Encounter Books has now been publishing intelligent center-right books for ten years

National Review, June 30, 2008

Encounter Books has now been publishing intelligent center-right books for ten years. The Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal held a symposium to celebrate the anniversary. Victor Davis Hanson contributed a paper on the consequences of the politically correct erasure of our cultural memory, John Fonte outlined the threat that transnational progressives pose to the democratic nation-state, and Andrew McCarthy asked why we persist in misunderstanding the jihadists even as they take pains to explain themselves clearly.

The names are familiar from these pages, as are the lucidity and realism associated with them. That all three men have written books for Encounter is a tribute to the enterprise. Their common theme at the symposium, the defense of things worth defending against external attack and internal decay, is a fine working definition of conservatism.