PositiveThe Washington PostThe most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted. Erudite and up to date, Mounk integrates ideas from philosophy, political theory, political science and psychology, along with the views of a range of commentators ... Mounk eschews pithy phrases and definitions for a fuller examination of an evolving phenomenon ... Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it.
David Edmonds
RaveThe Washington PostIn some ways, Parfit’s work was of his times, and Parfit draws out those connections, perhaps without discussing them as explicitly as a reader might like ... Parfit is written engagingly, ably balancing philosophy and biography. Readers outside the field will find Edmonds’s descriptions of Parfit’s philosophical contributions fascinating and clear.
