Encounter Books: 253 books
Native Americans
Patriotism, Exceptionalism, and the New American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Are you an American? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, increasing numbers of people are claiming American” as their national ancestry. In our melting pot of cultures, they are taking a stand as authentic representatives of the American nation. This growing social phenomenon serves as the launching...
by Jay P Greene
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Expanding school choice and competition is the single most important action we can take to improve America's schools. Although school choice faces strong opposition from powerful teacher unions and their entrenched political allies, expanding choice via vouchers, charters, and tax credits has repeatedly...
A Time for Governing
Policy Solutions from the Pages of National Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling with the exploding costs of health-care and entitlement spending, and fiscal disaster...
by Richard A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck. It is the product of flawed institutional design. Right now we are reaping the harvest of efforts to reinvigorate the progressive programs of the New Deal that stress high progressive taxes, large transfer...
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been putting ever-growing amounts of money into its K-12 education system, while getting steadily poorer results. Now parents are losing faith in public schools, new alternatives are appearing,...
Money in a Free Society
Keynes, Friedman, and the New Crisis in Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the 15 years to mid-2007 the world economy enjoyed unparalleled stability (the so-called Great Moderation”), with steady growth and low inflation. But the period since mid-2007 (the Great Recession”) has seen the worst macroeconomic turmoil since the 1930s. A dramatic plunge in trade, output...
Becoming Europe
Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal...
by Thomas W Hazlett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
There is little dispute that the Internet should continue as an open platform,” notes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Yet, in a curious twist of logic, the agency has moved to discontinue the legal regime successfully yielding that magnificent platform. In late 2010, it imposed network...
A Republic No More
Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: A Republic-if you can keep it.”
This book argues: we couldn’t keep it.
A true republic privileges the common interest above the...
by Howard Husock
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Philanthropy Under Fire, author Howard Husock defends the American tradition of independent philanthropy from significant political and intellectual challenges which threaten it today. Although the U.S. continues to be the most charitable nation in the world, serious efforts seek to discourage traditional,...
by Edmund J. McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers. In this provocative Broadside, E.J. McMahon explains how the...
The Way Back
Restoring the Promise of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The promise of America is that, with ambition and hard work, anyone can rise to the top. But now the promise has been broken, and we’ve become an aristocracy where rich parents raise rich kids and poor parents raise poor kids.
We’ve been told that the changes are structural, that there’s...
Uber-Positive
Why Americans Love the Sharing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Entire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living-even in today’s slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy.
Even in the face of these benefits,...
The New Trail of Tears
How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more...