Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2025-09-03
Books mentioned on Michael Knowles: Trump & Israel, Candace Owens, and Why Christianity Is Booming Despite the Attacks
Michael Knowles recommended Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and The age of entitlement by Christopher Caldwell, and discussed The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis and Idea of a University by John Henry Newman.
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The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters by C.S.
Discussed“It's like Louis and the Screw Tape Letters.”
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is a foundational sociological and political study analyzing the structure, culture, and institutions of American society from the perspective of an outside observer.
Recommended“he said, "Look, excellent, excellent, highly recommended reading."”
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Idea of a University
Discussed“He wrote a great book. You look at the crises of the universities today, there's a remedy to it, which is a book that he wrote called the idea of a university.”
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The age of entitlement
The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell is a provocative historical and political analysis examining how civil rights legislation and shifting legal frameworks reshaped American society from the 1960s onward.
Recommended“Christopher Caldwell, an excellent guest on your show and a great writer. Wonderful guy. His his his book Age of Entitlement basically uh proves this this uh thesis that there there's a parallel constitution which is in tension with the old constitution.”
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