He also oversaw the Review's publication of 'a light-hearted interview' with a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan over a staged photograph of a Black person hung from a tree and a piece mocking affirmative action in higher education, written from the point of view of a Black student and phrased in Ebonics. 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. While at Dartmouth, D'Souza wrote for The Dartmouth Review, an independent, student-edited, alumni and Collegiate Network subsidized publication.

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. In 1978, D'Souza became a foreign exchange student and traveled to the United States under the Rotary Youth Exchange and attended the local public school in Patagonia, Arizona. He graduated in 1976 and completed his 11th and 12th years at Sydenham College, also in Bombay. D'Souza grew up in a middle-class family his parents were 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. 5 Campaign finance violation, felony guilty plea, conviction, and pardonĭ'Souza greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1988ĭinesh Joseph D'Souza was born in Bombay in 1961.2.3 Media appearances and speaking engagements.2.2.4 Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (2018).2.2.3 Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016).2.2.2 America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014).2.1.6 The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.2.1.5 America: Imagine the World Without Her.2.1.3 The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11.2 Career as author, political commentator, and filmmaker.In 2018, D'Souza was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump. He was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house near his home in San Diego, five years' probation, and a $30,000 fine. Two years later, D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a ' straw donor' to make the illegal campaign contribution. At the time, the Election Act limited campaign contributions to $5,000 from any individual to any one candidate. He directed two other people to give Long a total of $20,000 in addition, which he agreed to reimburse, and later did. In 2012, D'Souza contributed $10,000 to the Senate campaign of Wendy Long on behalf of himself and his wife, agreeing in writing to attribute that contribution as $5,000 from his wife and $5,000 from him. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City, until he resigned after an alleged adultery scandal. He was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. īorn in Bombay, D'Souza moved to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. D'Souza's films and commentary have generated considerable controversy due to their promotion of conspiracy theories and falsehoods, as well as for their incendiary nature. He has since released five other conspiracy theory documentary films: America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014), Hillary's America (2016), Death of a Nation (2018), Trump Card (2020) and 2000 Mules (2022). In 2012, D'Souza released the documentary film 2016: Obama's America, an anti- Barack Obama polemic based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage it earned $33 million, making it the highest-grossing conservative documentary of all time and one of the highest-grossing documentaries of any kind.

D'Souza has written over a dozen books, several of them New York Times best-sellers. Dinesh Joseph D'Souza ( / d ɪ ˈ n ɛ ʃ d ə ˈ s uː z ə/ born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, provocateur, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.

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