Encounter Books: 253 books
by Sol Stern, Peter W. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea)
by Sol Stern
In the past few decades as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America’s classrooms. Now, for...
Mortal Follies
Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
It's not that the dignified and rarefied old Episcopal Church quit believing in God. It's that the God you increasingly hear spoken of in Episcopal circles is infinitely tolerant and given to sudden changes of mind--not quite the divinity you thought you were reading about in the scriptures. Episcopalians...
The Idol of Our Age
How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure...
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians
The Religious Roots of Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence. In all influential environments, the widespread watchword...
On Liberty and Its Enemies
Essays of Kenneth Minogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This collection of nineteen of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful...
Vox Populi
The Perils and Promises of Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth...
The Smart Society
Strengthening Americas Greatest Resource, Its People
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans-not just a privileged elite-smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation’s safety net.” The spectacular,...
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals....
Brother Tariq
The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Tariq Ramadan is a global phenomenon. A Swiss-born Muslim activist, he is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical group credited with inspiring modern Islamic radicalism. Ramadan is fluent in English, French and Arabic. In Europe, he is the most quoted and circulated writer...
The Case for Polarized Politics
Why America Needs Social Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
No movement resembling American social conservatism exists anywhere else in the world of affluent democracy encompassing western Europe and Japan. This simple, undeniable fact has led many commentators to treat social conservatism as a retro” movement soon to disappear in the U. S. as well, an...
Collapse
A World in Crisis and the Urgency of American Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Collapse takes stock of a volatile and threatening international environment by looking at some of the underlying causes and flashpoints—the principal one being the failure of institutions and elites to respond to their constituencies and address the problems of our age. This is a problem spanning...
The Republican Workers Party
How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Republican Workers Party is the future of American presidential politics, says F.H. Buckley. It’s a socially conservative but economically middle-of-the-road party, offering a way back to the land of opportunity where our children will have it better than we did. That is the American Dream,...
Confronting Terror
9/11 and the Future of American National Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
After the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States went to war. With thousands of Americans killed, billions of dollars in damage, and aggressive military and security measures in response, we are still living with the war a decade later. A change of presidential administration has not dulled controversy...
by Lance T Izumi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing in addition to huge spending commitments...