Encounter Books: 253 books
How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty
How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Today, American sovereignty is more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from friends” who urge us to share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives. How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty reveals what sovereignty means to...
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our...
Who's Counting?
How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. It is also likely to be one of the closest, a fact that brings concerns about voter fraud and bureaucratic incompetence in the conduct of elections front and center. If we don't take notice, we could see another debacle like the...
by Bruce S. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England’s departure from the E.U. in 2016. Yet these are all the wages of persistent flaws in the idea of the Union...
by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
How bad is the problem of media bias? The answer can be summed up in a few words: President Donald J. Trump. Whether you love him or hate him, there’s no question that Trump gained a huge amount of support for his willingness to criticize the media in harsh and unsparing terms. The media seems...
by Jay Cost
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Cronyism is a serious problem in the United States, but unfortunately it is still not very well understood. In this new essay, Jay Cost explains what it is, and why we should be so worried about it. By mingling private and public interests, cronyism costs us hundreds of billions of dollars per year and...
The Russia-China Axis
The New Cold War and Americas Crisis of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The United States is a nation in crisis. While Washington’s ability to address our most pressing challenges has been rendered nearly impotent by ongoing partisan warfare, we face an array of foreign-policy crises for which we seem increasingly unprepared. Among these, none is more formidable than the...
Putin on the March
The Russian President's Unchecked Global Advance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In his 2016 book coauthored with Evan Roth Smith, Putin’s Master Plan, Doug Schoen warned of the Russian president’s grand vision to expand his country’s influence around the world, especially in Eastern Europe, while destabilizing the Western alliance and delegitimizing the very principles...
Saving Congress from Itself
Emancipating the States and Empowering Their People
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Saving Congress from Itself proposes a single reform: eliminate all federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments. This action would reduce federal spending by over $600 billion a year and have a profound effect on how we govern ourselves. The proliferation of federal grants-in-aid programs...
by Chris Buskirk
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The success of the Trump presidency will be judged in large part on his ability to reduce the size and scope of the deep state. The unelected, unaccountable permanent bureaucratic leviathan that winds itself around the body and squeezes its life out must be dismantled if Trump’s legacy is to be...
The Once and Future King
The Rise of Crown Government in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This remarkable book shatters just about every myth surrounding American government, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers, and offers the clearest warning about the alarming rise of one-man rule in the age of Obama.Most Americans believe that this country uniquely protects liberty, that it does...
Liberty's Nemesis
The Unchecked Expansion of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
If there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obama’s presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state. Its expansion has followed a pattern: First, expand federal powers beyond their constitutional limits. Second, delegate those powers to agencies and away from elected politicians...
by David B Kopel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate.In this Broadside, David Kopel explains why the right to...
Terms of Engagement
How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility....