Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-11-13
Books mentioned on Why Can Nobody Think For Themselves Anymore? - Douglas Murray (4K)
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray is an insightful book that examines contemporary cultural trends, identity politics, and social movements.
Discussed“but you know your book uh The Madness of crowds talks about the collapse of grand narratives”
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The Girl from the Fiction Department
Discussed“You mentioned George Orwell; The Telegraph recently spoke about his bi—his wife's biography or autobiography.Oh, there's a new biography of Sonia Orwell?”
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Fairer Tales
Discussed“HSBC rewrote wrote three classic fairy tales uh their book's called fairer tales and it shows that women don't need men at all”
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The Bench
Critiqued“I mean, I read Meghan Markle's book, 'The Bench', and that's worse.”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Strange Death of Europe
“um yeah I mean some things I've written about for years particularly in my book The Strange death of Europe that came out in 2017 which I think are sadly uh coming to fluish”
Own book The Strange Death of Europe
“Yeah, I mean, some things I've written about for years, particularly in my book, 'The Strange Death of Europe,' that came out in 2017, which I think are sadly coming to fruition.”
“We have the religion of gender. We have the religion of race.And you know, all these things have just stepped into this void, and they're all dogmatic things where they have their founding texts.”