The latest releases from Encounter Books.
cloth, by Brian C. Anderson and Adam Thierer —
The alternative-media revolution of the last twenty years has smashed the liberal monopoly over news outlets and created a true marketplace of ideas. Rather than fight back with their own beliefs, today’s liberals work relentlessly to smother this new universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance reform and media[...]
hardcover, by Yuval Levin —
From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science in recent years have fallen into the familiar categories of
cloth, by John Kekes —
The political system of contemporary democracies is far from perfect and our dissatisfactions with it are many. Nevertheless it is the envy of the world and the finest political system that has thus far emerged in the course of human history. Its chief merit is that it provides the political goods – such as liberty, toleration, justice,[...]
cloth, by Ishmael Jones —
American Presidents make decisions on war unaware that the human source intelligence provided by the
cloth, by Eric Cohen —
We live in an age of unprecedented human power—over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought us remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more comfortable than ever before. But our gratitude[...]
cloth, by Herbert London —
In this timely and wide-ranging book, one of
hardcover, by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch — After years of booming business and unbelievable wealth creation, the economy has slowed, stunned by a mortgage crisis that has only reinforced the notion of big businesses as insatiable masters of the universe with little regard for the public. The critics of capitalism have emerged from every corner to harangue those who create wealth with charges of greed, thievery, and[...]
hardcover, by Guy Sorman —
The Western press these days is full of stories on
hardcover, by Andrew C. McCarthy —
Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the
hardcover, by Roy Spencer —
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
hardcover, by Don Eberly — Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at “the bottom of the pyramid” is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need[...]
hardcover, by James Bowman — Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the “mainstream media” is in crisis—a crisis underscored as much by declining authority as declining circulation and viewership—no one has explained its intellectual and moral causes. James Bowman, media critic for The New Criterion, provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. In[...]
hardcover, by Philip F. Lawler — The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture, 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 of Catholicism in Boston became[...]
hardcover, by Caroline Fourest —
The name of Tariq Ramadan is well known in the West. Thanks to his urbane manner and articulate way of expressing himself – in a number of languages – this Swiss-born academic is a regular contributor to television and radio features dealing with Islam (and Islamism) and the West. In[...]
