Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 104 books
The Just War Tradition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited the principles of “just war” to defend military actions from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya. Other politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited just war principles to condemn those same military interventions. How can the same tradition lead to such...
by Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few knew it at the time, but both men came close to dying.
Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that historians...
by Carle C. Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University. In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise...
The Devil Knows Latin
Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Devil Knows Latin is a provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Its range is broad and fascinating. Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a...
by Mark C Henrie
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education” (The American Spectator).
College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well?...
America's Way Back
Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“The solution for the modern GOP . . . Intellectual ammunition for the modern conservative movement.” —SENATOR RAND PAUL
How can America recover from economic stagnation, moral exhaustion, and looming bankruptcy? Donald J. Devine shows the way.
Devine, a longtime adviser to Ronald...
Growing Up Guggenheim
A Personal History of a Family Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston—a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture—shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally...
The Office of Assertion
An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, “That’s just rhetoric!” But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student,...
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis—and the threat to us all
Robert R. Reilly’s eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the spiritual pathology of Islamism.
Reilly...
Did Muhammad Exist?
An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.
Did Muhammad exist?
It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led...
Cult City
Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a...
William F. Buckley Jr.
The Maker of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The modern-day Renaissance man who forged the conservative movement
Noted conservative historian Lee Edwards, who knew William F. Buckley Jr. for more than forty years, delivers a much-needed intellectual biography of the man has been called “arguably the most important public intellectual...
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth
Understanding Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Since the appearance of The Lord of the Rings in 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien’s works have always sold briskly, appealing to a wide and diverse audience of intellectuals, religious believers, fantasy enthusiasts, and science fiction aficionados. Now, Peter Jackson’s film version of Tolkien’s trilogy—with...
by Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this classic title, Kirk outlines ten principles of conservative thought, summarizes ten vital conservative books, and offers brief accounts of ten eminent, internationally important conservatives. This book, written by the founder of modern conservatism in America, reflects several decades of learning, travel, and practical politics.