Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2025-02-20
Books mentioned on The Show That Never Happened
A brief meditation on loss, relativity, and the vagaries of show business. RESOURCES:Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, documentary (2021) Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, by Norman Lebrecht (2019) The War Room, documentary (1993) EXTRAS:“Is San Francisco a Failed State?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Genius & Anxiety
Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht is a historical non-fiction book that explores the profound cultural, scientific, and artistic contributions made by Jewish thinkers, creators, and scientists over a turbulent century.
Discussed“I thought back to this passage from a book called genius and anxiety how Jews changed the world 1847 and 1947 by Norman lebre”
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