David Martin Jones is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Queensland, and Visiting Professor in War Studies, King's College London. His works include Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age. He is a contributor to The Daily Telegraph, War on the Rocks, The Australian and The Spectator (Australia).

"David Jones argues that in its unceasing quest for utopian outcomes and despite the lessons of history, the liberal West, rather than continuing attachment to the institutions and culture underlying its prosperity and political freedom, is ceding sovereignty to transnational institutions with a bureaucratic style of management promising that 'big data' and 'techtopain guidance' will come up with 'rational solutions' to universal problems benefiting the whole of humanity. A brave and controversial book!" -- Barbara Ballis Lal, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

"An earnest appeal to reform our thinking about foreign affairs. As the 'rough beast of populism' shambles towards Brussels and Washington, this is a book whose time is certainly now." -- William Coleman, Associate Professor of Business and Economics, Australian National University

"History's Fools is a sweeping exploration of the phantasmagoria created by the post-millennial progressive mind, and the failure of transnational elites to understand the world as it really is, rather than as they wish it to be." -- William Rosenau, New America Foundation