Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-10-21
Joe Rogan, Richard Lindzen & William Happer: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2397
#2397 - Richard Lindzen & William Happer
Richard Lindzen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Happer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University.
Joe Rogan discussed An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. William Happer discussed 1984 by George Orwell. Also mentioned: Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Institoris.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore is a documentary film and companion book highlighting the looming crisis of global warming and urging urgent action to protect the environment.
Discussed“And when he made that movie, An Inconvenient Truth, what year was that again, Jamie? It was like 1988 or something? Something like 99? What is it? Oh, really? We're that off. Wow. Okay, so 2006.”
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Malleus maleficarum
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Institoris is a notorious fifteenth-century treatise written to support the persecution and torture of alleged witches during the Inquisition.
Discussed“Well, I've read that as well about the printing press. When the printing press was first devised, a lot of people like, oh we're going to get so much knowledge. No, a lot of the early books were like how to detect witches. Right. That's right. Malleus Maleficarum. You know, the the hammer of the evildoers. That was the first”
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“Yeah, that that's one of the parts of Orwell's 1984 that many people forget, but a big part of that was every day there was two minutes of hate. And so people seem to have this need for hatred, you know, you have to have a part of the day where you can hate something or somebody and so if”
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