Encounter Books: 253 books
by Greg Lukianoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punishing individuals for allegedly offensive utterances. And academia already an institution in which free speech is in decline has grown still more intolerant,...
What Adam Smith Knew
Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? Are there moral reasons to support capitalism, or to oppose it? In this time of globalization and economic turbulence, these questions could not be more timely...
by Roy W. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.
While...
Climate Confusion
How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry...
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Hope, Mercy, Justice and Autonomy in the American Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the...
by Thomas Joscelyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to be closed within one year. It was one of the new president’s first acts in office. The President explained that closing Guantanamo would return America to the moral high ground”...
How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror
Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
IN this illuminating Broadside, former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey shows how Barrack Obama has taken the war on terror from the adult realities of George W. Bush, where hard choices were faced and made, and the nation kept safe, to an adolescent fantasy world where we can at once be nobler than...
by John Fund
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
One of the easiest ways to increase public cynicism about elections is to change the rule book to make the laws governing how we vote more vague and less rigorous. “Reforms” have been passed amid claims they would increase voter turnout. They haven’t - but they have made it easier to commit absentee...
How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice
Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.
In this eye-popping Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows that the biggest beneficiaries have been jihadists. For...
I Know Best
How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn't Already
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama era-with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals-we have a full blown epidemic of what has recently...
by David Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism-the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes the tragic...
by Philip Hamburger
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional?
A similar sort of power was once...
Saving Justice
Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor,...
Stealing Elections
How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist. If nothing is done to address the growing...