Encounter Books: 253 books
The Permission Society
How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised freedoms” to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must...
Last in Their Class
Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Today’s Goat, the celebrated West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, carries on a long and storied tradition. George Custer’s contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to blow post” at night to carouse at local taverns also motivated...
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Social media giants are poisoning our journalism, our politics, our relationships and ultimately our minds. Glenn Reynolds looks at the up and downsides of social media and at proposals for regulation, and offers his own fix that respects free speech while reducing social media's toll.
Return to Winter
Russia, China, and the New Cold War Against America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
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...
by Claudia Rosett
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The United Nations is failing abysmally, and dangerously, in its mission. Founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human dignity and freedom, the U.N. has instead become a self-serving and ever-expanding haven of privilege for the world’s worst regimes, rife with bigotry, fraud, abuse,...
by Michael Ledeen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Yasser Arafat's incremental conquest of Israel was learned at the feet of the North Vietnamese in 1970. The Vietnamese told the Arab leadership that they accepted the fact that victory in Vietnam would take many years, during which it would be necessary to temporarily accept the division of the country...
by James Piereson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, along with progressive economists like Thomas Piketty and Paul Krugman, have made a case for redistributing income from the wealthy to the poor as a means of reducing inequalities in income and wealth. Meanwhile, public...
Faithless Execution
Building the Political Case for Obamas Impeachment
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy makes a compelling case for using it.The...
No Child Left Alone
Getting the Government Out of Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Uncle Sam is the worst helicopter parent in America.Children are taken from their parents because they are obese. Parents are arrested for letting their children play outside alone. Sledding and swaddling are banned. From games to school to breast-feeding to daycare, the overbearing bureaucratic state...
by Jared Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Technology continues to unlock new ways for Americans to live and work. To illustrate these changes, this broadside explores the promise of online platforms such as Uber and Airbnb. Unfortunately, instead of embracing innovation, many cities insist on applying antiquated regulations or completely...
The New Totalitarian Temptation
Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe’s migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while...
Architects of Power
Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
The United States is not a preternaturally inward-looking nation, and isolation is not the natural disposition of Americans. The real question is not whether Americans are prone to isolation or engagement, but how their engagement with the world has evolved, how events have made the United States...
by Joseph P. Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
As 2018 ended, an orchestrated propaganda campaign paralyzed U.S. foreign policy. The trigger was the killing in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi, a member of Saudi Arabia’s wealthy and politically powerful oligarchy. Mainstream media and misguided, melodramatic politicians hoodwinked millions by portraying...
What to Expect When No One's Expecting
America's Coming Demographic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.It’s all bunk. The “population...