On Settler Colonialism

[Kirsch's] Excellent new book is a primer that can be absorbed in a single sitting.--Katherine Howell ""National Review"" A rigorous moral reckoning... [Kirsch] writes compellingly, laying out his argument with the care of a poet.-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" Adam Kirsch has penned a learned and eloquent evisceration of [settler colonialism].--Joshua A. Brook ""Fathom Journal"" Adam Kirsch has written an outstanding and overdue frontal assault on the ideology of 'settler colonialism'... what he achieve[s] in dismantling the settler-colonial ideology is noteworthy.--Alan J. Levine ""Chronicles Magazine"" Kirsch has a talent for zeroing in on grisly details... and for zooming out to capture panoramic views, which allows him to sharpen his observations and broaden them at the same time. And he possesses a journalist's knack for being up to date... It is a short book. It is pleasing to read. It has the sparkle of sharp intelligence.--Paul Berman ""Arc Magazine"" [If] schools were to assign one book this academic year, I'd recommend Kirsch's.--Pamela Paul ""New York Times"" Adam Kirsch has given us the most profound intellectual product to emerge from the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas.--Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power Adam Kirsch sets out to examine the baggy concept of settler colonialism and discovers a stark, accusatory, and literally hopeless ideology. He then shows how the concept's conceits can flatten history into a remorseless saga of indigenous innocence, European depravity, and immutable guilt. His bracing book will stir up trouble of the very best kind.--Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln In his slender new book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, [Kirsch] not only picks apart the argument that Israel is a settler colonial state but goes after the larger project of settler colonial studies -- often to devastating effect.--David Scharfenberg ""The Boston Globe"" Kirsch has written a succinct and subtle study... On Settler Colonialism is unashamedly and splendidly bellicose. After its judicious analysis of the phenomenon's roots, it wastes no time getting to the heart of the matter.--Brian Stewart ""Commentary Magazine""