Study Guide

“At the end of Tolstoy's Confessions, I don't know if you've ever read that, but it details something very much like what you described happening to you.”

“You pointed out in your book that there is a predilection for women between the ages of 18 and 34, something that's been observed everywhere; they're way out of sync with every other demographic group, being way more progressive and far more radically left, and are far more likely to identify, for instance, with the notion that Hamas terrorists are”

“Alright, so one of the things that was striking about your book—and I don't know how to rectify this apparent paradox—you make the case that we've raised a cohort of kids who've been thoroughly propagandized in high school, let's say, because that looks like about the place where it's occurring.”

“Yeah, um, and here again, one of the people that he owned acted to protect his absent owner from the book Master of the Mountain. When the raiders swarmed into the house at Monticello, it quickly became apparent that once again Jefferson had eluded them, but they knew he could not be very far off.”

“This passage from Amy Knight's book gives good context on how brutal some of these arrests tended to be and just the sheer level of bullying that dominated them, right?”

“And I'm going to continue with a quote from Amy Knight's book here: "The most important economic activity of the NKVD was the construction of roads, railways, waterways, and power stations. Some projects were undertaken directly by the NKVD, and some by Gulag workers contracted out to other commissariats; mining of gold and non-ferrous metals and lumbering were other key”

“and he now writes books called The Road to Freedom and pretends to be the savior of the West or the killer, the undertaker of neoliberalism or something like that.”

“A few years ago, I read the book 'Old Souls' by Ian Stevenson about past-life memories and near-death experiences.”

“In my book, The Squad, I interviewed a lot of AOC's staff members who said very early in 2019 that this was a fundamental question facing her as she came into office: would she try to get along with her colleagues and move up the ranks of the Democratic Party, building power that way, and then use that power for”

“In fact, Eric Larson wrote a great book on Isaac Storm, and it was a hurricane that hit Galveston in the year 1900. For the folks in Galveston in 1900, that storm was an unexpected storm; they didn't expect it to hit.”

“And Ber was curious; they should go read Robert's book After The Revolution because that is what that is talking about—a book full of morally compromised people who regret their actions in war!”

“And C.S. Lewis says this in his Screwtape Letters, which is this book about it, um, is from the perspective of a demon, uh, trying to tempt people, Screwtape Letters, and his big thing is noise.”

“And of course, did you read Goodbye to All That when you left New York? I think people sent it to you! No, did you send me that book?”

“Yeah, so yeah, John Hodgman, uh, writer of Books and and podcaster of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, uh, very famously, um, created uh 800 hobo names, uh, in one of his books and I figured we could just go through a couple of these.”

“He wrote a brilliant book called The Dead Hand.”

“Yada yada, the book focuses initially on how the DEA got its jurisdiction expanded to terrorism and financing, which I know sounds super in the weeds, but I was quite interested.”

“Yes, I'll give you a high-profile example. I discuss this in my book in the Matt Gates investigation.”

“Like they have what is in like the big book of alcoholism, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yes, they have the disease of alcoholism.”

“By the way, just to say, Robin DiAngelo wrote the best-selling book 'White Fragility,' and Ibrahim Kendi wrote 'Stamped from the Beginning' and 'How to Be an Anti-Racist.' So these are the biggest speakers, if you go to Barnes and Noble, if it's open, they’re who you're going to see.”

“So it’s like I just read his books; I kind of want to know what’s going on when you read the book; there are some things that get you really pissed off with racist white people.”

“Because I think we were called Mr. Crow's Garden, and it's a book. It's a children's book from the 20s called Mr. Crow's Garden, with an E.”

“There's a lot of survey data included in my book, as I try to ground my discussion as much as possible in the data.”

“One of the arguments in my book is that, in a sense, neoliberal capitalism is self-devouring.”

“So the—the main—the main female character's entire life was, uh, her mom wrote books called The Amazing Amy, and it was inspired by her, but not actually her. I remember that.”

“And, you know, um, they didn't end up canceling my book, which, you know, I don't regard precisely as a favor.”

“If you think a bit more about it, or you just read in your book about the history of math, one of the first algorithms ever written down notes that all you have to do is check if it’s divisible by any of the previous prime numbers that are smaller than the square root. Before you get to a better”

“There's a chapter in this book called 'Re-parenting Yourself.'”

“It's called 'Chasing the Light', about Professor Leahy and what he did to me.”