Encounter Books: 253 books
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The terms “Front-Row Kids” and “Back-Row Kids,” coined by the photographer Chris Arnade, describe the divide between the educated upper middle class, who are staying ahead in today’s economy, and the less educated working class, who are doing poorly. The differences in education—and the...
In Praise of Prejudice
How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible,...
What's Wrong with Benevolence
Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested...
The Closing of the Liberal Mind
How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently Acting Senior Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect...
Honor
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history...
The Challenge of Modernizing Islam
Reformers Speak Out and the Obstacles They Face
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The entire foreign policy and much of the domestic policy of the United States and other Western governments is based on the proposition that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate and peaceful, including those who are emigrating in large numbers to Europe and North America. But as Islamist groups...
Against All Hope
A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cuba’s infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion). His life in Castro’s gulag was a hell of violence and disease, putrid...
The Devil's Pleasure Palace
The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world’s premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, the burgeoning transnational...
The World Turned Upside Down
The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy...
Children of Monsters
An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst:...
Sovereignty or Submission
Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America’s...
The Fiery Angel
Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it...
Campus Speech in Crisis
What the Yale Experience Can Teach America
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Free speech is in crisis on America’s campuses. Rather than refute an idea with which he disagrees, today’s college student demands censorship. At the slightest hint of offense, the weak-willed administrator complies and disinvites a speaker while a close-minded protestor disrupts a lecture. This...
Spring Fever
The Illusion of Islamic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United...