“Are we all Catholics now? Peter Schwartz demonstrates, over the last half century, how intellectuals and suburbanites combined to alter American governance and politics beyond recognition. Fun, informative, and well-written, The Third Coming gives attempts to reclaim Catholic orthodoxy in our day a rather unorthodox treatment—and the outraged scrutiny they deserve.”
—Samuel Moyn, author of Gerontocracy in America

“A bracingly ambitious act of civilizational diagnosis. Schwartz traces the American Right's transformation not to populism or evangelicalism but to the deep, systematic architecture of Catholic natural law—and in doing so rewrites the intellectual history of our present crisis. Erudite, unsettling, and original.”
—Linda M. G. Zerilli, author of A Democratic Theory of Truth

“The Third Coming is a significant contribution to the field of political theory and more broadly to rethinking our moment of multiple crises. It is an ambitious and epic narrative about the successive cosmologies that have governed politics and culture since the medieval moment of Catholic dominance. In lively, vivid prose, Schwartz writes with passion about what is at stake in each of the organizing faiths human beings have lived by and compels readers to travel the grand sweep of historical change. The book is meant to be controversial, and readers will likely disagree with many specific claims, but they are certain to be provoked into deep reflection about our moment.”
—George M. Shulman, author of American Prophecy