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The Encounter Books Podcast episodes:

05.15.2018
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,...
05.03.2018
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...
04.18.2018
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,...
04.03.2018
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...
03.21.2018
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...
03.06.2018
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...
02.27.2018
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...
02.20.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
02.07.2018
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...
01.16.2018
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
01.16.2018
Vasily Maklakov's Involvement in the Assassination of Rasputin
Vasily Maklakov's Involvement in the Assassination of Rasputin by Encounter Books
01.16.2018
Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin
Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin by Encounter Books
01.16.2018
Vasily Maklakov's Prudence
Vasily Maklakov's Prudence by Encounter Books
01.16.2018
Vasily Maklakov and the Jews
Vasily Maklakov and the Jews by Encounter Books
01.16.2018
Judge Stephen F. Williams Full Interview on The Reformer
Judge Stephen F. Williams Full Interview on The Reformer by Encounter Books
12.01.2017
Doug Schoen Full Interview on Putin on the March
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
12.01.2017
Doug Schoen on What Pundits Get Wrong About Putin and the 2016 US Presidential Election
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
12.01.2017
What Makes Putin's Russia Different from Past Adversarial Russian Regimes?
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
12.01.2017
Doug Schoen on Whether America Should Try to Create a Wedge Between Russia and China
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
12.01.2017
What is Putin Seeking to Accomplish in Europe?
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
12.01.2017
Doug Schoen Does Not Believe We Have the Capabilities to Counter Russia and China in Cyber
Doug Schoen, one of the world's preeminent pollsters, pundits and political consultants, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Schoen's new book “Putin on...
11.30.2017
F.H. Buckley's Novel Solution for Curtailing Corruption in Our Republic
F.H. Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, and Senior Editor at The American Spectator, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media,...
11.30.2017
F.H. Buckley Demolishes Campaign Finance Reform
F.H. Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, and Senior Editor at The American Spectator, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media,...
11.30.2017
F.H. Buckley: You Can't Be Hayekian and a Constitutional Conservative
F.H. Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, and Senior Editor at The American Spectator, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media,...
11.30.2017
F.H. Buckley Full Interview on The Republic of Virtue
F.H. Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, and Senior Editor at The American Spectator, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media,...
11.30.2017
How the Separation of Powers Contributes to Corruption
F.H. Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, and Senior Editor at The American Spectator, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media,...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
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...
11.16.2017
John Yoo on Attacks on Free Speech on America’s College Campuses
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 https://youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE. Learn more about John...
11.16.2017
John Yoo Says We are Not Winning the War on Terror
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....
11.16.2017
John Yoo on How to Stop North Korea
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 https://youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE. Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How...
11.16.2017
John Yoo on Why America Should Nix the Iran Deal
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...
11.16.2017
John Yoo on Why Hi-Tech Warfare Will Save More Lives
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 https://youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE. Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking...
11.16.2017
John Yoo on the Revolution in Military Technology
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 https://youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE. Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules...
11.16.2017
John Yoo on Why America’s Reluctance to Use Force Risks World Peace
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...
11.16.2017
John Yoo Full Interview on Striking Power
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...
11.15.2017
John Yoo Explains Why the Geneva Convention’s Rules of War Help Terrorists
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 https://youtu.be/pOlaSkNUQhE. Learn more...
05.23.2017
Big Government and Big Business Colluded to Foist Common Core on America
Joy Pullmann, managing editor at The Federalist, and an education research fellow at the Heartland Institute, sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss her new book "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for...
05.23.2017
Is Common Core an Extension of the Administrative State?
Joy Pullmann, managing editor at The Federalist, and an education research fellow at the Heartland Institute, sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss her new book "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for...

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The Encounter Books Podcast episodes:

Joseph Tartakovsky on The Lives of the Constitution - Full Interview

Leon Kass on How to Lead a Worthy Life - Full Interview

Ryan T. Anderson on the Transgender Moment - Full Interview

Conrad Black on Trump's Place in the History of Populism

Sally C. Pipes on The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care - Full Interview

Glenn Harlan Reynolds on The Judiciary's Class War - Full Interview

Daniel Hannan on Populism, the EU, and the Hangover from the Financial Crisis - Full Interview

Victor Davis Hanson Trump's Unlikely Populism - Full Interview

The Left's Economic Achilles Heel on Environmentalism Could Be Politically Devastating

Is Climate Change Really Just 'Ethics for the Wealthy?’

Why the Paris Climate Accord Represents a Fight for America's Soul

How the Acid Rain Fraud Served as a Dry Run for the Climate Change Movement

How Sweden Became a Dominant Soft Power in Environmentalism

Rupert Darwall Exposes the Nazi Roots of Environmentalism

Rupert Darwall Full Interview on Green Tyranny

Lessons from Vasily Maklakov's Life for Liberal Reformers in Tyrannical Regimes

Vasily Maklakov's Involvement in the Assassination of Rasputin

Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin

Vasily Maklakov's Prudence

Vasily Maklakov and the Jews

Judge Stephen F. Williams Full Interview on The Reformer

Doug Schoen Full Interview on Putin on the March

Doug Schoen on What Pundits Get Wrong About Putin and the 2016 US Presidential Election

What Makes Putin's Russia Different from Past Adversarial Russian Regimes?

Doug Schoen on Whether America Should Try to Create a Wedge Between Russia and China

What is Putin Seeking to Accomplish in Europe?

Doug Schoen Does Not Believe We Have the Capabilities to Counter Russia and China in Cyber

F.H. Buckley's Novel Solution for Curtailing Corruption in Our Republic

F.H. Buckley Demolishes Campaign Finance Reform

F.H. Buckley: You Can't Be Hayekian and a Constitutional Conservative

F.H. Buckley Full Interview on The Republic of Virtue

How the Separation of Powers Contributes to Corruption

Is Climate Change Really Just 'Ethics for the Wealthy?'

The Left's Economic Achilles Heel on Environmentalism Could Be Politically Devastating

Why the Paris Climate Accord Represents a Fight for America's Soul

How the Acid Rain Fraud Served as a Dry Run for the Climate Change Movement

How Sweden Became a Dominant Soft Power in Environmentalism

Rupert Darwall Exposes the Nazi Roots of Environmentalism

Rupert Darwall Full Interview on Green Tyranny

John Yoo on Attacks on Free Speech on America’s College Campuses

John Yoo Says We are Not Winning the War on Terror

John Yoo on How to Stop North Korea

John Yoo on Why America Should Nix the Iran Deal

John Yoo on Why Hi-Tech Warfare Will Save More Lives

John Yoo on the Revolution in Military Technology

John Yoo on Why America’s Reluctance to Use Force Risks World Peace

John Yoo Full Interview on Striking Power

John Yoo Explains Why the Geneva Convention’s Rules of War Help Terrorists

Big Government and Big Business Colluded to Foist Common Core on America

Is Common Core an Extension of the Administrative State?