Encounter Books: 253 books
by James Piereson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The controversy over inequality has gathered steam with the publication of Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a dense work of economic history that documents the rise of income inequality in recent decades and sets forth an agenda of taxation to deal with it. Piketty’s...
by Paul Howard, Peter Huber
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
New medicines in the pipeline can extend lives, save money, and even help prevent disease before symptoms appear if we don’t discourage their innovators and investors by trying to lower drug prices artificially. Unlocking Precision Medicine explores the environment necessary for creation of...
by Guy Sorman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and India - out of poverty. In Economics Does Not Lie, noted French journalist Guy Sorman reveals that behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collapse...
Rebooting Justice
More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of...
The Great Global Warming Blunder
How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and...
Wounds That Will Not Heal
Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who...
Disinherited
How Washington Is Betraying America's Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These Americans, known as millennials, are, or soon will be, entering the workforce. For them, achieving success will be more difficult than it was for young people in the past.
This is not because they are less intelligent, they...
by Sally C. Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
This Broadside will look at the changes that can be made to halt the full implementation of the law over the next few years, including repealing parts of the act that are unpopular with members of both parties. These parts are the medical device tax, IPAB, the new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income,...
America 3.0
Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why Americas Greatest Days Are Yet to Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
America’s greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the end of...
Trailblazers of the Arab Spring
Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Before September 11, 2001 we Americans did not think much about freedom or democracy in the Middle East. U.S. policy toward the region aimed to assure a reliable flow of oil, to encourage peace between the Arabs and Israel, and above all, during the Cold War, to prevent our rival from gaining any...
Never Enough
Americas Limitless Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more-much more-to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never...
Conservatism Redefined
A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
After reaching high levels of public popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, political conservatism has become beset with criticism and disillusionment. As demonstrated by the 2008 election results, political conservatism has been blamed for an unpopular Iraq war, an economy nose diving into recession,...
Shattered Consensus
The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development....
The University We Need
Reforming American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about it. In The University We...