Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-01-23
Books mentioned on #410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a liberal political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Authoritarian Moment
The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro examines what the author views as the creeping rise of enforced cultural conformity and left-wing authoritarianism within contemporary American institutions.
Discussed“The Quest for Cosmic justice as Thomas Soul suggests is something that government is generally incapable of doing and more often than not botches and makes things worse”
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell is a critical examination of modern social justice ideologies, arguing that utopian attempts to impose cosmic outcomes often yield counterproductive consequences.
Discussed“The quest for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell suggests, is something that government is generally incapable of doing and more often than not botches and makes things worse.”
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Critical Race Theory
Discussed“that is the generalized theory of critical race Theory as proposed by for example jeene stanic and Richard Delgado in their book on critical race theory that has taken a softer form that we referred to as Dei”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Authoritarian Moment
“Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books.”