The United States, race, religion and party politics are recurring subjects in Dinesh D'Souza's conservative commentary and cultural criticism. Illiberal Education criticises campus approaches to multiculturalism and affirmative action, while What's So Great About America defends American political and cultural institutions against several lines of criticism. Later books, including The Big Lie and United States of Socialism, make more overtly partisan claims about contemporary political opponents and historical movements. D'Souza's prose is polemical, accessible and built to persuade rather than to provide a neutral survey of scholarship. Useful discovery categories include conservative commentary, culture-war writing and US political debate. Readers should treat stronger historical and political claims as contested arguments and compare them with independent scholarship, especially where the books make broad claims about parties, ideology or twentieth-century history. Read more Less