Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-03-29
Books mentioned on #2297 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
Francis Foster is a writer and stand-up comic. Konstantin Kisin is a political commentator and author of "An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
Joe Rogan recommended Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell, and discussed The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and others and The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. Konstantin Kisin recommended A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell, and discussed Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a masterwork of high fantasy that launches the epic saga of Middle-earth and the quest to destroy the One Ring.
Discussed“it's just and I think that's why Lord of the Rings is such a powerful thing that everyone can relate to”
Where to get it
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Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is a classic Soviet science fiction novel depicting a mysterious post-visit alien zone filled with hazardous anomalies and valuable artifacts sought by daring stalkers.
Discussed“it's based on a on a book by the strugatsky brothers it was called roadside picnic”
Where to get it
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Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell is a non-fiction book examining the history, successes, and political opposition surrounding the charter school movement in American education.
Recommended“Thomas Soul has a great book about this called conflict of Visions it's really fundamentally about what you see as the truth about human nature”
Where to get it
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A Conflict of Visions
A Conflict of Visions is a work of political philosophy by Thomas Sowell that examines the underlying assumptions about human nature that shape competing political and social ideologies.
Recommended“Thomas Soul has a great book about this called conflict of visions”
Where to get it
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The Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a classic treatise on strategy, tactics, and philosophy written by a legendary seventeenth-century Japanese swordsman.
Discussed“the book of five rings the samurai that killed 60 men in unarmed combat and wrote a book on strategy”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Konstantin Kisin is a political commentator and author of An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.”
“I've got a book out in August uh it's called classroom confidential uh it's in August it's coming out”
“uh I've got a book out in August uh it's called classroom confidential”