Twitter account. According to his analysis, Trump's enemies were a legion of politicians, highbrow academics, journalists, and sold-out experts. Questions posed in his book include: why did the American people cast their vote in favor of an underdog? What was the crowd's reaction to Barack Obama's arrogance? How was it possible for Donald Trump to defeat the Hollywood consensus and mainstream media bias against him? Why did the Christian communities grant their support to a folksy, foul-mouthed, and highly unconventional character? The book attempts to provide answers to those questions from a decidedly Eastern European perspective. The Ages of Love (2016) This best-seller tells three stories of love. At the International Gaudeamus Book Fest held in Bucharest (18–20 Nov 2016), a plethora of writers, journalists, diplomats or theologians hailed this essay. Dr Adrian Papahagi praised the author for being capable to decipher the sacred halo of agape within the filigree of the profane love. The fiction of the archetypal child, Mowgli, mesmerised by Shanti, is combined with the story between the teenagers, Mihnea and Dora. Both stories lead to the climactic end exposed in the letter of two Eastern European intellectuals (Dinu and Nelli Pillat). A book of admirable encounters that can easily make you fall in love with them.' Zeitgeist (2010) In Zeitgeist, Neamțu offers an assessment of the moral, social, and economic legacy of Communism in Eastern Europe. He discusses everyday life, the question of political violence and institutional corruption, arts and material culture, as well as the Romanian history of dissidence and collaboration under dictatorship. Neamțu has systematically denounced the ‘negative influence of Soviet-style propaganda’, which attempts to weaken the notion of property, liberty, and the rule of law in all of Russia's neighboring countries. The Burden of Freedom (2009) This book (prefaced by Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu) is one of his most scholarly in style, as it pertains to the Western history of political ideas. Neamțu attempts to critically assess the two extremes of radical modernity. First, the author discusses Spinoza's biblical exegesis and the birth of secular liberal democracy; then, he looks at Carl Schmitt's attack on the rationalism of the Enlightenment. As a result, Neamțu searches for a third-way, as it is revealed by the American exceptionalism (illustrated by the works of Jaroslav Pelikan and William F. Buckley Jr). As a champion of economic freedom, Neamțu also defended the intrinsic virtues of entrepreneurship, claiming that