"A mind-opening guide for personal evolution through cognitive revolution, The Modern Know-it-All: A Handbook to Achieving an Infallible Worldview by Brandon Wolfe is an original and far-reaching work of self-help, pulling back the curtain on our artificial world, which keeps the average person pliable, apathetic, and consequently powerless. Encouraging readers to discard outmoded ideas about intelligence in exchange for an emotional, philosophical, and intellectual upgrade, the book acts as a manual to deconstruct inherent biases and subjective ideologies. Though the book has a distinct political bent by bluntly detailing how religion, nationalism, and traditionally conservative belief systems must be abandoned to achieve a more balanced worldview, the author effectively draws a stark line between facts and feelings in a way that should benefit all readers. With unflinching confidence and sound arguments, Wolfe makes a powerful case for constructive nihilism, secular humanism, and biological pragmatism to be the guiding lights for the future." - Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★½

"We live in hard and complicated times, with the total amount of human knowledge exceeding any single individual's reach and the sum of all right decisions being far beyond anyone's comprehension. Recalling but not repeating the false cliche of the Renaissance Man, in The Modern Know-it-all, Brandon Wolfe agrees that knowing everything, or even a large fraction of everything, simply isn't feasible. In its place, he presents a shortcut for always having the correct answer, as well as for achieving an assured and trouble-less life. Wolfe continues to run us through a swift view of intellectual history, characterized by humanity's journey out of ignorance toward enlightenment. It is willful ignorance, he believes, that drives the modern world's conflicts, as opposed to the naive ignorance of previous ages. And so the way of thinking Wolfe suggests is based around a robust nihilism, which he says is the only logically infallible worldview. It is peppered with bits of other philosophies, most prominently stoicism, and made attractive by a healthy dose of hedonism. What is original is his framing of this so-called constructive nihilism as a practical way for fulfilling our need to feel like we are the smartest person in any room, as the author phrases it. Clear-eyed and confident, The Modern Know-it-all presents a complete approach to living the good life." - Independent Book Review