Encounter Books: 253 books
by Sally C. Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A government takeover of the US health care system has never looked more plausible. Support for the idea is at an all-time high. Two-thirds of Democratic voters favor “single-payer” health care; even one in four Republicans is on board.
In this Broadside, Sally C. Pipes makes the case against...
Abuse of Discretion
The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Abuse of Discretion is a critical review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that went into the Supreme Court's abortion decisions and how the mistakes made...
by Robert L. Shibley
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This is the story of how Title IX, a 1972 law intended to ban sex discrimination in education, became a monster that both the federal government and many college administrators treat as though it supersedes both the U.S. Constitution and hundreds of years of common law. It's a story about the victims...
Unlearning Liberty
Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education...
The Campus Rape Frenzy
The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation’s institutions of higher learning as awash in a violent crime wave—and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students...
Why the West is Best
A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics in Western universities, intellectuals such as Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Edward Said,...
The Modern Prince
What Machiavelli Can Teach Us in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What do leaders need to know in order to be effective? Carnes Lord—a political scientist with extensive experience at high levels of American government—here offers witty and trenchant counsel to both leaders and the citizens who elect them. Exploring such issues as leadership in war and crises,...
Imperial Legacies
The British Empire Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Britain yesterday; America today.
The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes...
by Kevin D. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Donald Trump, who rocketed to the top of the polls in the early GOP primary race, is an unlikely Republican front-runner: a longtime supporter of Democratic politicians with a history of taking views opposed to those of mainstream conservatives. A household name for his reality-television show and his...
When Harry Became Sally
Responding to the Transgender Moment
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”?
When...
Reckoning with Race
America's Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to...
Eclipse of Man
Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able...
Free People, Free Markets
How the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book is about how the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages became the leading forum for the discussion of political and economic policies in the US. The Wall Street Journal also is international, with print editions in Europe and Asia, translated supplements in many foreign newspapers and online...
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English...