📚 5 Books mentioned in "Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics | The Ezra Klein Show" of The Ezra Klein Show

I think people who are interested in this subject, interested in the conversation, one one recommendation would be a book called after by Bruce Grayson who's a I think psychiatrist or neur neuroscientist from the University of Virginia who just has a good overview I would say from a perspective of a practicing physician of why people take these strange stories seriously and why it might unsettle a materialist worldview and the third book.

Ross recommends this book by Bruce Greyson about near-death experiences.

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I've been reading about the Renaissance recently. Um Ada Palmer's great book on inventing the Renaissance.

Ezra mentions Ada Palmer's book about the Renaissance.

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Um but a book by called Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel who's a famous philosopher not religious but arguing for the fundamental limits and problems with a materialist framework on the world and it is a very short book which is why I don't hesitate to recommend it.

Ross recommends this book by Thomas Nagel about the limits of materialism.

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Uh the first one is a book called from about 20 years ago by a physicist named Steven Bar called ancient physics and modern faith. Uh that is I think despite being a little bit dated is still really the best overall survey of sort of where arguments in modern physics that relate to religion stand and how a reasonable person might think about it.

Ross recommends this book by Stephen Barr as a good survey of physics and religion.

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So I you know I wrote a lot about the concept of decadence, right? this idea that you know the west the developed world was sort of stuck in these kind of cycles and needed to break out somehow but the reality is you often can't break out of decadence without you know a big big mess so maybe Trump is the agent of that mess

Ross Douthat mentions writing about the concept of decadence, referencing his previous work.

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