_Indefatigably clear-minded and relentlessly researched, Beacute;rubeacute;_sThe Left at Waroffers an invaluable excavation of just what has gone wrong, and occasionally right, with the academic/intellectual left in America. Anyone concerned with its future will be relying on this work for many years to come._ Eric Alterman, author ofWhy We_re Liberals_A rigorous, hard-hitting, and impressively detailed critique and account of the United States left during wartime - and at war with itself. it is far and away the most thoroughly reasoned and researched brief for a middle way between a predictably anti-imperialist left and a revoltingly hawkish liberalism, and in this it is immensely useful both as a guide to recent debates and as a sort of internationalist handbook. Rousing, engrossing, principled, and brave._ Eric Lott, author ofThe Disappearing Liberal Intellectual_Beacute;rubeacute; is the kind of critic, and The kind of advocate, that the Left desperately needs. I sometimes disagree with him, and then I argue with him in my head. I strongly recommend this practice: read him, learn from him, argue with him.

it is a wonderfully bracing experience._ Michael Walzer, editor,Dissent Magazine_Beacute;rubeacute;_s new book delivers an incredibly timely message of tough love to The American Left. On issue after issue - from Afghanistan to Iraq to The domestic front - he separates progressive myth from progressive reality. In the process he distinguishes good reasoning from bad among the major political writers of the last generation and gives us a fresh agenda for future work._ Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign _An incisive critique of the excesses of the political and academic left. Beacute;rubeacute; is uniquely positioned to diagnose the relationship between policy debates over the Iraq War and The fate of cultural studies in United States. The result is a fog-clearing argument for a new left internationalism centered on human rights and supranational institutions, and a timely reconsideration of Stuart Hall_s rich analysis of the rise of Thatcherism in England. This is an important and bracing book.

_ Amanda Anderson, author ofThe Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory"[P]rovides robust intellectual arguments for how to reshape leftist thought into a powerful, constructive and measurably successful political philosophy.his effort not only identifies left-wing excesses and elevates its more viable and strategically sound currents, but puts critical thinking back into vogue on both sides of the political spectrum."Publisher_s Weekly, 28th Sept 2009.