Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

==Early life and career==
[[File:Ronald Reagan and Dinesh D'Souza.jpg|thumb|D'Souza greeting [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1988]]
Dinesh Joseph D'Souza<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201222232/http://www.reaganlibrary.gov/white-house-staff-and-office-files-1981-1989-8-595-i-ft/9993-koch-1|archive-date=February 1, 2014|title=Koch, Kathleen D.: Files, 1984–1988 Reagan Library Collections |publisher=Reagan Library|access-date=December 13, 2018|url=http://www.reaganlibrary.gov/white-house-staff-and-office-files-1981-1989-8-595-i-ft/9993-koch-1}}</ref> was born in [[Bombay]], India in 1961. D'Souza grew up in a middle-class family; his parents were [[Konkani people|Konkani]] [[Goan Catholics|Roman Catholics from the state of Goa]] in [[Western India]], where his father was an executive with [[Johnson & Johnson]] and his mother was a housewife.<ref>{{cite book|first=J. Clement|last=Vaz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DJLxYBYA-YC&pg=PA332|title=Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=1997|isbn=978-81-7022-619-2|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="vf">{{cite magazine|last=Peretz|first=Evgenia|date=April 13, 2015|title=Dinesh D'Souza's life after conviction|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=June 18, 2018|archive-date=April 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411221652/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Helen|last1=Zia|first2=Susan B.|last2=Gall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hI_iWTpKNg8C&q=%22johnson%20and%20johnson%22|title=Notable Asian Americans|year=1995|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-9623-4|via=Google Books}}</ref> D'Souza attended the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[St. Stanislaus High School]] in Bombay.<ref>{{cite news|first=Chidanand|last=Rajghatta|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-29/news/33476254_1_anti-obama-anti-obama-documentary-obama-s-rage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901080856/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-29/news/33476254_1_anti-obama-anti-obama-documentary-obama-s-rage|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 1, 2012|title=Indian-American scholar's anti-Obama film storms US box-office|newspaper=The Economic Times|date=August 29, 2012|access-date=February 1, 2018}}</ref> He graduated from high school in 1976 and attended [[Sydenham College]] in Bombay for [[Higher Secondary Certificate|year 11 and 12]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stanislites.org/alumni/content/dinesh-dsouza|title=Dinesh D'Souza biography|publisher=St. Stanislaus Ex-Students Association|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704041917/http://stanislites.org/alumni/content/dinesh-dsouza|archive-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref> In 1978, D'Souza became a foreign-exchange student and traveled to the United States under the [[Rotary Youth Exchange]], attending [[Patagonia Union High School]] in [[Patagonia, Arizona]]. He went on to matriculate at [[Dartmouth College]], where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in English in 1983 and was a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=746|title=Person Detail: Dinesh D'Souza|publisher=[[Independent Institute]]|access-date=August 17, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527105052/http://independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=746|archive-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref>

While at Dartmouth, D'Souza wrote for ''[[The Dartmouth Review]]'', an independent, student-edited, alumni- and [[Collegiate Network]]-subsidized publication.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Dartmouth Review » About|url=http://www.dartreview.com/about/|website=www.dartreview.com|access-date=November 5, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107025802/http://www.dartreview.com/about/|archive-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> D'Souza faced criticism during his time at ''The Review'' for authoring an article publicly outing homosexual members of the school's Gay–Straight Alliance student organization.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/05/jaden-young-fraught-history|title=The fraught history of LGBT performance at the College|newspaper=[[The Dartmouth]]|date=May 24, 2017|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=February 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211223920/http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/05/jaden-young-fraught-history|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="MotherJones" /> He also oversaw ''The Review''<nowiki/>'s publication of "a light-hearted interview" with a former leader of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] over a staged photograph of a black person hanged from a tree, as well as a piece mocking affirmative action in higher education that written from the point of view of a black student and phrased in [[Ebonics (word)|Ebonics]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name="MotherJones" /> These incidents caused U.S. Representative [[Jack Kemp]], then a prominent Republican leader and member of ''The Review''<nowiki/>'s advisory board, to resign from the board.<ref name="MotherJones">{{Cite web |last=Corn |first=David |title=Remember how Dinesh D'Souza outed gay classmates and thought it was awesome? |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/dinesh-dsouza-indictment-dartmouth-outed-gay-classmates/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011608/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/dinesh-dsouza-indictment-dartmouth-outed-gay-classmates/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

After graduating from Dartmouth, D'Souza became editor of a monthly journal called ''The Prospect'', a publication financed by a group of [[Princeton University]] alumni. The paper and its writers ignited much controversy during D'Souza's editorship by, among other things, criticizing the college's [[affirmative-action]] policies.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/29/nyregion/critical-monthly-rouses-princeton.html|title=Critical Monthly Rouses Princeton|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 29, 1984|access-date=June 29, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524161032/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/29/nyregion/critical-monthly-rouses-princeton.html|archive-date=May 24, 2015}}</ref>

From 1985 to 1987, D'Souza was contributing editor for the ''[[Policy Review]]'', a journal then published by [[The Heritage Foundation]] in Washington, D.C. In a September 1985 article titled "The Bishops as Pawns", D'Souza asserted that [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic bishops in the United States]] were being manipulated by [[Liberalism in the United States|American liberals]] in agreeing to oppose the U.S. military buildup and use of power abroad when, D'Souza believed, they knew very little about these subjects to which they were lending their religious credibility.<ref>{{cite news|last=D'Souza|first=Dinesh|date=July 1997|title=20 years of 'Policy Review'|work=[[Policy Review]]|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3647/is_199707/ai_n8783155/pg_2|access-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016104155/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3647/is_199707/ai_n8783155/pg_2|archive-date=October 16, 2007}}</ref>

Between 1987 and 1988,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dailybruin.com/2018/02/01/former-reagan-adviser-encourages-political-debate-among-students|title=Former Reagan adviser encourages political debate among students|work=Daily Bruin|first=Megana|last=Sekar|date=February 1, 2018|access-date=June 18, 2024|archive-date=December 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214185431/https://dailybruin.com/2018/02/01/former-reagan-adviser-encourages-political-debate-among-students|url-status=live}}</ref> D'Souza was a policy adviser in the administration of President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name="NYT-2010-09-25">{{cite news|first=Tim|last=Arango|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/business/media/25forbes.html|title=Forbes Article Spurs Media Soul Searching|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 24, 2010|access-date=September 7, 2012|archive-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614201430/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/business/media/25forbes.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> He has been affiliated with the [[American Enterprise Institute]] and the [[Hoover Institution]] at [[Stanford University]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|date=2018-02-22|title=Who is Dinesh D'Souza and why is he in the news?|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/who-is-dinesh-dsouza-and-why-is-he-in-the-news/article22826220.ece|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603041605/https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/who-is-dinesh-dsouza-and-why-is-he-in-the-news/article22826220.ece|archive-date=2021-06-03|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":102">{{Cite web|last=Matthews|first=Dylan|date=2014-10-08|title=Dinesh D'Souza, America's greatest conservative troll, explained|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/10/8/6936717/dinesh-dsouza-explained|access-date=2021-10-03|website=Vox|language=en|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003153208/https://www.vox.com/2014/10/8/6936717/dinesh-dsouza-explained|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1991, D'Souza became a [[Naturalization|naturalized]] United States citizen.<ref name="reuters1">{{cite news|last=Stempel|first=Jonatan|date=September 10, 2014|title=U.S. seeks up to 16 months in prison for Dinesh D'Souza|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSKBN0H52GL20140910|url-status=live|access-date=December 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924204337/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSKBN0H52GL20140910|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref> He renounced Indian citizenship, as [[Indian nationality law|India's nationality law]] does not recognize [[Multiple citizenship|dual citizenship]].