Dinesh D'Souza

Join bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza for a public lecture on May 5 at 7:30 p.m.

D’Souza’s lecture, “Why Fight for America,” is sponsored by the Philadelphia Trumpet newsmagazine as part of its “America in Crisis” series, which features lectures focused on solutions to the crises facing the nation at home and abroad.

D’Souza’s political documentaries 2016: Obama’s America and America: Imagine a World Without Her are among the highest-grossing political films of all time. An immigrant who grew up in Mumbai, India, D’Souza came to the United States in 1978 as an exchange student. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He was a domestic policy analyst at the Reagan White House and also a scholar at think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He has written nearly 20 books and made six documentaries and one feature film. He teamed up with his wife, Debbie, to produce a daily podcast, which debuted January 2021 and is part of the Salem Podcast Network. In the spring of 2022, D’Souza Media, along with True the Vote, exposed the truth about the 2020 election with the movie 2000 Mules. In the fall of 2023, he released another timely documentary, titled Police State.