Reviews of my books

Bruce Charlton is first off here.

There’s another review of my book, this one by Brett Stevens at the Amerika weblog.

Another recommendation for my book, this one from the president of the Modern Language Association: “a book that gets right to the core of the matter: immanent tyrannical elements in the political philosophy that first challenged tyranny” (it’s in the next-to-last paragraph on the linked page). The review Berman refers to is unfortunately not available … More ...

R. R. Reno has a review of my book in the most recent Intercollegiate Review. He titles the review “Resistance Literature,” a phrase intended as high praise.

It’s another brief one, this time in New Oxford Review.

Incidentally, the paperback version is sold out and the hardbound version is running low. I’m told a new printing of the paperbound is being scheduled but the hardbound will not be reprinted. So get yours fast!

My book got a brief notice in (as it happens) the “Briefly Noted” section of First Things (scroll down the page). It’s basically a zippy little precis by a very recent Princeton graduate they have now, Stefan McDaniel. To cut a precis down to a blurb, Mr. McD tells his readers that:

“James Kalb’s new

There’s a new review of my book at Extreme Politics, a website on non-mainstream politics put together by a sometime freelance journalist and Plato’s Republic fan from California. The review is by Filipe Serra—apparently, this Filipe Serra, a Chilean antimodernist and antiglobalist. Serra’s takeaway: “Most of all, ‘The Tyranny of Liberalism’ is an excellent … More ...

My book has finally picked up a review at Amazon. If you’ve read it, why not post your own thoughts there? It’s easy, people will pay attention, and almost anything you say will be useful to someone. So do it!

My book has received a couple additional reviews, one in the Longview (East Texas) News-Journal, and one in a Hungarian weblog, Konzervativ tea-kor (the name seems to have something to do with tea).

The latter maintains the now-established tradition of reviews in languages very few English-speakers understand. An online translation service gives the following … More ...