Which Way Western Man?

The book is [[Spenglerian]] in orientation, based heavily on the ideas promoted by [[Oswald Spengler]] in his ''[[The Decline of the West]]''.{{sfn|Berry|2017|pp=52–53}} A 1982 bibliography of antisemitic works by [[Robert Singerman]] lists the book; Singerman wrote that it was "a mammoth glorification of Nordic, Christian civilization by a white supremacist follower of [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]" and described at as "reviving Hitler's program".{{sfn|Singerman|1982|p=320}} The extremism scholar [[George Michael (academic)|George Michael]] wrote of it as a "750-page turgid tome",{{sfn|Michael|2009|p=70}} while journalists Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt said it "laid out in laborious and monotonous detail his reasons for believing that white Christian people were in mortal danger of losing their race by being persuaded or forced into integration with other races, the result of an organized plot by Jews, who, he declared, most jealously guarded their own racial purity."{{sfn|Flynn|Gerhardt|1989|p=81}}

The book is [[Spenglerian]] in orientation, based heavily on the ideas promoted by [[Oswald Spengler]] in his ''[[The Decline of the West]]''.{{sfn|Berry|2017|pp=52–53}} A 1982 bibliography of antisemitic works by [[Robert Singerman]] lists the book; Singerman wrote that it was "a mammoth glorification of Nordic, Christian civilization by a white supremacist follower of [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]" and described at as "reviving Hitler's program".{{sfn|Singerman|1982|p=320}} The extremism scholar [[George Michael (academic)|George Michael]] wrote of it as a "750-page turgid tome",{{sfn|Michael|2009|p=70}} while journalists Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt said it "laid out in laborious and monotonous detail his reasons for believing that white Christian people were in mortal danger of losing their race by being persuaded or forced into integration with other races, the result of an organized plot by Jews, who, he declared, most jealously guarded their own racial purity."{{sfn|Flynn|Gerhardt|1989|p=81}}

Paul J. Devendittis wrote that it "marshals an abundance of scholarly, pseudo-scholarly and popular sources to trace the history of Western (White, Nordic) man from the beginning of time to "our present calamities." He concludes that the present crisis of the Nordic White Man lies with 1) the Negro, 2) the Jew and 3) Ourselves." He noted that despite quoting Yockey, a fascist who did not believe in race being biological, Simpson clearly did, thinking that "Breed is everything; and Race is the key to History"; in its depiction of Jesus, he further compared it to Yockey's writings, saying the book had "come full cycle" back to him.

Paul J. Devendittis wrote that it "marshals an abundance of scholarly, pseudo-scholarly and popular sources to trace the history of Western (White, Nordic) man from the beginning of time to 'our present calamities.' He concludes that the present crisis of the Nordic White Man lies with 1) the Negro, 2) the Jew and 3) Ourselves." He noted that despite quoting Yockey, a fascist who did not believe in race being biological, Simpson clearly did, thinking that "Breed is everything; and Race is the key to History"; in its depiction of Jesus, he further compared it to Yockey's writings, saying the book had "come full cycle" back to him.

In 2023, journalist Mike Rothschild described it is as extremely lengthy, at times "endless", and deeply antisemitic, anti-intellectual, and anti-communist. He critically described it as "[plodding]" through endless paragraphs of monotonous babble [...] before getting down to who's really to blame for "western man's" peril. You can probably guess."{{sfn|Rothschild|2023|p=150}} He noted that "all of it is wrapped in a cloak of mystical, high-sounding nonsense that would make the book at home on the shelf of a [[New Age]] guru with a slight fascist lean."{{sfn|Rothschild|2023|p=151}} Vegas Tenold described it as a "monotonous tome" and a "diatribe against the ills that have fallen on the white race".{{sfn|Tenold|2018|p=123}}

In 2023, journalist Mike Rothschild described it is as extremely lengthy, at times "endless", and deeply antisemitic, anti-intellectual, and anti-communist. He critically described it as "[plodding]" through endless paragraphs of monotonous babble [...] before getting down to who's really to blame for "western man's" peril. You can probably guess."{{sfn|Rothschild|2023|p=150}} He noted that "all of it is wrapped in a cloak of mystical, high-sounding nonsense that would make the book at home on the shelf of a [[New Age]] guru with a slight fascist lean."{{sfn|Rothschild|2023|p=151}} Vegas Tenold described it as a "monotonous tome" and a "diatribe against the ills that have fallen on the white race".{{sfn|Tenold|2018|p=123}}