Encounter Books: 253 books
by Myron Magnet
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written—the one that had established a federal government manned by the people’s own elected representatives, charged with protecting...
Zero Hour for Gen X
How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon...
The People of the Book
Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that have...
Treason of the Heart
From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Treason of the Heart is an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save....
by Conrad Black
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it."-Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's Daily Telegraph...
Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine
The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
An Academy Awardnominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon is the only American writer to pull off the amazing trick of being profiled positively in both Mother Jones and National Review in one lifetime. The stunning story of his political odyssey is told in this memoir, where Simon...
Political Woman
The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion.
Political...
The Education Apocalypse
How It Happened and How to Survive It
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
For decades, the U.S. invested ever-growing fortunes into its antiquated K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse outcomes. At the same time, Americans spent more than they could afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing crisis. The graduates of...
After the Fall
Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression.Washington's actions weren't...
by Kevin D. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia’s shipyards to New York’s textile industry, but Detroit-which is now in bankruptcy-is both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it. A city with a history of civil disorder-it is...
Obama's Radical Transformation of America: Year One
The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in debt; a health-care plan that prescribes a cure worse than the illness; catastrophically expensive environmental schemes; and a foreign policy that appeases enemies and punishes friends.
In...
The Israel Test
Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel’s sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of...
Liberal Oasis
The Truth About Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Israel has become the most reviled of states; and the international Left-world church bodies, British labor unions, American human rights groups and the like-has been especially vociferous in its condemnations. But, ironically, Israel's humane accomplishments in the very realms that the Left most cherishes...
President Obama's Tax Piracy
Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Starting on Jan. 1, 2011, President Obama’s economic recovery policy will begin the implementation of comprehensive, across-the-board tax rate increases for every major federal tax, along with some completely new taxes. Yet Obama and Congressional Democrats seek even more tax increases.In this insightful...