“Silent Theft raises the kinds of questions that Washington typically represses. The book broaches issues that very likely are going to drive the next big turn of the political wheel. Silent Theft confirms the brooding sense, shared by many, of a system out of control.”
Jonathan Rowe, Washington Monthly.

“Bollier advances a powerful critique of the market über alles nonsense that is driving our nation and our prospects for genuine democracy into the ground. He argues, convincingly, that the privatization of the commons is disastrous even for those generally entralled with markets and the profit-motive.”
Robert W. McChesney, Boston Review.

“…get[s] at what I think is the fundamental, primary political issue that can be the underlying value for regenerating progressive politics in our country, and that value is the common good versus private greed.”
Jim Hightower, Texas Observer.

“The subject of Silent Theft is urgently important, and Bollier’s handling of this complex set of issues is both deft and straightforward. The more people who read Silent Theft, the better our world.”
Norman Lear

“A calm reasonable primer on a topic of enormous importance. Buy a copy, and when you’ve read it, donate it to that wonderful commons called your local library.”
Bill McKibben author, The End of Nature

“A tour de force narrative that draws the reader into a high alert over what we have lost by allowing business lobbies and their captive government to turn rampant commercialism into the controlling ideology over our public assets and values. Silent Theft defines, with sure handed authority, a grand new mission for the beleaguered American commonwealth-that it should be governed by civic values not commercial, unaccountable supremacies. Enter this new world of human possibilities!”
Ralph Nader

“This beautifully written, carefully argued book shows how little we learned from the past. Free and open resources have always been central to creativity and growth; Bolliershows how in a range of important contexts, free and open resources are being enclosed, to the benefit of the corporate class, and burden of Americans generally.”
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School, and author of The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World