Western Civilization was a "staggeringly well-informed work...displaying prodigious learning in historical anthropology... an indispensable reference on the great passages of history." Jones's positive review considered the book to excel in its analysis and critique of other scholars, while also pointing out that Duchesne's "method, like that of the revisionists [whom Duchesne criticizes], owes too much to Marxist-style rhetoric". Jones added that Duchesne "shows himself...a master of the archeologically based sagas of the Indo-Europeans," concluding that "Duchesne's book may persuade readers to ponder on the ineffable nature of the human soul. It will certainly become an indispensable reference on the great passages of history". Thomas D. Hall, although critical of the book in many respects and finding that it "gives a sense of pontificating from on high", concludes that The Uniqueness of Western Civilization "despite my stylistic critiques shows a very wide range of scholarship and many deft syntheses. It is an impressive book." However, many reviews went on to criticize the conclusions made in the book, with one reviewer stating that the themes of the book were "several orders of magnitude more speculative than the tracts of early modern history where Duchesne fences with the most fashionable of the revisionists". Reviews also criticized the book's understanding of non-western history and cultures, with one historian expressing "[alarm] that such scholarship has had positive reviews". Kevin McDonald, an evolutionary psychiatrist and white supremacist, wrote a 22 page review in which he praised the book as "a brilliant work written by an exceptionally wide-ranging scholar and thinker." McDonald would go on to publish much of Duchesne's subsequent work in The Occidental Quarterly, which McDonald edits. Gerald Russello, writing in The Dorchester Review, praised "Duchesne's marshalling of enormous amounts of data and his obviously wide reading...", saying that "His thesis about the Indo-Europeans and the differences he perceives between the West and other cultures is based on solid historical and archeological research". In a review in the journal The European Legacy, right-wing academic Grant Havers wrote that Duchesne "brings to his study an erudition that is matched only by Marx, Spengler, and Voegelin. Ricardo Duchesne demonstrates his mastery of anthropology, philosophy, religion, economics, and especially world history". Havers also criticised Duchesne's work for attributing the prominence of the West to an aristocratic "Nietzschian ideal of pagan greatness", and for de-emphasising the importance of Christianity, which Havers sees as the "founding faith" of the West,