"B#xE9;rub#xE9; links progressives' inability to control the conversation on national security during the Bush administration to cultural studies' failure to deliver on its promise of a vibrant New Left. And in the process, he also tries to imagine a newer and better one#x13;a left that both knows what is worth fighting for and how to fight for it." #x13; American Prospect"You'll rejoice that there's such an intelligent and even-minded critic of the left who takes his principles seriously enough to challenge those who threaten to destroy them from within." #x13; Bookforum"Provides 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." #x13; Publishers Weekly"Indefatigably clear-minded and relentlessly researched, B#xE9;rub#xE9;'s The 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." #x13; Eric Alterman, author of Why We're Liberals"A rigorous, hard-hitting, and impressively detailed critique and account of the United States left during wartime#x13;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." #x13; Eric Lott, author of The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual.