For better or worse, I have read the book (just finished it today). It was interesting. It corrected some misunderstandings I had about postmodernism, and pointed me to some critiques of it that I haven't seen anyone else raise (for instance, pomo lives in sustained anti-climax because while following Marxist categories, it denies a Marxist--or any--eschatology. The end result for a pomo is an eternal dystopia).

I didn't see anything radical in the book. I looked hard for denials of justification by faith, and found none. Likewise, while it was a good book, if that were the only book someone had read by Leithart, it is doubtful they would come to the conclusion, "Wow, I must read everything this guy has written." It was good, but not that good.

Extra thoughts:
The critique of democracy was quite good.
The reading of hebel as vapor, instead of vanity, made better sense of Ecclesiastes. Think: If God is a God of order and meaning, and his universe has meaning because it is his universe, then it seems counter-productive for holy writ to say it is meaningless.

I would give the book 4/5 stars.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College