John Yoo on Killer Robots, Space Weapons and The Future of Warfare | Close Encounters Ep. 1 Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo and Ben Weingarten discuss Yoo’s new book ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ and a series of topics including the revolution in military technology, what the future of war looks like on land, air and sea, ethical concerns around robots and autonomous weaponry, the Iran Deal, how to stop North Korea, why we are losing the War on Terror, and a great deal more. Learn more about ‘Striking Power’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Encounter Books Gala — Scott W. Atlas, MD receives the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals Encounter Books 2023-01-05 | WASHINGTON, DC—On December 1st, 2022, Encounter Books honored Scott W. Atlas, MD with The Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals. Read a transcript of Scott W. Atlas's remarks on encounterbooks.com. SCOTT W. ATLAS, MDScott W. Atlas, MD, is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom. Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic issues related to the future of technology-based medical advances. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and in other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for President, as well as having counselled members of the U.S. Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. From July to December 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He is the author, most recently, of A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America.DR. LARRY P. ARNNLarry P. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. Dr. Arnn is on the board of directors of The Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Claremont Institute.
Encounter Books Gala — Heather Mac Donald receives the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom Encounter Books 2023-01-05 | WASHINGTON, DC—On December 1st, 2022, Encounter Books honored Heather Mac Donald with The Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom. Read a transcript of Heather Mac Donald's remarks on encounterbooks.com. HEATHER MAC DONALDHeather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Mac Donald is the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, and, most recently, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, which argues that toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture.RAYMOND W. KELLYWith fifty years in public service, including fourteen years as police commissioner of the City of New York, Raymond W. Kelly is one of the world's most well-known and highly esteemed leaders in law enforcement. Kelly was appointed police commissioner in January 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, making Kelly the longest serving police commissioner in the city's history. He is currently the CEO of The Guardian Group.
Devin Nunes on Countdown to Socialism | Close Encounters Ep. 9 Encounter Books 2020-10-22 | In the ninth episode of Close Encounters, Devin Nunes and Ben Weingarten discuss the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations, the threat of a surging socialist movement in America, and a great deal more. Devin Nunes is a Member of Congress representing California’s 22nd District, located in the San Joaquin Valley. He is the author of Countdown to Socialism, now available from Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/books/countdown-to-socialismBen Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and a 2019 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow of The Fund for American Studies. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Support Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/donateFollow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah.... The license is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....
C. Bradley Thompson on Americas Revolutionary Mind | Close Encounters Ep. 8 Encounter Books 2020-10-16 | In the eighth episode of Close Encounters, C. Bradley Thompson and Ben Weingarten discuss the moral revolution of America's founding, the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, and a great deal more. C. Bradley Thompson is Professor of Political Philosophy at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He is the author of America's Revolutionary Mind, now available from Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/books/americas-revolutionary-mindBen Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and a 2019 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow of The Fund for American Studies. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Support Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/donateFollow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah.... The license is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....
Myron Magnet on Clarence Thomass Legacy | Close Encounters Ep. 6 Encounter Books 2020-05-19 | In the sixth episode of Close Encounters, Myron Magnet and Ben Weingarten discuss the originalists’ battle to defend the Constitution, the fight against the administrative state, and the legacy of Clarence Thomas and a great deal more. Myron Magnet is the editor-at-large for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. He is the author of Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution, now available from Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/books/clarence-thomas-lost-constitutionBen Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and a 2019 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow of The Fund for American Studies. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Support Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/donateFollow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah.... The license is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....
Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Breaking Up Big Tech | Close Encounters Ep. 5 Encounter Books 2019-11-04 | In the fifth episode of Close Encounters, Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds and Ben Weingarten discuss Reynolds' belief in the need to use antitrust laws to break up collusive Big Tech companies and his response to libertarian critiques of such a plan, the corrosive impact of social media on its users, the parallels between how ideas spread in the modern social media ecosystem and contagions in early cities, the state of American politics, Trump as a modern Teddy Roosevelt and a great deal more. Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and blogs at Instapundit.com.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and a 2019 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow of The Fund for American Studies. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Support Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/donateFollow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah.... The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Sir Roger Scruton on Unrest in the West, Puritanical Progressivism and More | Close Encounters Ep. 4 Encounter Books 2018-12-11 | In the fourth episode of Close Encounters, Sir Roger Scruton and Ben Weingarten discuss political unrest in the West and its historical context, the puritanical nature of progressivism and attempts by its adherents to stifle dissent, the imperative to defend free speech and a great deal more. Sir Roger Scruton is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and recipient of the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Support Encounter Books: encounterbooks.com/donateFollow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah.... The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Victor Davis Hanson on The Fate of the West, Trump, and The Resistance | Close Encounters Ep. 3 Encounter Books 2018-06-20 | In the third episode of Close Encounters, Victor Davis Hanson and Ben Weingarten discuss the decline of the American academy, threats to Western civilization from within and without, 'The Resistance' and its assault on the Trump presidency, and a great deal more. Read Victor Davis Hanson's contribution to 'Vox Populi: The Perils & Promises of Populism' here: encounterbooks.com/books/vox-populi-the-perils-promises-of-populism/. Listen to Ben and Victor's interview on populism here: soundcloud.com/encounterbooks/victor-davis-hanson-full.Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and National Review contributor.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, Senior Contributor at The Federalist and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Why Environmentalism Will Cost the Democrats Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall explains why green billionaires are at loggerheads over environmental policy with the formerly Democratic working-class. Darwall argues it will be politically devastating for the Left if energy costs rise due to environmentalist policies.Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Exposing the Nazi Roots of Environmentalism Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall argues that Nazi policies and ideals on the environment are inextricably linked with the modern environmental movement. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Inside Sweden’s Environmentalist Power Grab Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall suggests that Sweden, beginning with Olof Palme, has had a disproportionate influence on world environmental policy, driven in part by its soft totalitarian ideology. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
How the Acid Rain Scare Drove the Climate Change Fraud Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall chronicles how the fraud of the acid rain scare created a playbook for today’s climate change movement. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Why the Paris Climate Accord Threatens America’s Supremacy Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall asserts that the debate over the Paris climate accord represents a fight for America’s soul when it comes to separation of powers, free speech and capitalism.Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Climate Change is Virtue Signaling for the Rich Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall explains why climate change has cynically been adopted as the cause célèbre by America’s wealthy elites, in particular in Silicon Valley. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/nnXatjSeWWE.Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny/.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
The Nazi Roots of Environmentalism and the Climate Change Fraud | Close Encounters Ep. 2 Encounter Books 2018-01-24 | In the second episode of Close Encounters, Rupert Darwall and Ben Weingarten discuss Darwall’s new book ‘Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex’ and a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, Sweden’s environmentalist power grab, the anti-capitalist underpinnings of the environmentalist movement, the links between the acid rain fraud and today’s global warming movement, why the Paris climate accord represent a battle for America’s soul and much more. Learn more about Rupert Darwall’s ‘Green Tyranny’ at encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny.Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on Attacks on Free Speech on America’s College Campuses Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo talks about the rise of campus craziness and the anti-free speech paradigm that is crippling the values and principles that made American higher education the envy of the world. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo Says We are Not Winning the War on Terror Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo explains why, 16 years after 9/11, the U.S. is not winning the Global War on Terror, pointing to failures of the Obama administration in the rise of ISIS, destruction of actionable intelligence through its drone program and beyond. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media.Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on How to Stop North Korea Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo details a multifaceted plan to constrain North Korea, including beefed up and layered missile defense and coercive efforts including cyberattacks and a full economic blockade. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on Why America Should Nix the Iran Deal Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo discusses how he would approach the Iran Deal and explains why, 10 years from now, Iran will likely have a nuclear weapon and be a much richer, more formidable enemy than it otherwise would have been. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on Why Hi-Tech Warfare Will Save More Lives Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo pushes back against critics of hi-tech warfare, arguing that advanced weapons are in fact more moral than conventional weapons in that they actually reduce killing and destruction. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on the Revolution in Military Technology Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo explores the revolution in military technology on land, air and sea—from robots and drones to cyber weapons. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo on Why America’s Reluctance to Use Force Risks World Peace Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo explains why our reluctance to use force in the face of growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and in crises like the Syrian Civil War, poses a greater risk to global security than American military adventurism. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
John Yoo Explains Why the Geneva Convention’s Rules of War Help Terrorists Encounter Books 2017-11-15 | In the first episode of Close Encounters, John Yoo explains how the rules of war under the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention come from a pro-Third World, pro-guerilla, pro-terrorist worldview intended to bolster such groups and hamstring the West. Watch the full interview at youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE.Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. Encounter Books is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation dedicated to strengthening the marketplace of ideas. Learn more at www.encounterbooks.com. Follow us:facebook.com/EncounterBookstwitter.com/EncounterBooksinstagram.com/EncounterBooks'Please Listen Carefully' by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The song is downloadable here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully. The license is available here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.
Roger L. Simon Discusses I Know Best Encounter Books 2016-06-16 | On The Wall Street Journal’s “Opinion Journal,” author Roger L. Simon and Mary Kissel discussed his new book I Know Best, moral narcissism and its origins in “the least great generation.”
F.H. Buckley talks Immobility Encounter Books 2016-05-13 | For too many Americans, the dream of a steady job, simple home, family and comfortable middle class life feels like a thing of the past. F.H. Buckley discusses the collapse of social mobility in America and blamed the failures of "aristocratic” elite for the Trump and Sanders phenomenon.
Encounter Books Podcast Ep. 01: Jay Nordlingers Children of Monsters Encounter Books 2016-01-19 | Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at National Review and music critic for The New Criterion, sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new title, 'Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.' During the interview, Jay and Ben discuss a variety of topics, including what motivated Jay to study the family's of the world's most ruthless tyrants, his fascinating findings on the Stalins and Mussolinis, the admirable Amini son, the West's frequent romanticization of dictators, and a great deal more.Read 'Children of Monsters': http://tinyurl.com/nb5w6az'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
Liberal Oasis: The Truth About Israel Encounter Books 2014-05-15 | Israel has become the most reviled of states; and the international Left—world church bodies, British labor unions, American human rights groups and the like—has been especially vociferous in its condemnations. But, ironically, Israel's humane accomplishments in the very realms that the Left most cherishes compare favorably with those of most other countries. This is especially true if Israel is compared with other countries in its region, or with other countries under external duress, or with the other states born after World War Two that have so often stumbled at nation-building. This video shows that in the achievement of liberty, equality, fraternity, Israel is one of the world's most remarkable and admirable societies.Learn more in Joshua Muravchik's e-book Liberal Oasis: The Truth About Israel... for just 99 cents. http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Oasis-Joshua-Muravchik-ebook/dp/B00HS4EQGA
The Truth About Gun Control Encounter Books 2013-07-11 | READ THE BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594037124The right to keep and bear arms has always been central to the American identity. The American Revolution was sparked by British attempts to confiscate guns. After the Civil War, America changed the Constitution to defeat America's first gun control organization, the Ku Klux Klan. When Hitler and Stalin demonstrated how gun registration paves the way for gun confiscation which paves the way for genocide, Americans resolved to make sure it never happens here.Gun control is not an issue of left vs. right, or urban vs. rural. Liberal icons such as Hubert Humphrey and Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the right to arms as fundamental to preventing large-scale tyranny by criminal governments, and small-scale tyranny by ordinary criminals. Barack Obama's gun control program is founded on disinformation, and is a direct assault on the Constitution.To learn more read The Truth about Gun Control by David B. Kopel: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-truth-about-gun-control
Six Reasons Why Men Are Avoiding Marriage, with Helen Smith, Ph.D. Encounter Books 2013-07-03 | Learn more in Helen Smith's "Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters"Buy the hardcover: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594036756Buy it for Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00APDFXKOBuy it for Nook: http://bit.ly/14NMiRKAmerican society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.
Andrew C. McCarthy on the Arab Spring Encounter Books 2013-04-29 | The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced.Every human heart does not yearn for freedom. As Andrew C. McCarthy explains, In the Islam of the Middle East, "freedom" means something very nearly the opposite of what the concept connotes to Westerners -- it is the freedom that lies in total submission to Allah and His law. That law, sharia, is diametrically opposed to core components of freedom as understood in the West -- beginning with the very idea that man is free to make law for himself, irrespective of what Allah has ordained.Learn more in Andrew C. McCarthy's Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.Now in paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Spring-Fever-Il...and e-book: http://www.amazon.com/Spring-Fever-Il...
The K-12 Implosion Encounter Books 2013-03-06 | Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been putting ever-growing amounts of money into its K-12 education system, while getting steadily poorer results. Now parents are losing faith in public schools, new alternatives are appearing, and change is on the way. Learn more in Glenn Reynolds's The K-12 Implosion: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-k-12-implosion
Is America Becoming Europe? Encounter Books 2013-02-25 | Across the Atlantic, Americans see European economies faltering under enormous debt, overburdened welfare states, governments controlling close to fifty percent of the economy, high taxation, heavily regulated labor markets, aging populations, and large numbers of public sector workers. They also see a European political class that is unable -- and, in many cases, unwilling -- to implement economic reform. This timely and sobering video explains why Americans cannot ignore the "canary in the coalmine" across the pond in determining our future. We must ask the question: "Is America becoming Europe?"To learn more read Dr. Samuel Gregg's Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594036373 "This is a book that every economist, historian, and politician should read."— Amity Shlaes, syndicated Bloomberg News columnist"Europe is a terrifying example of what happens when the state gets too large and the money runs out. Don't imagine that it couldn't happen to you."— Daniel Hannan, British Conservative Member of the European Parliament
Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate Encounter Books 2012-11-14 | For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America's colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. This video explains how higher education fails to teach its students to become critical thinkers by supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues.For more on this issue, read Greg Lukianoff's new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Visit www.unlearningliberty.com
The Truth about Tax Fairness Encounter Books 2012-10-15 | President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. This video explores what it means for our economic system and our economic results to be "fair." Does it mean that everyone has a fair shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same? Does it mean the government is supposed to play the role of Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor? The surprising answer: Nations with free market systems that allow ALL people to get ahead are the fairest of them all.Learn more in Who's the Fairest of Them All? The Truth about Taxes, Opportunity, and Wealth in America by Stephen Moore: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/whos-the-fairest-of-them-all
Escape from North Korea Encounter Books 2012-10-09 | It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad.Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the harrowing story of the North Koreans' quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWS from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God.Learn more here: http://www.melaniekirkpatrick.com
Voter Fraud 101 Encounter Books 2012-10-01 | The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. It is also likely to be one of the closest, a fact that highlights serious concerns about voter fraud and bureaucratic incompetence in the conduct of elections. If we don't take notice, we could see another debacle like the Bush-Gore Florida recount of 2000.Learn more in Who's Counting? How Vote Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk by John Fund and Hans Von Spakovksy: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/whos-counting-how-vote-fraudsters-and-bureaucrats-put-your-vote-at-risk
The Illusion of Islamic Democracy Encounter Books 2012-09-12 | The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced.Learn the truth about The Arab Spring in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, the explosive new E-Book from New York Times best-selling author and Amazon.com #1 best-selling author Andrew C. McCarthy. Visit andrewcmccarthy.com or encounterbooks.com for details.
The Dependency Agenda Encounter Books 2012-07-18 | Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to "fight poverty" -- in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on antipoverty programs.The Dependency Agenda uncovers the hidden politics of the welfare state and documents the historical evidence that proves that Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" was designed to do one thing: maximize the number of Americans dependent upon the government. The welfare state was never meant to eliminate privation; it was created to keep Democrats in power.Learn more here: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-dependency-agenda
The Higher Education Bubble Encounter Books 2012-06-27 | America is facing a higher education bubble. Like the housing bubble, it is the product of cheap credit coupled with popular expectations of ever-increasing returns on investment, and as with housing prices, the cheap credit has caused college tuitions to vastly outpace inflation and family incomes. Now this bubble is bursting.Learn more at: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-higher-education-bubble
Theyll Call This Video Racist Encounter Books 2012-05-29 | 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 pathologies of urban black culture. Instead, black leaders and their guilty white allies blame these problems on historic oppression and lack of government aid, and demonize those who challenge such views as -- what else? -- racist.
Obamas Education Takeover Encounter Books 2012-02-15 | By using billions of dollars in federal funding to strong arm states to adopt national standards of dubious quality, the Obama administration has raised federal intrusion into education to new heights, transferring control over the nation's classrooms to anonymous federal bureaucrats, special interest lobbies, and insider experts, ultimately rendering parents and taxpayers powerless.Learn more here: http://amzn.to/A86N41
The Grand Jihad Encounter Books 2012-02-03 | 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. In The Grand Jihad, bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy provides a harrowing account of how the global Islamist movement's jihad involves far more than terrorist attacks, and how it has found the ideal partner in President Barack Obama, whose Islamist sympathies run deep.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 concealment 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.Learn more here: http://amzn.to/zbPQIK
The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street Encounter Books 2011-11-16 | Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/cymkpu2 Based on Richard A. Epstein's new Broadside, this video outlines the differences between the classical liberalism of the Tea Parties and the progressive agenda advanced by the OWS movement, and reveals that the painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck, but the product of flawed institutional design. We are reaping the harvest of efforts to reinvigorate the progressive programs of the New Deal that stress high progressive taxes, large transfer payments, strong labor laws, and major barriers to free trade. This combination of public finance and market regulation has proved a potent force for disaster. Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School.
The EPAs Green Tyranny Encounter Books 2011-10-05 | Read Rich Trzupek's How The EPA's Green Tyranny Is Stifling America here: http://tinyurl.com/3tqwfzc The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama's EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Jackson's EPA has assumed broad new powers and promulgated sweeping new regulations unlike anything America has seen since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were signed into law 40 years ago. While much of the public has focused on the EPA's plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, the agency's power grab extends into far more areas of society and the economy than fossil-fuel use alone. This video explains why Obama's EPA is different and more dangerous than any other since the agency was created. While the tentacles of this EPA are silently creeping into our lives, Lisa Jackson smilingly assures us that everything the EPA does generates revenue -- instead of costing industry billions of dollars and America hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Debunking the Palestine Lie Encounter Books 2011-09-19 | Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/3lmo7ce Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East. This video 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. Learn more here: http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/a-century-of-palestinian-rejectionism-and-jew-hatred Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/EncounterBooks Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/EncounterBooks
Government Unions and the Bankrupting of America Encounter Books 2011-07-25 | Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/3r9jxvx Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the collective bargaining rights revolution of the 1960s and 70s. In this video, Daniel DiSalvo exposes how these unions have created cartels with their political allies, mostly in the Democratic Party, to the detriment of the taxpaying public.
Why The Global Warming Agenda Is Wrong Encounter Books 2011-06-29 | SHARE THIS VIDEO: A debunking of the global warming agenda, from Roy W. Spencer, former NASA climatologist and climate expert. For more on this topic, purchase his new Broadside, "The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda" by clicking here: http://amzn.to/jYWzEH.
