The discussion, like Mr. D'Souza's book, is about all aspects of racial and sexual politics on campus, from admissions policies to speech codes to curriculum. DD: "When universities practice preferential admissions, and when students ... are outmatched by their peers, there's a great temptation to believe that the reason I am experiencing some difficulty in reading Hamlet by Monday is not because I am not well enough prepared, but is because Shakespeare is a white male." ... DD: "The argument is not that Bach wrote bad music, but that Bach wrote white music, and that in a curriculum that is open to all groups there should be ... representation for other forms of music .. ." WFB: "Yes, but of course that gets into the way of the principal operative axiom of the melting-pot society, which is that people of your ethnic background, and of mine, and of Michael's, and of everybody's in this room, can adapt to a culture and exploit its special resources."