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In recent decades social conservatism has become not only a core component of Republican election victories, but a defining characteristic by which Republicans know themselves and are known to others. Yet today, much of elite Republican opinion has turned hostile to a political role for social issues, preferring they be paid only lip service and [...]
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Is there a higher earthly honor than the Nobel Peace Prize? It’s hard to think of one. In Peace, They Say, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of this famous and problematic award, from its inception in 1901 through more than a century of our darkest conflicts, moments of human triumph, and the trials of the [...]
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The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the end-game—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit…
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In the Age of Obama, the racism charge, rather than abating, has become more prevalent than ever. Why? Because to tell the truth about matters like crime, racial profiling, social fallout of single parent homes, or the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and justice would mean facing up to the soul-destroying [...]
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There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are [...]
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President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing—in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government—shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy.
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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 Submission: America’s Surrender to the Islamist Left, [...]
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We in the West in general, and in the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics like Susan Sontag and Noam Chomsky, and destructive fashions from postmodernism to multiculturalism, the West has lost all security in its [...]
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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.
read more...
In recent decades social conservatism has become not only a core component of Republican election victories, but a defining characteristic by which Republicans know themselves and are known to others. Yet today, much of elite Republican opinion has turned hostile to a political role for social issues, preferring they be paid only lip service and [...]
read more...
Is there a higher earthly honor than the Nobel Peace Prize? It’s hard to think of one. In Peace, They Say, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of this famous and problematic award, from its inception in 1901 through more than a century of our darkest conflicts, moments of human triumph, and the trials of the [...]
read more...
The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the end-game—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit…
read more...
In the Age of Obama, the racism charge, rather than abating, has become more prevalent than ever. Why? Because to tell the truth about matters like crime, racial profiling, social fallout of single parent homes, or the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and justice would mean facing up to the soul-destroying [...]
read more...
There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are [...]
read more...
President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing—in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government—shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy.
read more...
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 Submission: America’s Surrender to the Islamist Left, [...]
read more...
We in the West in general, and in the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics like Susan Sontag and Noam Chomsky, and destructive fashions from postmodernism to multiculturalism, the West has lost all security in its [...]
read more...
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.
read more...
We are excited to announce our Spring 2012 lineup, including new books by Harry Stein, John Fund, Peter Collier just to name a few. Download our latest catalog to learn more!
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Now all of our book pages feature Google Preview, so you can browse the interior pages of any Encounter book. Just click the 'Excerpt' tab on our book pages to look inside!
A new website from Harry Stein about how fear of talking honestly about race hurts us all.
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A corpus of law has been created without debate, without ratification by national legislatures, without democratic approval. Its motive force has been the activism of judges and the intimidating fervour of the human rights professionals.
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