I've done forays also in the Christian apologetics.
1:11.1	Well, there you go. That's probably my most empty book of all
1:13.8	thank you so much for sending it to me what the hell is going on we don't judge the
1:19.0	books by the the number of inches of its width but what the hell man I mean what is going by the
1:25.0	way thank you very much for the lovely inscription inside that was very kind of
1:27.8	you let me just mention for those of you who may not know all of I'm not going to
1:32.4	mention everything I'll take a whole
1:33.4	hour you're a Dartmouth college alumnus you may or may not know that I was a
1:38.4	visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and I did not know that. That is cool.
1:44.0	Yeah, 2002, so way, way after you had finished, so we certainly didn't overlap.
1:49.0	I'm a bit younger than you, but I had a great time, although I found that, you you know I didn't like MS and PhD at Cornell ifica is a small town
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