September 14, 2001

When Entrepreneurs Make Fortunes, What Happens to the Rest of Us?

To the Editor:

Dinesh D'Souza's essay offers disturbing evidence of what Paulina Borsook has aptly called "the terribly libertarian culture of high tech" ("Rich Men, Poor Men, Businessmen, and Scholars," The Review, August 3). As a student and former resident of Silicon Valley who now teaches courses on the subject, I have heard this cant before. But I still find cause for outrage in D'Souza's horribly skewed analysis of the virtues of the high-tech entrepreneur.

D'Souza asks,