Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 104 books
Takeover
How the Left’s Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
“How did liberals get to be the way they are today?”
That’s the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.
As the authors show, it...
We Still Hold These Truths
Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Essential Guide to Rolling Back the Progressive Assault and Putting America Back on Course
Many Americans are concerned, frightened, angry. The country, it seems, is on the wrong track.
But what is the *right *course for America? Knowing what we stand against is not the same as...
by George W. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise overview of the competing political philosophies that have shaped United States history.
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations...
The Triumph of Faith
Why the World is More Religious Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The**Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an incredible amount of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He explains why the...
by Angelo M Codevilla
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise journey through geopolitics and the continuing debate about America’s role in the world.
Terrorist attacks, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of China, and the decline of Europe have underscored the necessity of understanding the world around us. But how should we approach...
It Takes a Family
Conservatism and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rick Santorum made his name in the 2012 presidential race with his principled conservatism. To understand Santorum’s worldview and vision for America, there is no better source than his New York Times bestselling book, It Takes a Family.
It Takes a Family is one of the most profound...
The False Promise of Big Government
How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because candidates fail to address the fundamental issues.
Patrick M. Garry offers a solution...
Small Is Still Beautiful
Economics as if Families Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Since then, millions of copies of Schumacher’s work have been sold in dozens of different languages; few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent...
by Harvey C Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A primer on the bedrock principles of politics from “Harvard’s most controversial conservative professor” and the author of Democracy in America (Boston magazine).
Behind the daily headlines on presidential races and local elections is the theory of the polity—or what the end of our...
The West and the Rest
Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies’ profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations,...
Darwin Day in America
How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.
Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized...
Conscience and Its Enemies
Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
“Many in elite circles yield to the temptation to believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot or a religious fundamentalist. Reason and science, they confidently believe, are on their side. With this book, I aim to expose the emptiness of that belief.” From the introduction:
Assaults...
The Clash of Orthodoxies
Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious believers from bringing their beliefs to bear on public matters. This is because secular liberals typically assume that their own positions on morally...
Plagues of the Mind
The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned...