As an author, Dr. Steele is admired for his iconoclastic study of George Orwell’s thinking, Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (2017), praised by Yuri Maltsev as “absolutely dazzling”; his popular exposition of atheism, Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008), not only admired by atheists but also frequently praised by believers for its fair-mindedness; and his demonstration of the practical impossibility of Marxian socialism, From Marx to Mises (1992). Dr. Steele is also co-author (with Michael Edelstein) of Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (1997; second edition 2019) and Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others (2013).