REVIEWS
Thomas Sowell
publication
"It is hard to find a book on the history of socialism that is either readable or accurate, so it is especially remarkable to find one that is both."
Yuval Levin
Founding editor, National Affairs; director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, American Enterprise Institute
"An insightful and illuminating look at the deepest roots of socialism in both politics and social psychology."
Stephen Bailey
Choice
“As much brilliant essay as historical narrative, this work traces the development of socialism from the "Conspiracy of Equals" in the French Revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union... This is contemporary history at its best.”
Barton Swaim
Wall Street Journal
"What a perfect time, then, for the reissue of Joshua Muravchik’s superb “Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism.” The word “afterlife” is new in the subtitle and represents an epilogue.”
Sohrab Ahmari
Wall Street Journal
“Part polemic, part intellectual history, this thoughtful and timely study... provides a nuanced and illuminating guide to the ideological developments that have led many on the left to detest Israel.”
Paul Hollander
Society
“A thorough and illuminating analysis of the changing Western attitudes towards Israel, this book prompts the reader to ponder the larger question of how political judgments are made, influenced, and colored by non-rational, emotional factors. It reminds us that these judgments…have influential moral components”
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Sol Stern
Mosaic
“A powerful indictment of the West’s serial moral failures regarding Israel and the Middle East conflict. . . . The chapter on Edward Said is a tour de force.”
