Dwight Garner
…a slim and penetrating work…this book's bleak assessment of the selfishness and materialism that have taken root in Western societies will stick to your feet and muddy your floors. But Ill Fares the Land is also optimistic, raw and patriotic in its sense of what countries like the United States and Britain have meant—and can continue to mean—to their people and to the world…If Ill Fares the Land sometimes reads like a graduation speech, then it is the Platonic ideal of one—concise, hardheaded, severe in its moral arguments.
—The New York Times
