Episode · Honestly with Bari Weiss · 2024-11-14
Books mentioned on Peter Thiel on Trump, Elon, and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites
On Tuesday night, president-elect Donald Trump announced that the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new initiative in the Trump administration: the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.
Discussed“around the time when he wrote the hillbilly elegy book and and he was sort of you know in some ways became um the way to explain Trump to you know liberals”
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The Great Illusion
Discussed“one of the books that I think is always a super interesting one to read was 1910 Norman Angel um wrote this book the great illusion”
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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri is an influential analysis examining how the rise of digital media and the internet has upended traditional institutional authority, empowered the public, and transformed global politics.
Recommended“I think Martin gur's book The Revolt of the public was extraordinary like Trump's not mentioned in the book it came out before the whole Trump phenomenon”
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The end of history
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a political science book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“the the one that as always the one that somehow I think got it completely wrong but I still don't know what it means is the fukuyama book the end of history”
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The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a prominent political science book published in 1992 that argues the worldwide adoption of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism might mark the endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“the the one that as always the one that somehow I think got it completely wrong but I still don't know what it means is the fukuyama book the end of history”
