Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-05-01
Books mentioned on Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country
Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad.
Robert Evans discussed Cambodia by George C. Hildebrand, Murder of a Gentle Land by John Barron and others, Kampuchea by Malcolm Caldwell, and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cambodia
Discussed“Um now Chsky preferred a different book. Um he compared Ponchard's work uh Ponchad's work unfavorably with another book called Cambodia starvation and revolution written by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter”
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Murder of a Gentle Land
Discussed“there was another book written by two readers digest writers called Murder of a Gentle Land that Chsky also went after”
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Kampuchea
Discussed“in fact he had finished a book before he goes there called Kampuchia a rationale for rural policy”
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a sweeping philosophical novel that champions objectivism, laissez-faire capitalism, and individual achievement while depicting a dystopian society collapsing under the weight of excessive government controls.
Discussed“I mean, look, we're we're living through the same version of that, but just the the book is [ __ ] Atlas Shrugged.”
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