McCarthy is the former federal prosecutor who convicted the notorious “Blind Sheikh” and other jihadists for waging a terrorist war that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  In his national bestseller, Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (Encounter 2008), he explored government’s conscious avoidance of the terrorist threat, which made the nation vulnerable to mass-murder attacks.  In The Grand Jihad he exposes a more insidious peril: government’s active suppression of the Islamist ideology that unabashedly vows to “conquer America.”  With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of government, Islamism doesn’t merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating Islamic enclaves in our midst and gradually foists Islam’s repressive law, sharia, on American life.  The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our constitutional order.  The prognosis for liberty could not be more dire.

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“When prosecution rather than war was our means of fighting terrorism, Andy McCarthy was the tip of the spear.  Now that we are at war, a new set of challenges besets us (including going back to prosecution as a means of fighting).  And, once again, Andy McCarthy is the tip of the spear–in educating and warning us both about the threat from radical Islam and the dangers of our own fecklessness in fighting it.  Everything Andy writes is must-reading, and must-heeding.”

William J. Bennett
Washington Fellow, The Claremont Institute; Radio Host

“The threats to our freedom and our security are not separate. For years, statists and Islamists have made common cause in a civilizational war. Their target is our Constitution and the culture of individual liberty that makes America, America. In The Grand Jihad, Andy McCarthy unveils this conspiracy like it’s never been exposed before. This is a clarion call from a fearless fighter for freedom. Read this book and you’ll understand what we’re up against and why we have to stop it.”

Mark R. Levin
Author of the Number One Bestseller Liberty & Tyranny; Radio Host

“Do you care about the survival of our country? Then you must read this book. The brilliant, brave, and stalwart Andy McCarthy exposes how our external Islamist enemies join with our internal Alinskyite enemies to destroy all that we hold dear. Every American must understand how the Grand Jihad of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Western civilization-undermining agenda of the Revolutionary Left operate in deadly sync. As McCarthy shows, this sabotage is taking place on our college campuses, in our courts, and with invaluable help from the enablers of the Obama White House. We must not submit.”

Michelle Malkin
Author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

In Why the West Is Best, Ibn Warraq, an Islamic scholar and a leading figure in Koranic criticism, offers a frank and authoritative defense of the West from the outside looking in. Warraq examines the strengths and freedoms often taken for granted in the West and contrasts them with the stunning lack of freedoms in the majority of societies in the world, tackling taboo subjects of racism in Asian culture, Arab slavery, and Islamic Imperialism along the way. 

 As Andrew Jackson said, “Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.” With new trials at home and abroad, Why the West Is Best reasserts this vigilance, and tells us that the struggle for Western civilization is a fight we must win.

The basic cause of all this unreason is a steady loss of faith in God. We tell ourselves that religion and reason are incompatible, but in fact the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible that gave us our concepts of reason, progress and an orderly world—the foundations of science and modernity.

The loss of religious belief has meant the West has replaced reason and truth with ideology and prejudice, which it enforces in the manner of a secular inquisition. The result has been a kind of mass derangement, as truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. In medieval-style witch-hunts, scientists who are skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts; Israel is ferociously demonized; and the United States is vilified over the war on terror—all on the basis of falsehoods and propaganda that are believed as truth.

Thus the West is losing both its rationality and its freedoms. It is succumbing to a “soft totalitarianism,” which not only is creating an ugly mood of intolerance but is undermining its ability to defend itself against Islamic aggression. While the Islamists are intent on returning the free world to the seventh century, the West no longer seems willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it brought into being.

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“A brilliant tour de force, beautifully written and powerfully argued.”

Norman Podhoretz, author of Why Are Jews Liberals?

“With ferocious courage, Melanie Phillips challenges a series of myths and irrationalities that have achieved canonical status in the contemporary world. If civilization depends on the ability to give dissenting voices a hearing, then The World Turned Upside Down may well be one of the most important tests of Western civilization in our time.”

 Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

“Melanie Phillips has written a fascinating book that is both urgent and important, provocative and deep. It’s almost a guide of the perplexed for our time.”

 William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard

 “One is disturbed each day by verifiably untrue statements touted as incontrovertible facts about hot-button issues. With cold, perceptive, exhaustive and persistent passion, Melanie Phillips dissects the phenomenon among disparate movements, to reach disturbing but compelling conclusions about the erosion of modern liberal society by ideologies whose surprising interconnections are meticulously identified. One can only hope that her book will penetrate the information cocoon into which many of our intelligentsia have sealed themselves.”

Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT

“A trenchant sequel to George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. Melanie Phillips courageously flushes out today’s equivalents of Orwell’s targets—those who with indignant self-righteousness suppress free debate and liberty itself.”

R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence (1993–1995)

There is a poetic justice – or historic justice – in the fact that England, the first country to expel the Jews in medieval times, has produced the richest literature of philosemitism in modern times.

 From Cromwell supporting the readmission of the Jews in the 17th century, to Macaulay arguing for the admission of Jews as Members of Parliament in the 19th century, to Churchill urging the recognition of the state of Israel in the 20th, many of England’s most eminent writers and statesmen have paid tribute to Jews and Judaism.  Their speeches and writing are powerfully resonant today, as are memorable novels by Walter Scott, Benjamin Disraeli, and George Eliot, which anticipated Zionism long before the emergence of that movement and look forward to a Jewish homeland in Israel.

 A recent history of anti-Semitism in England regretfully observes that English philosemitism is “a past glory.”  This book may recall England – and not only England – to that past glory and inspire other countries to emulate it.  It may also reaffirm Jews in their own faith and aspirations.

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 “Himmelfarb’s elegant essay on philosemitism is a welcome antidote to the contemporary tendency toward the lachrymose view that defines Jewish history through antisemitism. Himmelfarb is at her most erudite and illuminating in tracing its antithesis: that strain of English thought that accorded Jews everything from tolerance to admiration to near-envious reverence. A beautifully rendered meditation on a long neglected subject by one of our finest historians.”

 Charles Krauthammer

 “Gertrude Himmelfarb is one of the most gracious of social historians, unafraid to commit the twin heresies of seeing the best in people and events and hearing the ethical undertone in the symphony of time. In this new, necessary and faith-restoring book she reminds us that the history of Jews in England has not been an unbroken succession of hostilities and persecutions and that some very eminent English women and men, among them George Eliot, Matthew Arnold and Winston Churchill, admired both Judaism and the Jewish people. A much-needed corrective to the “lachrymose theory” that sees Jews as destined to be hated, Professor Himmelfarb’s work is testimony to hope at a time when we need it once again.”

 Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

 “Philo-Semitism has always been a minority enthusiasm in Britain, despite its being a foolproof indication of intelligence and good taste. Gertrude Himmelfarb has brought her unrivalled knowledge, penetrating intellect and elegant wit to the examination of the phenomenon, and in so doing identifies those brave but all too few Britons who have supported the Jews. Not coincidentally, they have tended to include, from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, many of the very greatest of the British Gentiles over the past three and a half centuries.”

Andrew Roberts, author of Storm of War

“With her usual meticulous scholarship and elegant analysis, our finest intellectual historian presents the long—but little known—four-century evolution of growing respect for Jews, Judaism, and (eventually) Zionism among notable English statesmen, philosophers, and writers—from the readmission of the Jews under Cromwell, to the arguments for toleration by Locke and Burke, to the support of political equality by Gladstone and Shaftsbury, to the admiring fictional portrayals by Walter Scott and George Eliot, to the philo-Zionism of Balfour and Churchill. With anti-Semitism again on the rise, Ms. Himmelfarb offers an encouraging reminder of a noble tradition and a much needed corrective to our post-Holocaust view of Jews merely as victims.”

                   Leon R. Kass, American Enterprise Institute

The European Union is both the cause and response to this profound existential unease.  It answers France’s need to be a great power, Germany’s desire to be other than German, and the desire of the defeated or retired politicians of all countries to remain powerful and influential ad infinitum.  It is in effect a giant pension fund for superannuated politicians, as well as a trough at which a large bureaucracy can feed. Everyone knows it is corrupt and holds the continent back, but no one sees any mechanism of changing it.

In The New Vichy Syndrome, Theodore Dalrymple traces the malaise back to the two great conflicts of the last century, with their disastrous though understandable effects upon self-confidence. As a result of the recent past, Europeans no longer believe in anything other than personal economic security, an increased standard of living, shorter working hours and long vacations in exotic locations. As a result, they are not in a frame of mind to face the challenges before them, whether of increased Islamic penetration or economic competition from the rest of the world.

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“This book is a typical Theodore Dalrymple product: erudite, witty, unfashionably blunt and, above all, wise.”

  Christopher Caldwell, author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

 “The greatest threat to Western culture and civilization has always come from within, primarily from the debilitating doubt and pre-emptive cringing of Europe’s intellectuals. Dalrymple’s penetrating analysis eloquently shows why the English-speaking peoples should keep themselves separate from this utterly self-defeating phenomenon.”

 Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War

 “The virtue of this book over others written on the subject of Europe’s malaise is that Dalrymple is a better writer, a deeper scholar, a more astute observer, and has seen more of life than anyone else who has yet addressed the topic. He is also at once funnier, sadder, more scathing and more generous.”

  Claire Berlinski, author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too

 “Displaying both breadth of learning and depth of philosophical understanding, The New Vichy Syndrome is a primer in the bad ideas that will continue to have baleful consequences for the civilization that created Western Civilization.”

 Bruce S. Thornton, National Fellow at the Hoover Insitution

 “The New Vichy Syndrome makes the case that the social and political arrangements prevalent in Europe are leading only to dead-ends for everybody. Losing confidence in their ability to have a future as worthwhile as their past, Europeans are taking the comfortable way out, simply surrendering to events in a reprise of the cowardice that overwhelmed France in the face of Nazi Germany. Theodore Dalrymple is not here just to sing a requiem, but to analyze the predicament and so avoid loss and surrender. Late as the hour is, this book’s insights and moral clarity are vital.”

 David Pryce-Jones, Senior Editor of National Review

 “Overall, this is one of Dalrymple’s friskier recent tomes: “What is life (as life in our cities now amply demonstrates) but an existential supermarket?”

 Steven Poole, The Guardian

 “[W]hat makes Dalrymple-Daniels valuable is his background, and his experience. His father was a Communist, his mother, a Jewish refugee from Germany… he also knows Africa well, and has spent his life as a doctor and psychiatrist working not least in some of the grimmest English prisons. And so in those political-cum-culture wars he is no chicken hawk or armchair warrior. He has been in the trenches and knows whereof he speaks.”

Geoggrey Wheatcroft, The National Interest

 “I have to say that I was blown away by this latest Dalrymple opus. For one thing, Theodore Dalrymple is a sparkling writer. He delivers the bad news with wit and wisdom. But this book seems to explain why Europe is supine. It’s a frightening thesis, and unfortunately Dalrymple doesn’t offer any ideas on how things might change or be changed. He ends on the question that was in my mind throughout the book: what does this portend for the United States?”

 Charlotte Hays, In Character

 “Those superficially aware of his immense body of work might think of Dalrymple predominantly as the chronicler (and mocker) of the criminal underclass, but his primary targets are intellectuals and the dishonest ideas they espouse.”

Ed West, CatholicHerald.co.uk

 “[W]ith Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) and Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (2008), The New Vichy Syndrome completes a three-part threnody on the victims of intellectual failure. Those victims, Dalrymple says, are all of us. We have been betrayed not just by the intellectuals’ failure to cleanse themselves of the polluting, mind-twisting taint of politics, but by the failure of the culture (or, as he might add, what’s left of it) to synthesize and make useful the episodic insanity of our times.”

 Paul Berman, Claremont Review of Books

In Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians, Marcello Pera reveals that not only is this wrong, it is also dangerous. The very ideas on which liberal societies are based and by which they can be justified—the dignity of the human person, the moral priority of the individual, the view that man is a “crooked timber” inclined to prevarication, the limited confidence in the power of the state to render him virtuous—are distinctively Christian or, more precisely, Judeo-Christian ideas. Take them away and the open society will collapse.

Anti-Christian secularism jeopardizes the identity of the West, leaving it with no conscience. The Founding Fathers of America, as well as major European intellectual figures such as Locke, Kant, and Tocqueville, knew how much our civilization depends on Christianity. “The challenges of our particular historical moment,” as Pope Benedict XVI calls them in the preface to the book, can be faced only if we stress the historical and conceptual link between Christianity and a free society.

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“Marcello Pera’s timely book goes to the heart of the malaise infecting Europe today—the malaise of a civilization built upon Christian values and Christian understandings, which no longer identifies itself clearly as Christian, and whose political class imagines that the secular philosophy of human rights is both an adequate replacement for the Christian faith and without need of a religious foundation. As Pera argues, the ideology of human rights without the Christian heritage falls into disarray and contradiction, and the society of Europe, when it ceases to call itself Christian, ceases to be a genuine society.”

Roger Scruton, Visiting Professor, University of St. Andrews, and Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

“The American civil rights movement of the 1960s would have been impossible in the absence of Christian support. Analogously, Senator Marcello Pera argues not only that the liberal principles of contemporary Europe derive from Christian roots, but also that invocation of the moral core of Christianity is crucial for the development of the muscular will necessary for securing those liberal principles from external and internal corrosive influences.  This book presents a clear and vigorous challenge to political liberalism—the secular ideology that liberal principles can survive and flourish if cut off from their Christian roots.  Both Americans and Europeans can profit from reading it with care.”

Michael J. White, Professor of Law and of Philosophy, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Money in a Free Society contains eighteen provocative essays on these questions from Tim Congdon, an influential economic adviser to the Thatcher government in the UK and one of the world’s leading monetary commentators. Congdon argues that academic economists and policy-makers have betrayed the intellectual legacy of both John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman.

These two great economists believed—if in different ways—in the need for steady growth in the quantity of money. But Keynes has been misunderstood as advocating big rises in public spending and large budget deficits as the only way to defeat recession. Under President Obama, that has led to an unsustainable explosion in American public debt. Meanwhile the Fed has allowed extreme volatility in the rate of money growth since 2006, forgetting Milton Friedman’s central message that the quantity of money should grow at roughly the same rate year after year. In Money in a Free Society Congdon calls for a return to stable money, and a better understanding of both Keynes and Friedman. The Great Recession is to be blamed on bad economic policies arising from false theories, not on weaknesses of the free market economy. There is nothing much the matter with the economies of the capitalist West, but there is a great deal wrong with today’s economics and economists.

As a respected scientist and consultant, Rich Trzupek has seen the EPA lose its focus on cleaning up the environment, turning instead to mindless bureaucracies and sweeping policies with negligible environmental impact. Meanwhile, the green industry continues to exploit bad science to sell the public on their aggressive agenda. The result, Trzupek reports, is a plethora of regulations that have warped incentives and thwarted American industry’s ability to create long-term wealth.

With these forces now focused on climate change and initiatives to reduce fossil fuel use, Regulators Gone Wild contends that the march to castigate and control industry is entering an unprecedented and dangerous phase that could put the economic fortunes of the country in peril for generations.

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“Originally designed to enforce commonsense standards to curb pollution, the EPA has become a job-killing, centralizing engine of ideological litigation and regulation that blocks economic progress at every turn, often with little to no net environmental benefit. With its ability to crush business decisions without Congressional approval, the EPA has also become the bureaucracy of choice for Presidents to exert even more control over the private sector with agenda-driven regulations, and Trzupek shows how President Obama’s EPA has become the worst offender.”

Newt Gingrich

“It takes a clear-eyed scientist like Rich Trzupek to brush aside ideology and alarmism about our health and environment, and to show that regulations and regulators are hurting us more than they’re helping us. Trzupek is no anti-regulation zealot—he welcomes government rules grounded in science and enforced with reason. But with deft analysis of data and horrifying tales about victims of regulation, Regulators Gone Wild paints a stark picture of excessive and irrational rules enforced by zealous and thoughtless bureaucrats.”

Timothy P. Carney, Senior Political Columnist, Washington Examiner; author, Obamanomics: How Barack Obama is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses

When I need an air quality expert I turn to Rich Trzupek. If you need to understand the realities of regulatory overkill, then Regulators Gone Wild is for you. Trzupek’s clear writing allows his years of environmental regulatory expertise to shine through in this must-read about why we need to tame the regulatory beast.

Steve Milloy, Publisher, JunkScience.com

In this eye-opening Broadside, Sol Stern debunks the Palestinians’ claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a “dispossession” at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world.

In Sovereignty or Submission, John Fonte reveals how this troubling and fast-rising movement aims to subordinate American sovereignty. The global governance movement does not seek legitimacy in democracy, but rather in its own partisan interpretation of human rights. The U.S. Constitution, globalists argue, must conform to “evolving norms of international law.”

The global governance project may be utopian, but the efforts to implement it constitute a very real threat to American democracy. As this movement spreads its influence over mainstream elite opinion, democratic decision making is likely to be increasingly curtailed—as it is today in the European Union. Whichever side prevails in the long run, the conflict between global governance and democratic sovereignty will be at the heart of world politics as far into the future as the eye can see.

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“For centuries, ‘consent of the governed’ has provided the only legitimate foundation for government. Yet, as John Fonte exposes with his timely and important new book, this notion is under attack. Fonte’s historically rich and analytically powerful narrative clearly outlines the conflict between democratic ideals and the aspirations of the global governance movement. I recommend his book to all those concerned by the prospect of our civilization regressing from an era of elected authority to one of imposed authority.”

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona

“John Fonte’s comprehensive dissection of the global governance impulse should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving America’s constitutional freedoms. Fonte asks the central question that the globalists consistently ignore: should Americans continue to govern themselves?”

Ambassador John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

“John Fonte accurately identifies the coalition of institutions, interests, and individuals that are promoting global governance and convincingly argues against their attempts to undermine the democratic nation-state. Whatever formal structure it might have, a global government would, in effect, control our lives, with no possibility for us to exert any real influence on it. In such a world order, the concept of citizenship would rapidly become extinct. But democracy without citizens is a contradiction in terms, and the currently popular notion of ‘world citizenship’ is only mystification and manipulation. My experience with one of its variants, the European Union, is not positive at all.”

Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic

“Dr. Fonte has removed the veils of circumlocution that surrounded the sovereignty issue, giving us an intellectual armory to defend our constitutional democracies against internal subversion or external attack. He has done everything that can be done as a political writer. It is now up to his readers to do the rest.”

John O’Sullivan, Vice President and Executive Editor of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty; author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World