Episode · The Rubin Report · 2018-08-24
Books mentioned on Right Wing Collectivism and Saving Liberalism (Jeffrey Tucker Interview)
Jeffrey Tucker (American institute for Economic Research) joins Dave to discuss his libertarian roots, his issues with the left and with the right, right wing collectivism, the alt-right, and more. Learn more about your ad choices.
Jeffrey Tucker recommended MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver by Whitman Cross, and discussed The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk, The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler and others, The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The descent of man by Charles Darwin, and The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt. Dave Rubin recommended How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, and discussed The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker and The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Conservative Mind
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is an influential intellectual history that traces the development of conservative thought in Anglo-American politics from Edmund Burke onward.
Discussed“Russell Kirk's book called the mindset of a conservative something like the conservative mind I think is what it was called”
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive exploration of evolutionary psychology that investigates how the human brain evolved, how it processes information, and how these mechanisms shape modern human behavior.
Recommended“there's someone there's so many reasons right now to understand how great everything is that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are and that's a gratefully where there is less violence now in all sorts of the revolt you always have to be on the but the gatekeepers”
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive historical study arguing that violence has steadily declined throughout human history.
Discussed“that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are”
Where to get it
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The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, and Charles Francis Atkinson is a monumental historical and philosophical work that argues civilizations go through a predictable cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and ultimate decay.
Discussed“because now you're reading all the way into your the the the 1910s with the works of Oswald Spengler you know the the right hey galleon German theorist and enraptured every American here they're all reading his book oh my god the decline of the West we better reconstitute ourselves as a tribe or we're gonna be eaten alive by”
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The Passing of the Great Race
The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant is a notorious 1916 historical and pseudoscientific work that promoted eugenics and racial hierarchies.
Discussed“you know there's nothing new you're like and and you know the this this very funny book called the passing of the great race by Madison grant that was on every coffee table and the late nineteenth and early 1920s you know was was forecasting doom for the white race you know when he was he was a fascinating figure”
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is the celebrated travel memoir and scientific journal chronicling Darwin's five-year survey expedition that fundamentally shaped his theories on evolution and natural selection.
Discussed“he was a thoroughgoing Darwinian because she recall that Darwin had two great books Origin of Species the other was called The Descent of Man and The Descent of Man had the very unfortunate paragraph in there where he gret regrets the invention of mass disease killing Juris”
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a foundational 1859 scientific text that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, forever altering humanity's understanding of biology and the natural world.
Discussed“he was a thoroughgoing Darwinian because she recall that Darwin had two great books Origin of Species the other was called The Descent of Man”
Where to get it
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The descent of man
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin is an 1871 scientific work that expands on evolutionary theory by focusing heavily on sexual selection, human ancestry, and the development of social and moral faculties.
Discussed“the other was called The Descent of Man and The Descent of Man had the very unfortunate paragraph in there where he gret regrets the invention of mass disease killing Juris”
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MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver
MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver is an archival compilation of specialized scientific literature.
Recommended“and then to me Dave it all it all culminates in the works of cross MIT from the from the late 1930s and is in his amazing book called the concept of the political and if you'll give me just one quick second to explain this because because you as a liberal I need to read this book”
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The Concept of the Political
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt is a 1932 theoretical work examining state sovereignty and the foundational friend-enemy dichotomy within political philosophy.
Discussed“and then to me Dave it all it all culminates in the works of cross MIT from the from the late 1930s and is in his amazing book called the concept of the political”
Where to get it
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“but your new book and I want to get the title absolutely correct right wing collectivism the other threat to Liberty I thought that would be the spot for us to kick this off because most of the people watching the show know that I've mostly focused on the left”