Episode · The Rubin Report · 2024-04-28
Dave Rubin & Peter Boghossian: books mentioned on The Rubin Report (Apr 2024)
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;
Dave Rubin discussed Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Peter Boghossian discussed The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.
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 that explores the social contagion aspect of gender dysphoria, focusing on the sudden, massive surge in teenage girls identifying as transgender.
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”
Where to get it
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a prominent polemical work that argues against the existence of a creator deity and critiques the societal impacts of religion.
Discussed“Just to be clear, he's had that position since The God Delusion about a Christian nation.”
Where to get it
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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 prominent political science and philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural 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.”
Where to get it
