The thing about God and Man at Yale is.. it’s terrible. It’s clearly the work of a novice writer with a polemic to make—facts, nuance, and context be damned. It doesn’t just attack ideas but indicidual people, & caricatures them mercilessly.
It ends with an appeal to conservative trustees to rein in the supposedly communist faculty (they were not, in fact, communists). No wonder it was denounced by actual academics.
But that, of course, is the perpetual trap laid by conservative populists. Actual intellectual critique—as D’Souza knows so well—is only further proof for readers of the original thesis. It’s not a debate on the level.
