From Slate's Tim Noah, we learn of what should be one of the more controversial political books of 2007:
Dinesh D'Souza, the Rishwain Research Scholar at Stanford's Hoover Institution, will this January publish "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility For 9/11"... D'Souza's book, we are told, "uncovers the links between the spread of American pop culture, leftist ideas, and secular values, and the rise of anti-Americanism throughout the world."D'Souza's argument is merely a right-wing version of the self-hating left-wing argument that "they hate us, because there's something wrong with us." What he seems to be advocating, in fact, is appeasement of the terrorists. If we give them what they want- less decadence, less sexual freedom, more modesty- they'll leave us alone. And by blaming the left for the terrorists' anger at America, he also contradicts the general righty talking point of the day that the left and the terrorists are really one and the same. How this is any more right than the left-wing version of appeasement, I fail to see.
So in writing this book, D'Souza has combined the most loathsome post-9/11 reactions imagine from both the left and the right. Can't wait to read it!
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 7, 2006 04:40 PM