On October 11, 2023, Encounter Books celebrated twenty five years of publishing great books in defense of the Western Tradition with a black tie Gala at The National Building Museum in Washington, DC. To mark the occasion, Encounter honored Joshua T. Katz with The Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom and Victor Davis Hanson with The Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals.

An Excerpt from ‘Conviction Machine’