The Roots of D'Souza's Rage

"Hart's brand of imperial nostalgia pervades the wider National Review conservatism that shaped D’Souza’s worldview. A foundational text in this weltanschauung is James Burnham's Suicide of the West (1964), which D'Souza cited in his book What’s So Great About America (2002). Thematically, Burnham pioneered many of the themes D'Souza has expanded upon in books like The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010) and Obama’s America (2012): the insidiousness of white liberal guilt in disarming the West, the underappreciated virtues of imperialism and manifest destiny, the need to affirm the unequivocal cultural superiority of Western civilization. Among the founding editors of National Review, Burnham was second only to William F. Buckley in importance. His book is key to understanding the contradictions of D'Souza's role in the conservative movement as a non-white advocate for 'the West.'"


In The New Republic, Jeet Heer investigates Dinesh D'Souza's pro-colonialist mindset.


And in New York, Jonathan Chait investigates Rudolph Giuliani.


As does Ezra Klein at Vox.


William Saletan in Slate argues that Obama's real enemies are Republicans.