*In Defense of Love* is a book about love, but also a book about hate for the enemies of love.

What Is Love?

Whether on Hitler’s evil, Shakespeare’s genius, or the nature of love, Ron Rosenbaum resists the lure of easy answers

By Errol Morris

Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

Ron Rosenbaum starts his new book, In Defense of Love, with a clear mission:

“All my life I have wanted to write about love.... But it is only now that I feel the need to risk writing a book about love. A defense of love. It’s only now that I have come to feel that love needs defending, love is under siege, love has powerful enemies. Love has deniers.”