Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-04-03
Books mentioned on #1276 - Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, syndicated columnist, and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show." His new book "The Right Side Of History" is available now everywhere.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is a deeply reflective memoir chronicling the future president's early life, his search for identity, and the complex legacy of his absent father.
Discussed“number three is you do what barack obama did which is you come out preemptively and you try to remember all the bad stuff you do and then you confess it in public So in dreams for my father he says right”
Where to get it
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Nudge
Nudge by Richard H.
Discussed“There's a scholar named cass sunstein as a legal scholar and he wrote a book called nudge He was very famous”
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Hillbilly Elegy
J.D.
Discussed“i mean this is what jd vance talks about in hillbilly elegy right”
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone by Robert D.
Discussed“well there's a robert putnam who's a sociologist over at harvard He wrote an entire book about the social fabric called bowling alone”
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The war on normal people
Discussed“so there's there's two problems that come up there and this is where andrew's book is interesting because problem number one is that the people will be poor”
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Free Will
Free Will by Sam Harris is a concise philosophical essay arguing that the traditional concept of human free will is an illusion underpinned by unconscious neurological processes.
Discussed“and then he'll write a full book about why freewill doesn't exist and i just don't understand how those two things can co-exist”
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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)
Creativity, Inc.
Discussed“so you can check out my book the right side of history It talks about a lot of the sort of deeper issues we're talking about judeo-christian values and reason”
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