Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-09-30
Books mentioned on Has America Completely Lost Its Mind? - Ben Shapiro - #845
Ben Shapiro is a political commentator, Co-Founder of the Daily Wire, an author and a podcaster. Election years are always chaotic, but this one feels particularly spicy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Federalist papers
The Federalist papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay is a collection of eighteenth-century essays written to urge the ratification of the United States Constitution and outline the structural philosophy of American governance.
Discussed“If you read Federalist 51, James Madison is talking about if angels were to govern, if human beings were angels, no government would be necessary. If human beings were devils, then no government would be capable.”
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12 Rules for Life
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B.
Discussed“I think that a lot of his best stuff is the kind of 12 rules for life here's the thing that you can do this morning that's going to make your life a lot better”
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick is Herman Melville's classic epic novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive, self-destructive hunt for the giant white whale.
Discussed“I mean, like we tried this; we had a book club and the book club was, you know, we’d read like great works of literature, so we read Moby Dick. Yeah, you were on a deck of a ship, right? Exactly, so we did one with Moby Dick and it’s like I love that stuff, right?”
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon is a seminal post-colonial text that analyzes the psychological and structural impacts of colonization while arguing that decolonization is inherently a violent phenomenon.
Discussed“Frantz Fanon the author of wretchard of the Earth this kind of post this idea that that there will be colonially oppressed and then they're the oppressors the oppressed oppressed matri that that's not going away”
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“the thing that I'm proudest of in terms of like one product that I've created is the right side of History which is basically a review of Western philosophy over the course of about 250 Pages it was the hardest thing I've had to write I think it was a really interesting and cogent book”
“But in terms of like establishing a long-term body, listen—the thing that I’m proudest of in terms of one product that I’ve created is 'The Right Side of History,' which is basically a review of Western philosophy over the course of about 250 pages. It was the hardest thing I’ve had to write; I think it was a really interesting”