• A concise, insightful, and at-times humorous indictment of our increasingly polarized world, with a passionate defence of the necessity of free speech and critical thinking.
• A blend of social observations with political histories, theories, and philosophies, influenced by the writings of Montaigne, Marcus Aurelius, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Ray Robertson has won the Independent Publisher Book Award, has been a finalist for the Hillary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction and the Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, and has been long-listed for the Trillium Book Award.
• The Globe and Mail praised Robertson as “a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.”
• The National Post described Robertson’s book Why Not? as “intentionally provocative, stirring readers to vehemently agree or disagree. But this is Robertson’s point: to be stirred at all, regardless.”