Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2020-02-14
Books mentioned on #1427 - Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen is the NY editor for Spectator USA and the managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders. Learn more about your ad choices.
Melissa Chen discussed The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman and Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Discussed“where was the whole Thomas Friedman position when he wrote about it in Lexus and the olive tree that if we globalized the world that economic that you're at you lift a lot of people out of poverty or your economic pie grows but your politics shrink”
Where to get it
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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a data-driven defense of reason, science, humanism, and progress that argues humanity is living in an era of unprecedented health, prosperity, and safety.
Discussed“I'm a huge fan of the enlight the alignment in general in fact be you know Steven Pinker wrote that book enlightenment now that was the first book we chose to translating to Arabic”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Crazy Rich Asians
“the average American knows Singapore because that kid that got caned now it's that stupid movie which movie crazy o crazy rich Asians right”