Book · 2020 · Freedom of speech
Don't Burn This Book
#193 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 23
- people
- 14
- podcasts
- 5
- episodes
- 16
- recommendations
- 5
This has been a terrifically enjoyable book. It gets off to a racing start.
Douglas Murray · The Rubin Report · May 2020 Listen at 21:32 What they say about it
- Recommends reading the book“go out and get the book”3


- Discusses specific chapters“We're doing chapter five”3


The best things said about it
Don't Burn This Book, it's terrific and I'm glad to see that more people are buying it than are burning it.
Andrew Klavan The Rubin Report · May 2020 I'm like, I was learning that from reading your book, the first of book, "Don't Burn This Book", right? Like what it means to be a classic liberal.
Yeonmi Park The Rubin Report · Mar 2023 It's time to look into his terrible book, Don't Burn This Book. It's like reverse psychology. Like cuz now all I want to do is burn his book.
Guys, go out and get the book if you don't have it yet, and don't be like me and be tempted to burn it just because he told you not to.
Candace Owens The Rubin Report · May 2020 He has a new book out it's available for pre-order, Don't Burn This Book, is the title. Thinking for yourself in an age of unreason.
Where and when it comes up
Mentions per year
How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
14 people who brought it up
Andrew Klavan3 mentions · 1 rec
Candace Owens2 mentions · 1 rec
Douglas Murray2 mentions · 1 rec
Yeonmi Park2 mentions · 1 rec- Justin Brierley1 mention · 1 rec
Dave Rubin4 mentions- Robert Evans2 mentions
Brian Keating1 mention- David Webb1 mention
Dennis Prager1 mention- Kevin McCarthy1 mention
Megyn Kelly1 mention
Why people recommend it
Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin is a political work that encourages readers to think for themselves and champions classical liberal values in an era of unreason. On The Rubin Report, Yeonmi Park told Dave Rubin that she was inspired by his writing and learned what it means to be a classical liberal from it, while Candace Owens and Andrew Klavan both recommended the book to their audiences at the conclusion of their respective episode appearances, with Klavan noting that he was glad more people were buying it than burning it. Douglas Murray also praised the book as terrifically enjoyable and fast-paced, and Justin Brierley urged listeners to pre-order it. Conversely, Owens later critiqued the book on her show Candace, pointing out an error regarding foreign policy where Rubin stated that Ukraine was a member of NATO. Milo Yiannopoulos dismissed the book on The Tucker Carlson Show, stating he would have to buy and acknowledge it first, whereas Park had earlier discussed learning foundational concepts of classical liberalism directly from its pages.
Every mention
Andrew Klavan "Don't Burn This Book," it's terrific and I'm glad to see that more people are buying it than are burning it. 3
“We're here with the Don't Burn This Book book club, we're doing chapter five, Check Your Facts, Not Your Privilege.”
“You know, you start this chapter, this is chapter five, Check Your Facts, Not Your Privilege, you start it with you having a debate with Larry Elder”
“"Don't Burn This Book," it's terrific and I'm glad to see that more people are buying it than are burning it.”
Candace Owens Guys, go out and get the book if you don't have it yet, and don't be like me and be tempted to burn it just… 2
“And even if you go back to Dave Rubin's book, which I read, Don't Burn This Book, I knew he had no idea about foreign policy because there's a chapter where he actually published, I think this was back in 2020 when he published his book, that Ukraine was a member of NATO.”
“Guys, go out and get the book if you don't have it yet, and don't be like me and be tempted to burn it just because he told you not to.”
Douglas Murray This has been a terrifically enjoyable book. It gets off to a racing start. 2
“Hello, I'm Douglas Murray, and welcome to the "Don't Burn This Book" book club.”
“This has been a terrifically enjoyable book. It gets off to a racing start.”
Yeonmi Park And of course I've been so inspired in your book don't burn this world. 2
“I'm like, I was learning that from reading your book, the first of book, "Don't Burn This Book", right? Like what it means to be a classic liberal.”
“And of course I've been so inspired in your book don't burn this world.”
Justin Brierley He has a new book out it's available for pre-order, "Don't Burn This Book," is the title. Thinking for your… 1
“He has a new book out it's available for pre-order, "Don't Burn This Book," is the title. Thinking for yourself in an age of unreason. So I do recommend you go and get that if you can on pre-order as well.”
Dave Rubin You know, my first book, Don't Burn This Book, came out in April of 2020. 4
“You know, my first book, Don't Burn This Book, came out in April of 2020.”
“And you happen to mention that you read "don't burn this book" and that it helped you in some way”
“"Oh, that girl is saying what she thinks, and so many people are afraid to do it", some guy wrote a book about that. - He did, he did, and we're actually reading that book in my community right now.”
“Well, with that in mind, even though I wrote Jordan Peterson as the mentor, I do include you in that group of people who have helped me”
Robert Evans It's time to look into his terrible book, um, don't burn this book. Uh, it's like reverse psychology. Like… 2
“It's called Don't Burn This Book, um which is I think a a pretty sad attempt to make people like to to act as if there's anything actually um right uh disruptive in there as opposed to just being another cash grab by a guy whose basic modus operandi is to support the Republican party.”
“It's time to look into his terrible book, um, don't burn this book. Uh, it's like reverse psychology. Like cuz now all I want to do is burn his book.”
Brian Keating You know, "Don't Burn This Book." He said, "Books," Dave, "are magic." 1
“You know, "Don't Burn This Book." He said, "Books," Dave, "are magic."”
David Webb Chapter seven, stop hating straight white men, America and Western values. 1
“Chapter seven, stop hating straight white men, America and Western values.”
Dennis Prager So we're gonna talk about Don't Burn This Book chapter nine. I am very delighted that David asked me to com… 1
“So we're gonna talk about Don't Burn This Book chapter nine. I am very delighted that David asked me to comment on chapter nine.”
Kevin McCarthy Let's discuss your book. Don't burn this book. And when this interview is over, I'm gonna turn on my phone,… 1
“Let's discuss your book. Don't burn this book. And when this interview is over, I'm gonna turn on my phone, I bet you I get an advertisement for it.”
Megyn Kelly Follows up on Don't Burn This Book. 1
“Follows up on Don't Burn This Book.”
Michael Knowles So there's a lot I wanna talk about in your book, but first, because I'm hosting the show, this is my show… 1
“So there's a lot I wanna talk about in your book, but first, because I'm hosting the show, this is my show today thank you very much, I wanna talk about my favorite part of the book, which actually comes in the middle and it's, in the book, it's a sort of natural follow up to "Don't Burn This Book",”
Milo Yiannopoulos his book like don't burn this book. I'm like I'd have to buy it first. I'd have to know I' have to have hea… 1
“his book like don't burn this book. I'm like I'd have to buy it first. I'd have to know I' have to have heard of it. Like I'd have to acknowledge it really is a book.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (31: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Where's Don't Burn This Book? Can someone throw me a copy of Don't Burn This Book? It's a fine book, and I would highly recommend that you check it out.”
“I wrote about this 10 years ago in Don't Burn This Book. They are using the soft underbelly of liberalism.”
“when I wrote Don't Burn This Book, you know, and I laid out like all my positions on absolutely everything. My position on abortion was kind of safe, but rare.”
“when we did the original show, what was that four years ago or something with Dantis for the Don't Burn This Book tour and we were it was the height of Don't Say Gay and All That Ridiculous and the height of the postcoavid Dantis rise and we're in Orlando in Disney country and there's protesters outside”
“He had literally read the book and in the and in the in wait was in the first book. No, it was in the second book.”
“I mean, I always say to people, look, I wrote a book, uh, it was the best pro, it might be the bestselling book in American history about defending classical liberalism.”
“you were so happy for me that book don't burn this book um became a New York Times bestseller”
“dave's first book don't burn this book thinking for yourself in an age of unreason was a new york times bestseller”
“you know i wrote in my first book and i think it was an idea i sort of morphed off saying peter thiel once said to me that that straight people spread the genes and gay people spread the memes”
“And I'm proud to say that at the end of my first book, "Don't Burn This Book," I made an argument related to God and belief connecting some of the classic Liberal beliefs to that, because I saw what you're now talking about.”
“And as you may remember, chapter nine of my book was find a mentor.”
“My position before I wrote my book was 20 weeks. Because at that point, we know that the fetus can feel pain. Now there's actually a little evidence that it's closer to 18 weeks. But then in my book, I took the first trimester position which is about 12 weeks in effect. And I talk about, I concede that I”
“In fact, I have it right here behind me right under "Don't Burn This Book".”
“i will go on the record gut fell as saying that if anyone watching this enjoyed don't burn this book they will dig the plus”
“But you know, I titled my book. "Don't Burn This Book." And then basically the day the book came out”
“Hi, my name's Peter Boghossian from the Don't Burn This Book Club, with Dave Rubin, and this is chapter 10”
“It's time for the "Don't Burn this Book" club, and I am glad to be covering chapter eight, which is called "Learn How to Spot Fake News", which was my second favorite chapter of this book.”
“When you and I met, you know many, everyone that's read the book already knows the story. I was a lefty, you were on the right.”
“Can you talk a little bit about, I mentioned three wake up points in the book and one of them is about you and I was at 'The Young Turks' and we're watching a clip and there's David Webb”
“So let's go back to the subtitle of your book. And I, by the way, I borrowed the subtitle to write in one of the articles, 'Thinking For Yourself In An Age Of Unreason,'”
“- Ladies and gentlemen, it is me, Candace Owens, the Founder of The Blexit Movement and I am the thrilled that my friend, Dave Rubin's book is finally out, "Don't Burn This Book,"”
“You are pro-life, I make a pro-choice argument in this book.”
“If we can wake up enough people to exactly what individual rights are, to why the Constitution is so great, to why America, unlike any other country in the history of the world, that not only brought all of these people here to blend in but also to keep their traditions and ethnicity and all of those things. But we”
“- Dave Rubin, author of "Don't Burn This Book," best seller, all over the place, fantastic reviews, amazing,”
“- Well in many ways that's the message of the book more than anything else.”
“Hi everybody, Michael Shermer here talking to Dave Rubin about his new book, "Don't Burn This Book."”
“Well those were all the right answers so I'm not gonna burn your book after all.”
“I'm Bridget Phetasy and I'm here with Dave Rubin with the "Don't Burn This Book" book club doing chapter two. Hi, Dave.”
“I'm joined by Dave Rubin host of the Rubin report and author of don't burn this book”
“so on to don't burn this book why why did you write it”
“so you can get the book at dumper in this book com where we have a little brown books is our UK distributor so it's uh you can go to Amazon UK or wherever else you get books”





