Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2020-10-28
Books mentioned on Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead. Watch on YouTube.
Dwarkesh Patel discussed Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray and By the People by Charles Murray. Charles Murray discussed The Discoverers by Daniel Joseph Boorstin and The Decadent Society by Ross Gregory Douthat.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Human Accomplishment
Discussed“so let's begin with human accomplishment the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences”
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The Discoverers
Discussed“i read a book by daniel porsten called the discoverers i think it was and borsten”
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By the People
Discussed“that there's an interesting pattern here that you talk about more in the by the people which is um the institutional sclerosis”
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The Decadent Society
The Decadent Society by Ross Gregory Douthat is a thought-provoking examination of Western civilization's technological plateau, economic stagnation, and cultural exhaustion.
Discussed“ross stout that the new york times columnist wrote a book called i guess the title is the decadent society”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“part of what i go into in the curmudgeons guide which we may be talking about later is you're 20 years old what do you want a balanced life”
Plugged By the People
“this is a book that hardly anybody who's listening to us will have read it's called by the people”
Plugged Coming apart
“the answer i would have given you in 2012 when i was writing coming apart was that we have reached a modus vivandi”