?An extremely important book. Bronner provides us with a multi-faceted and innovative theory of prejudice. But he also offers an astute analysis of the exclusionary practices that cavort under the cover of populism in America today. His book is a clarion call for renewed commitment to the progressive and cosmopolitan values that inform a just society.??Dale Irvin, President, New York Theological Seminary

"Stephen Eric Bronner?s The Bigot is a worldly, deeply learned, and passionately written reflection on bigotry through an analysis of the mental physiognomy of ?the bigot.?ÿ Its central claim is that bigotry is a product of modernity in revolt against itself, and that the only proper intellectual and political response to bigotry is a redoubled effort to realize modern Enlightenment ideals.ÿ The book is both timely and important, and Iÿhighly recommend it."?Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, and Editor of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?s The Communist Manifesto (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012) for Yale University?s Rethinking the Western Tradition series

"In the 21st century, genuflections to human rights and moral equality are so common that they obscure how strongly many deem those commitments to be threats to their most cherished privileges, practices, and beliefs. In "The Bigot," Stephen Bronner forcefully advances vital inquiries into the sources and substance of the politics of prejudice today."?Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Stephen Bronner has written a treatise that illuminates the episodes of mass paranoia that have marked our history. ÿIn the process, we learn not only about the fears that drove Nazi mobs or the crowds that cheered at lynchings in the American South , but also about the paranoid frenzy of the contemporary right in the United States and Europe. ÿ Read this book to understand the dark underside of our politics.- Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

"One of the nation?s most prominent political philosophers, Stephen Eric Bronner, relentlessly and daringly investigates the historical origins and social functions of bigotry.ÿ Bronner unmasks the bigot as a creature of modernity who survives and thrives in an ever-changing political and social landscape, and he exposes the persistent threat that bigotry presents to social pluralism, democratic institutions, and intellectual freedom." - Craig Steven Wilder, author ofÿEbony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America?s Universities.ÿ

“An important new book that does not beat around the bush . . . . Refreshing in its brutal honesty and directness."—Adam Parker, Charleston Post and Courier

Valuable insight, historical context, and useful distinctions for a murky subject. If the reader has the habit of underlining important passages and adding marginalia, give it up because there will be no white space left on any page.  [Bronner] does not spare names. --Charles Marlin, Clarion Friends

“A brilliant, disturbing new book.”?Slate

“An insightful, accessible and compact inquiry into why people hate other people.”—Shelf Awareness

"Displays a keen understanding of the aggrieved if damaging psychology of the subjects of his book.  Wilhelm’s Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) and Theodor Adorno, et. al.’s The Authoritarian Personality (1950) are … well-regarded classics….Add Bronner’s [book] to that must-read list."—Michael Hirsch, Indypendent