PanLos Angeles Review of BooksThe US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel ... I found myself wondering if I was making too much of a mediocre book by a guy who should be busy being vice president. Communion often reads like a series of disjointed vignettes that skip between subjects without meaningful transitions. But if you read Vance’s book in relation to \'The Straussian Moment,\' it becomes clear that this is by design ... To Vance and Thiel, the fight they are engaged in is not only for the heterodox thinker’s survival but also for the preservation of the ideals that undergird Western Christian civilization. In this light, the Taliban and American liberals are equally genocidal ... This is the war Vance believes he is fighting.
