PanThe ProgressiveAs ... a writer, at least in The Right Side of History, [Shapiro\'s] vague, dull, and self-contradictory. The book is loaded with spurious arguments, and from cover to cover Shapiro evades the most difficult—and often most obvious—questions that arise from his theory ... The book is also filled with casual cheap shots more befitting a five-minute TV segment than a serious work of history or political philosophy ... While it’s possible that Shapiro’s more hardcore fans will end up mistaking the book’s shallow philosophical analysis for intellectual profundity, less gullible readers will find its argument crumbling, fragment by half-baked fragment.
