Book Review: Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

Jacob Taubes is a name that will likely be unfamiliar to many readers of this journal, but he wrote about many topics and persons of interest to libertarians, and in this superb book, the distinguished historian Jerry Muller does a magnificent job of discussing these. Muller has an almost unparalleled ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms, and he has a keen ear for nonsense as well. Taubes knew an astonishingly large number of intellectuals and influenced many of them.