Episode · The Rubin Report · 2024-04-28
Books mentioned on What I Saw in These Cities Shocked Me | Peter Boghossian
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Peter Boghossian about the cost of combating woke ideology, including facing protests and investigations for discussing free speech at his former university;
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a 2020 non-fiction book exploring the sudden rise of adolescent girls adopting transgender identity as a social contagion.
Discussed“So this is what Abigail Shrier's new book is about, because basically what you're saying and what she writes about is that in essence if you were to send a kid who was confused about their gender, which some kids could be part of growing up and puberty and everything else, so you send an 11-year-old girl who thinks she's”
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a bestselling popular science and polemical book that argues against the existence of a creator God and critiques the societal impacts of religion.
Discussed“I did; just to be clear, he's had that position since The God Delusion about a Christian nation.”
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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 renowned political science work that argues the global victory of democratic capitalism represents the endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“I don't think that history has an end point; I don't think we're at the end of history, as Fukuyama suggested.”
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