Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
We Still Hold These Truths
Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Essential Guide to Rolling Back the Progressive Assault and Putting America Back on Course
Many Americans are concerned, frightened, angry. The country, it seems, is on the wrong track.
But what is the *right *course for America? Knowing what we stand against is not the same as...
The Triumph of Faith
Why the World is More Religious Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The**Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an incredible amount of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He explains why the...
It Takes a Family
Conservatism and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rick Santorum made his name in the 2012 presidential race with his principled conservatism. To understand Santorum’s worldview and vision for America, there is no better source than his New York Times bestselling book, It Takes a Family.
It Takes a Family is one of the most profound...
The False Promise of Big Government
How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because candidates fail to address the fundamental issues.
Patrick M. Garry offers a solution...
Small Is Still Beautiful
Economics as if Families Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Since then, millions of copies of Schumacher’s work have been sold in dozens of different languages; few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent...
The West and the Rest
Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies’ profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations,...
Darwin Day in America
How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.
Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized...
Conscience and Its Enemies
Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
“Many in elite circles yield to the temptation to believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot or a religious fundamentalist. Reason and science, they confidently believe, are on their side. With this book, I aim to expose the emptiness of that belief.” From the introduction:
Assaults...
The Clash of Orthodoxies
Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious believers from bringing their beliefs to bear on public matters. This is because secular liberals typically assume that their own positions on morally...
Plagues of the Mind
The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned...
The Just War Tradition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited the principles of “just war” to defend military actions from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya. Other politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited just war principles to condemn those same military interventions. How can the same tradition lead to such...
by Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few knew it at the time, but both men came close to dying.
Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that historians...
by Carle C. Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University. In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise...
The Devil Knows Latin
Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Devil Knows Latin is a provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Its range is broad and fascinating. Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a...