Book · 2022
Nation of Victims
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His new book brilliantly analyzes how our society has fallen into a state of victimhood perpetual victimhood.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Sep 2022 Listen at 6:20 What they say about it
- Discussing the new book“author of the new book”2
The best things said about it
Our next guest is Vivek Ramaswamy, tech entrepreneur and author of the new book Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, which is out tomorrow.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Sep 2022 The 2020 election, and actually the 2020 election in the way you formulated in the Nation of Victims. It's just the entirety of that process instead of focusing on winning, doing a lot of whining.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2024 The generational cultural problem. The victimhood cancer, that's the heart of Nation of Victims, the next book that explains this cultural deficit.
Vivek Ramaswamy The Rubin Report · Sep 2022 Actually in Nation of Victims, the end of the subtitle of the book is The Path Back to Excellence.
Vivek Ramaswamy The Rubin Report · Sep 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Nation of Victims by Vivek Ramaswamy is a cultural and political critique that examines how modern identity politics and a collective culture of grievance undermine individual merit, personal excellence, and accountability in America. The book received prominent promotion when Megyn Kelly recommended the newly released title and welcomed Ramaswamy as a guest on her show to discuss its core arguments. Ezra Klein dedicated a portion of Pod Save America to discussing his detailed conversation with Ramaswamy, noting that the release of the book was a primary motivation for inviting him on the program. Lex Fridman brought up the work during an interview to analyze the framing of political discourse surrounding the 2020 election and the broader societal entrenchment of victimhood mentalities. Dave Rubin hosted the author on The Rubin Report to launch the book, where Ramaswamy elaborated on the underlying cultural deficits and unfinished research from his previous projects that ultimately inspired the text. Throughout these various podcast appearances, the book is consistently analyzed as a provocative examination of contemporary cultural grievances, the decline of traditional meritocracy, and potential pathways toward restoring individual excellence in modern civic life.
Every mention
Megyn Kelly our next guest is vivek ramaswamy tech entrepreneur and author of the new book nation of victims identity p… 2
Discussed
“a little bit later this show we're going to be joined by vivek ramaswamy his new book brilliantly analyzes how our society has fallen into a state of victimhood perpetual victimhood”
Recommended
“our next guest is vivek ramaswamy tech entrepreneur and author of the new book nation of victims identity politics the death of merit and the path back to excellence which is out tomorrow please support vivek and buy this book”
Vivek Ramaswamy And then actually the unfinished work was what led to Nation of Victims, which is the book that I'm putting… 3
Discussed
“And then actually the unfinished work was what led to Nation of Victims, which is the book that I'm putting out now.”
Discussed
“The generational cultural problem. The victimhood cancer, that's the heart of Nation of Victims, the next book that explains this cultural deficit”
Discussed
“Actually in Nation of Victims, the end of the subtitle of the book is The Path Back to Excellence.”
Dave Rubin - I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the co-founder of Strive Asset Management as well as the author of… 1
Discussed
“- I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the co-founder of Strive Asset Management as well as the author of the brand new book, Nation of Victims, Identity Politics, The Death of Merit, and the Path”
Ezra Klein You know, I had Vivek Ramaswamy on my show a couple weeks before the election, and we had a long, and I tho… 1
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“You know, I had Vivek Ramaswamy on my show a couple weeks before the election, and we had a long, and I thought, really interesting conversation. But one of the foundations of the conversation for me, one of the reasons I wanted to have him on was he had just released this book, which was in many ways an odd”
Francis Suarez I read his books, and so I didn’t would not have guessed personally, you know, that Vivek would have—and ag… 1
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“I read his books, and so I didn’t would not have guessed personally, you know, that Vivek would have—and again, no shade on him; he's a super successful guy.”
Lex Fridman The 2020 election, and actually the 2020 election in the way you formulated in the "Nation of Victims." It'… 1
Discussed
“The 2020 election, and actually the 2020 election in the way you formulated in the "Nation of Victims." It's just the entirety of that process instead of focusing on winning, doing a lot of whining.”
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Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book
“we are not victims we're not a nation of victims I wrote a book a couple years ago called nation of victims we should not at our best be a nation of victims”
Own book
“I had written three books I had traveled the country I had been to Most states in this Union as a consequence of my business activities across to the books I had written”
Own book
“author of woke Inc capital punishment and nation of victims”
Own book
“Yeah, it turns out I've written three books in the last two years and two of them are about this topic.”
Own book
“my first book is about a lot of this my second book is about a lot of this woke Inc nation of victims here's what's wrong with that vision of identity grounded on your genetic attributes”
Own book
“my first book is about a lot of this my second book is about a lot of this woke Inc nation of victims”
Own book
“along with his second book nation of victims identity Politics the death of Merit and the path back to Excellence born and raised in Cincinnati Ohio”
Own book
“and this September just came out the sequel to woke Inc which is nation of victims”
Passing
“Vivek ramaswamy is founder and executive chairman of strive Asset Management he's also an entrepreneur and a New York Times best-selling author”
Ad read
“Our next guest is vivek ramaswamy tech entrepreneur and author of the new book nation of victims identity politics the death of merit and the path back to excellence which is out tomorrow Please support vivek and buy this book”
Passing
“next week we've got some big shows coming up including vivek ramaswamy he's out with his new book about victims supposed wannabe glomming victims”
Own book
“In the third part of my book i talked about all these scenarios and let me just walk through them”