Charles Kesler is one of the few conservatives to transcend the factionalism that distracts us from our problems. He ably connects the legacy of conservative thought to the situation of the present, and he does it with wit and good cheer. This volume is an essential corrective for our desperately distracted time.
– Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, investor, and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Charles Kesler is one of America’s foremost conservative intellectuals, and in this hard-hitting, thought-provoking but witty analysis of the United States’ present discontents he reminds us why. His laser-like pinpointing of the profound dichotomy between the Founders’ constitution and the Progressivists’ constitution explains much of what ails America today, but it also provides the key to the way out, when people recognize how profoundly superior the former is to the latter
– Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny