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hardback, by Roger Scruton — 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 the Judeo Christian origins through Enlightenment philosophy. As we are confronted by militant atheism at home, and jihadist Islam abroad,[...]

hardback, by William F. Buckley Jr. — For much of the postwar period, 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 own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a[...]

hardback, by Kenneth Minogue — One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was the fate of miserable victims of communist regimes who climbed walls, swam rivers, dodged bullets, and found other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time as intellectuals in the West sentimentally proclaimed that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is being played out in our century:[...]

by Jed Babbin — Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the United States were too weak to affect the course of events. Obama, along with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has slashed missile defense, dramatically reduced investment in future military technologies, and broken promises to our allies. In addition, Obama is transforming our military[...]

paper, by Betsy McCaughey — The fight against ObamaCare is just beginning. The new health law, signed on March 23, 2010, destroys our constitutional rights. For the first time in history, the federal government will dictate how doctors treat their privately insured patients. That will affect you, no matter what brand-name health plan you have. Worse, some hospitals will stop taking Medicare. Where will seniors[...]

hardcover, by David Brog — Religious faith is under assault.  In books, movies and on television, secular critics are attacking religion and the religious with a renewed vigor.  These “new atheists” typically repeat a two-part mantra.  First they claim that religious faith is irrational.  Then they assert that irrational people possessed of such faith are responsible for most of the hatred and bloodshed that have[...]

hardback, by Philip Terzian — The United States is not a preternaturally inward-looking nation, and isolation is not the natural disposition of Americans. The real question is not whether Americans are prone to isolation or engagement, but how their engagement with the world has evolved, how events have made the United States a superpower, and how these developments have been guided by political leadership. Indeed, the great[...]

paperback, by John Bolton — American sovereignty is today more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from "friends" who urge that we share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives.  How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty reveals what sovereignty means to Americans, not as an abstraction but a vibrant component of self government, what the[...]

hardback, by Andrew C. McCarthy — The real threat to the United States is not terrorism.  The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy—freedom and individual liberty.  In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, bestselling author Andrew[...]

paperback, by William Voegeli — Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more – much more – to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality and mitigate the harshness of capitalism.  Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding question: What would be the size and[...]

paperback, by Mark Krikorian — President Obama and his allies have made no secret about their immigration goals: easy amnesty, loose enforcement, and ever-higher levels of legal immigration. One prominent labor leader has boasted that continued mass immigration “will solidify and expand the progressive coalition for the future.” In this Broadside, Mark Krikorian lays out the details of Obama’s open-borders approach[...]

paperback, by Melanie Phillips — In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. More and more people are signing up to weird and wacky cults, parapsychology, séances, paganism and witchcraft. There is widespread belief in ludicrous conspiracy theories, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack being an American plot. The basic cause of all this unreason is a steady loss of faith in God. We[...]

hardcover, by Roy W. Spencer — The Great Global Warming Blunder provides a simple explanation for why forecasts of a global warming Armageddon constitute a major scientific faux pas: climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when they have analyzed cloud behavior. Combining illustrations from everyday experience with state-of-the-art satellite measurements, Roy W. Spencer reveals how these[...]

paperback, by Patrick Garry — Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, conservatism possessed a vibrancy that resulted from spirited intellectual inquiry and open debate. However, in the years leading up to the 2008 elections, this energy seemed to fade. It was as if the conservative movement became less concerned with ideas and more concerned with the preservation of political power. In Conservatism Redefined, Patrick[...]

paperback, by Ishmael Jones — American Presidents make decisions on war unaware that the human source intelligence provided by the CIA is often false or nonexistent. From Harry Truman during the Korean War to George Bush during the War on Terror, modern Presidents have faced their darkest moments as a result of poor intelligence. The CIA has assured Congress and the President that intelligence programs in hostile areas of[...]

paperback, by Michael B. Mukasey — 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 the law requires and safer than we were before. Obama rejects as an unnecessary sacrifice of[...]

paperback, by Joshua Muravchik — When Barack Obama was asked to grade his first year in office, he said he thought he deserved a B-plus, perhaps even an A-minus. The American public seems to disagree, however, and handed him lower approval ratings than any recent president in this stage of his presidency. In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in[...]

paperback, by Guy Sorman — Beyond the glittering towers of the major Chinese cities, nearly one billion people still live in abject poverty. Rural China has been abandoned by the government: no schools, no health care, no hope. Discontent is expressed by rebellions, which are immediately put down by a brutal police force, while human-rights activists, religious leaders, and freethinkers are imprisoned or executed. As Guy[...]

hardcover, by Theodore Dalrymple — A profound malaise haunts Europe. On the one hand, everyone is aware that the continent is no longer in the forefront of anything, that it daily loses ground to other regions of the world, in economic growth, scientific research, influence and power; its population does not even reproduce itself; on the other it is seized with immobility, largely because those who are currently comfortably[...]

hardcover, by Wesley J. Smith — Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal[...]

paperback, by Andrew C. McCarthy — 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 the past eight years, a group of lawyers volunteered their services to America’s enemies. Now, the[...]

paperback, by Roy W. Spencer — 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 alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of[...]

paperback, by Roy W. Spencer — A New York Times Bestseller! Now in Paperback! 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[...]

by Richard B. McKenzie — For most people, the word “orphanage” conjures up images of poor little Oliver Twist pleading for more gruel. Many are convinced that the history of orphanages is a social welfare record of total devastation to the lives of the children who grew up in them. Indeed, many of the scholars who contributed to Home Away From Home began their research with the conventional negative view of[...]

hardcover, by Jean-François Revel — Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism incarnate was always vulnerable to criticism. Utopia, on the other hand, lies by definition beyond reproach. With the demise of the Soviet system,[...]