Encounter Books: 253 books
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s...
The Revolt Against the Masses
How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism-the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama-began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the...
America-Lite
How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders—and each other?In...
by Melanie Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism...
The Longest Romance
The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Alone among world leaders, Castro came to within inches of igniting a global nuclear holocaust.But...
by Harry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and justice would mean facing up to the soul-destroying...
Culture Counts
Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge,...
The Demon in Democracy
Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think....
by Michael Novak, Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding...
The Servile Mind
How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes...
The Great Divide
Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in...
by Andrew C McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In January 2015, Muslim terrorists massacred cartoonists and writers at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, proclaiming to be avenging Islam’s prophet. The rampage, which included the murders of hostages at a kosher market, prompted global leaders and throngs of citizens to rally...
Future Tense
The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America’s economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed.
Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment...
Making David into Goliath
How the World Turned Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
During the Six-Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought, and when the Arabs...