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Reposted from NAS.org

Dear California members and readers (and anyone happening to visit California this spring),

Don’t miss the following events hosted by the California Association of Scholars at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz:

Thursday, January 21, 7:30 PM
Dinesh D’Souza
What’s So Great About Capitalism?
University of California, Los Angeles, Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Tuesday, March 09, 4:00 PM
Victor Davis Hanson
War in the Postmodern World: A Review of New Laws of Conflict
University of California, Berkeley, Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

Thursday, April 22, 7:30 PM
Dinesh D’Souza
What’s So Great About Capitalism?
University of California Santa Cruz, Room to be determined

Dinesh D’Souza events (January 21 and April 22):

The California Association of Scholars and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute cordially invite you to a free lecture, open to the public.  Dinesh D’Souza will address the moral arguments for and against capitalism in our age of Obama. He will show why the free market system is not only efficient but also moral, and will address topical applications to health care and financial regulations.

Co-sponsorship: American Freedom Alliance
For more information: 310-569-0853 or www.isi.org

Dinesh D’Souza has been called one of the “top young public-policy makers in the country” by Investor’s Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation’s 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country’s most prominent Asian Americans.

A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House,  D’Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.

Mr. D’Souza’s books have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. His 1991 book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book was widely acclaimed and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990′s. (www.dineshdsouza.com)

Victor Davis Hanson event (March 9):

Using ancient Greece and military history as commentary, Professor Hanson will analyze the legal dilemmas faced by democracies when defending themselves against terrorist entities.

For more information: 310-569-0853

Victor Davis Hanson is a Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor Emeritus of Classics at theCaliforniaStateUniversity at Fresno, noted historian of ancient Greece and preeminent military historian. He is author of more than 170 articles, 16 books, and recipient of many awards, including the National Humanities Medal.