destructive". David Gordon summarizes Brimelow's view in his review of the book in The Mises Review: "to attempt so far-reaching a goal as universal high school education is foolish." John O'Sullivan praised the book. For the Hoover Institution journal Education Next, public policy consultant George Mitchell wrote: "Brimelow... demonstrates how collective bargaining for teachers has produced labor agreements that stifle innovation and risk taking. He makes it clear that the dramatic rise in influence enjoyed by the teacher unions has coincided with stagnant and unacceptable levels of student performance." However, in the same journal article, education consultant Julia E. Koppich took a more critical angle: "Brimelow uses a variety of linguistic devices to drive home his points. But his over-the-top language soon grates on the nerves... His argument is not that teacher unions are destroying American education, but that they labor long and hard to preserve the status quo... But this book contains so little about education-virtually nothing about classrooms, schools, or districts-even that point gets lost." Koppich called the book "an anti-public school polemic". The Patriot Game In an article in Maclean's which was published in 2011, John M. Geddes says that Brimelow's book The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities "offered a bracingly of-the-moment conservative critique of Canada," and said that it was instrumental in shaping the thought process of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Writings Also published as Also see: letter to the editor, responding to critics – References External links Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report on Brimelow 1947 births Living people 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Alt-right writers Alumni of the University of Sussex Anti-immigration activists American business and financial journalists American chief executives in the media industry American columnists American magazine founders American magazine editors American magazine journalists American male journalists American white nationalists British emigrants to the United States Businesspeople from New York City Critics of multiculturalism Employees of the United States Senate Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines American opinion journalists Paleoconservatism People from Warrington Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Writers from New York City