Encounter Books: 253 books
Regulating to Disaster
How Green Jobs Policies Are Damaging America's Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
What is a green job” anyway? Few can adequately define one. Even the government isn’t sure, you will learn in these pages. Still, President Obama and environmentalist coalitions such as the BlueGreen Alliance claim the creation of green jobs can save America’s economy, and are worth taxpayers’...
Neither Beast Nor God
The Dignity of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought...
Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity
The Challenge for Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement,’ for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial,...
Leading a Worthy Life
Finding Meaning in Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer...
The Education Invasion
How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Most Americans had no idea what Common Core was in 2013, according to polls. But it had been creeping into schools nationwide over the previous three years, and children were feeling its effects. They cried over math homework so mystifying their parents could not help them, even in elementary school....
by Charles C. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The IRS scandal is far more complicated than it appears-and more pernicious. Its roots go back to its founding but modern technology has accelerated the harm that a few malicious IRS administrators can do to their political enemies.
Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the congressional...
by Sally C. Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
President Barack Obama has declared that his signature health reform law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is here to stay.” But his days in the White House are numbered, and the law has failed: insurance premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed, patients are losing access to...
Art from the Swamp
How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Few Americans are aware that Washington is the country’s largest single patron of art. Every year a group of unelected federal bureaucrats and congressmen spends millions of taxpayer dollars on monuments, sculptures, buildings, plays, and exhibitions, largely without public knowledge or involvement....
Judicial Fortitude
The Last Chance to Rein In the Administrative State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In this book, Peter J. Wallison argues that the administrative agencies of the executive branch have gradually taken over the legislative role of Congress, resulting in what many call the administrative state. The judiciary bears the major responsibility for this development because it has failed...
Coming Home
Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government programs that assume their functions and a hostile...
The Heroic Heart
Greatness Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield....
Regulators Gone Wild
How the EPA is Ruining American Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Rich Trzupek has spent over 25 years engaged in combat with the environmental movement on the front lines, helping America’s industrial sector defend itself against the increasingly aggressive tactics that environmental advocacy groups and their allies in the Environmental Protection Agency employ....
Unmasking the Administrative State
The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency shocked the political establishment, triggering a wave of hysteria among the bicoastal elite that may never subside. The biggest shockwaves of all, however, were felt not in the progressive parishes of Manhattan or San Francisco, but in the halls of...
The Lives of the Constitution
Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Tartakovsky...