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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2018
June 2018 discussions across various podcast programs heavily featured themes centered on free speech, persuasion, personal reputation, and professional change. On The Rubin Report, the host introduced Nadine Strossen as the guest and discussed her new book, Free Speech, which focuses on resisting hate speech without relying on censorship. Strossen also mentioned her prior book, Defending Pornography, and referenced a book by Aryeh Neier about the Skokie case called Defending My Enemy. On Modern Wisdom, the host mentioned picking up Warren Cass's book Influence, which was made available with companion resources in the show notes. During the same episode, Cass recommended Daniel Priestley's Entrepreneur Revolution as a valuable read and suggested Spencer Johnson's short, illustrative book Who Moved My Cheese? for understanding how to adapt to changes. Additionally, Cass and the guest noted Cialdini's classic psychology of persuasion book written in the 1980s as a brilliant contribution to the subject. Across these June episodes, hosts and guests repeatedly turned to practical guides and legal examinations to help audiences navigate personal development, persuasion dynamics, and civil liberties.
The Rubin Report
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Free Speech
Discussed“a professor at New York law school and author of the new book hate why we should resist it with free speech not censorship”
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Defending Pornography
Discussed“and my prior book defending pornography”
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My Farmer Husband
Discussed“he wrote a wonderful book about it afterwards called defending my enemy which I quote in my book”
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Joint Inspection of the Handling of Cases Involving Disability Hate Crime
Discussed“and for more on Nadine check out her new book hate”
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Who Really Cares
Discussed“although I do remember this book is probably a little old by now called who really cares by Arthur Brooks”
Modern Wisdom
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Influence
Discussed“I picked up his book influence which will be linked in the show notes below along with all of the partner companion stuff that he gives away for free on his website”
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The Hands of Nara
Discussed“you've got their psychology of persuasion by child Eenie a brilliant book written in the 1980s and he has done some work since there”
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Entrepreneur Revolution
Discussed“so in terms of other books is that there's a load out there and I'm a fan of Daniel priestly and go and have a look at some of his work entrepreneur evolution It's a good one”
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Who Moved My Cheese?
Discussed“you know bearing in mind the biggest thing that we talked about today was some at the beginning we surround change go and go and read who moved my cheese you know a simple book that can be read to an hour but just tells this tells the story of mice and men and illustrates why it's actually important to”
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Now Is the Way
Discussed“so that's right now it's called now is the way and it's basically turned into an argument against the acceptance of a given amount of human suffering”
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Lost Connections
Discussed“I've got Johann Hari the author of lost connections I've got him coming on very soon”
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... In Praise of Folly
Discussed“and yeah it talks about I think was it Erasmus or so yeah who says that we have to embrace our folly and our ridiculousness and realize the appraiser folly is the UH in praise of folly”
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His Dark Materials
Discussed“and so you have both read or listened to his dark materials on you mm-hm there's this concept in that which keeps on coming up anyone who hasn't it's a series of books by Philip Pullman they butchered it when they tried to turn the first one into a film out here Northern Lights”
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Scar Tissue
Discussed“I thought I had just read the book scar tissue by Anthony Kiedis and in that book he goes through like I don't know half a dozen short stint rehab centers like 30 days and they're all in Malibu and he talks about like meeting meeting some fine chicks and stuff”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Discussed“she wrote that book meet me in the bathroom she's amazing music journalist”
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Myra Breckinridge
Discussed“Gor Gor Vidal I mean the writers name is gore Vidal So he wrote Myra Breckinridge”
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Shut Up and Give Me the Mic
Discussed“I and my book is called shut up is called shut up and give me the mic”
Pod Save America
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Lead from the Outside
Discussed“you know I wrote this book called Minority Leader and yes available but the point behind the book was that there are experiences that you have when you are a minority”
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The World as It Is
Discussed“today we have the author of the new memoir the world as it is crooked contributor best friend of the pod Ben Rhodes is here in studio on the flush”