Encounter Books: 253 books
by Peter Ferrara
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax. That is because the tax increases of Obamacare become effective that year, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which Obama has refused to renew for the nation’s small...
Schools for Misrule
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools...
Culture of Death
The Age of Do Harm Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He...
Admirable Evasions
How Psychology Undermines Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they...
by Kevin D. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to fight poverty” in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before...
The Rape of the Masters
How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2005
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told,...
by Mark P. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Are robots finally replacing humans? Does the emerging age of artificial intelligence and automation mean we will soon see “peak jobs” and the need for a Universal Basic Income to support a widening swath of hapless citizens unsuited for employment in a primarily “knowledge” workforce? Improving...
The God That Did Not Fail
How Religion Built and Sustains the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Secular humanists and other progressives” have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem: those who were supposed to be liberated by the secular gospel that God is Dead aren’t buying it. Except for some parts of western Europe and in countries...
The Faithful Departed
The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization.The collapse...
David's Sling
A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works-from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica-histories...
Living the Call
An Introduction to the Lay Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Since 1965 the number of priests in the United States has fallen by some 30,000. But over that same time period, more than 30,000 laypeople have come into the employ of parishes and other Church institutions. Laypeople have stepped up to serve in a variety of new ministries, and they are relieving...
Renewal
How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the end” of the Catholic priesthood. Demands for an end to celibacy, coupled with calls for women’s ordination, dominated discussions on the effectiveness of the Catholic Church in America. Renewal argues...
How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda
A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
While Americans focus on terrorism, a more insidious Islamist threat to our way of life lurks. It is the agenda of sharia, Islam’s authoritarian legal and political system. The global Islamist movement aims, in the words of the international Muslim Brotherhood, to destroy the West by sabotaging...
Liberty and Civilization
The Western Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
An essential volume of essays commissioned by the American Spectator and edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization examines the intellectual and spiritual traditions of our belief in individual liberty, from its Judeo Christian origins on through Enlightenment philosophy. As...