Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Episode: Swearing Is More Important Than You Think | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 540
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"I write a column for the New York Times, and my most recent two books were, "Nine Nasty Words" about profanity and "Woke Racism" about race and cultural issues."
Why We Curse
Buy on Amazon"If I ask you to give the answer to the title of this one book of yours, "Why We Curse," why do we? How answerable is that question?"
Holy Sh*t
Buy on Amazon"Moore is the author of a book called Holy [ __ ]. A Brief History of Swearing."
The Stuff of Thought
Buy on Amazon"Question: you've got this kind of euphemism treadmill that Stephen Pinker talks about where it starts off as a bad word, but then people use it more and more, and then you get used to it, and then it falls away, and then you need to come up with another bad word."