Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy in Washington, D.C. He spent close to twenty years as a journalist, fifteen of them writing from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He left journalism to join the Bush administration, serving as a speechwriter for Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, before moving on to the State Department’s European Bureau, where he wrote speeches and op-eds. Since 2009 he has been at The Heritage Foundation, now writing on critical race theory, national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general.

“Gonzalez takes on a movement that, with backing from every institution of elite culture, now has tentacles throughout American life, and is a threat to the very foundations of the country. This book is a necessary, urgent, and courageous critique.”―Rich Lowry, editor of National Review

“Mike Gonzalez shows why Americans must take seriously the architects of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory. He systematically reveals how these Marxists seek to transform America into something unimagined by the Founders and unrecognizable to most Americans today. His diagnosis of the threat is superbly argued and his wake-up call sorely needed.” ―Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of The Dying Citizen

“Origins matter, and Mike Gonzalez has done yeoman work investigating and reporting on the origins of the BLM movement whose success has resulted in soaring crime rates and urban violence.” ―Michael Barone, senior political analyst, Washington Examiner

“This is a must-read to make sense of the political turmoil of the past two years. In the narrative created by the media and academia, Black Lives Matter is a continuation of the civil rights movement, but Gonzalez makes it abundantly clear that BLM is not mainly about eliminating racism. Rather, it aims to overthrow the free-market system and the American constitutional way of government. With careful research and a deep understanding of American history, Gonzalez has written a tour de force.”―Kim Holmes, former Assistant Secretary of State and Executive Vice President of The Heritage Foundation

“Mike Gonzalez is a rare combination: brilliant enough to articulate fundamental problems and brave enough to name them. Black Lives Matter is a movement predicated on prevarication, and Gonzalez breaks down its dangerous falsehoods in hard-hitting fashion. ―Ben Shapiro, host of The Ben Shapiro Show and author of How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

“Gonzalez provides a masterful chronicle of the intellectual origins of Black Lives Matter and the radical, Marxist ideology that underpins the movement. This is a must read for patriots who wish to understand and fight back against BLM’s effort to tear down America’s most fundamental principles and institutions.”―Ying Ma, author of Chinese Girl in the Ghetto