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The Encounter Books Podcast

183 Episodes

39 minutes | May 15, 2018
Joseph Tartakovsky on The Lives of the Constitution - Full Interview
Joseph Tartakovsky sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'The Lives of the Constitution', and its ten historical characters including their impact on and response to the American Founding, the development of the administrative state, constitutional law, the perversion of the courts, war powers and much more. Learn more in 'The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America's Supreme Law': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-lives-of-the-constitution/ Joseph Tartakovsky is the is the James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
50 minutes | May 3, 2018
Leon Kass on How to Lead a Worthy Life - Full Interview
Leon Kass sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'Leading a Worthy Life', and a series of topics including finding meaning in a modern age, the decline but potential for rebirth of core values and principles of Western civilization, grappling with scientific progress and ethics and much more. Learn more in 'Leading a Worthy Life': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/leading-worthy-life/ Leon R. Kass is a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
37 minutes | Apr 18, 2018
Ryan T. Anderson on the Transgender Moment - Full Interview
Ryan T. Anderson sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment', and a series of topics including the science and politics around transgenderism, stories of those who have detransitioned, the influence of transgender ideology in schools and much more. Learn more in 'When Harry Became Sally': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/when-harry-became-sally-responding-to-the-transgender-moment/ Ryan T. Anderson William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter: @RyanTAnd. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
34 minutes | Apr 3, 2018
Conrad Black on Trump's Place in the History of Populism
Lord Conrad Black joins Ben Weingarten to discuss Lord Black's essay in “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” Lord Black and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the history of American populism and President Donald Trump's place in it, an assessment of Trump's populist political agenda, the poisonous legacy of Watergate, The Resistance, the 2018 midterm elections and much more. Learn more about 'Vox Populi': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/vox-populi-the-perils-promises-of-populism/ Conrad Black is a British peer, former publisher of numerous publications including The London Daily Telegraph and the Daily Spectator, and a prolific columnist at National Review and elsewhere. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: https://tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
34 minutes | Mar 21, 2018
Sally C. Pipes on The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care - Full Interview
Sally C. Pipes joins Ben Weingarten to discuss her new Encounter Broadside “The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care”, the state of Obamacare, how staggeringly wrong our politicians were about Medicare and Medicaid, and much more. Read 'The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/false-promise-single-payer-health-care/ Sally C. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute where she also serves as Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: https://tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
20 minutes | Mar 6, 2018
Glenn Harlan Reynolds on The Judiciary's Class War - Full Interview
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, aka the Instapundit, sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new Encounter Broadside 'The Judiciary's Class War', and a series of topics including the split in the American body politic, class and judicial philosophy, the court's activism on major political issues, and much more. Learn more in 'The Judiciary's Class War': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/judiciarys-class-war/ Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He blogs at http://instapundit.com. Follow him on Twitter: @instapundit. Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: https://tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
24 minutes | Feb 27, 2018
Daniel Hannan on Populism, the EU, and the Hangover from the Financial Crisis - Full Interview
British MEP Daniel Hannan sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss MEP Hannan's essay in the new book “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” MEP Hannan and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the anti-progressive character of modern populism, the failure of the elite political establishment, Brexit and the future of the EU, the death of classical liberalism in Europe, the underappreciated impact on the financial crisis on the Western body politic, the imperative to defend free market capitalism and much more. Read 'Vox Populi': https://tinyurl.com/yb8dum9a. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: https://tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
23 minutes | Feb 20, 2018
Victor Davis Hanson Trump's Unlikely Populism - Full Interview
Professor Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Prof. Hanson's essay in the new book “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” Prof. Hanson and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the populism of President Donald Trump, what President Trump understood about the electorate that his opponents missed, the 2016 election's significance in history and what it augurs for the world, the ramifications of the FBI and DOJ actions regarding President Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where The Resistance leads and much more. Read 'Vox Populi': tinyurl.com/yb8dum9a. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
3 minutes | Feb 7, 2018
Why the Paris Climate Accord Represents a Fight for America's Soul
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
1 minutes | Feb 7, 2018
The Left's Economic Achilles Heel on Environmentalism Could Be Politically Devastating
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
28 minutes | Feb 6, 2018
Rupert Darwall Full Interview on Green Tyranny
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
3 minutes | Feb 6, 2018
How Sweden Became a Dominant Soft Power in Environmentalism
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
3 minutes | Feb 6, 2018
How the Acid Rain Fraud Served as a Dry Run for the Climate Change Movement
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
2 minutes | Feb 6, 2018
Is Climate Change Really Just 'Ethics for the Wealthy?’
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
1 minutes | Feb 6, 2018
Rupert Darwall Exposes the Nazi Roots of Environmentalism
Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning 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. Read 'Green Tyranny': tinyurl.com/ya75heoq. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb.
5 minutes | Jan 16, 2018
Vasily Maklakov's Involvement in the Assassination of Rasputin
Vasily Maklakov's Involvement in the Assassination of Rasputin by Encounter Books
1 minutes | Jan 16, 2018
Vasily Maklakov's Prudence
Vasily Maklakov's Prudence by Encounter Books
6 minutes | Jan 16, 2018
Lessons from Vasily Maklakov's Life for Liberal Reformers in Tyrannical Regimes
Lessons from Vasily Maklakov's Life for Liberal Reformers in Tyrannical Regimes by Encounter Books
4 minutes | Jan 16, 2018
Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin
Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin by Encounter Books
3 minutes | Jan 16, 2018
Vasily Maklakov and the Jews
Vasily Maklakov and the Jews by Encounter Books
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