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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2021
June 2021 podcast episodes featured wide-ranging literary recommendations spanning education systems, ancient scriptures, autobiography, science, and debut fiction. On Timcast IRL, Candace Owens referenced Thomas Sowell's book Education to support her assertions regarding the academic standing of university education degree programs. EconTalk host Russ Roberts recommended Yoram Hazony's remarkable work The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, celebrating the insights of a past guest. On Huberman Lab, Andrew Huberman shared his appreciation for literature and science by recommending Oliver Sacks's autobiography Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview after reading it multiple times. Huberman also praised Arielle Eckstut and Joann Eckstut's What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color, alongside Secret Language of Color, for readers interested in the mechanics of color vision. The Book Review highlighted multiple fiction releases, featuring Elizabeth Harris discussing Francine Prose's novel The Vixen—a humorous tale involving Ethel Rosenberg and the CIA—while John Williams reflected on reading Andrew Martin's debut novel Early Work. Lastly, on Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson briefly mentioned Ben Shapiro's newly released book The Authoritarian Moment during a question-and-answer session with his audience.
Timcast IRL
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Education
Recommended“thomas soul has a book um called inside the education system the lies the dog the dogma and the indoctrination and he talks about how in terms of like their placements in their universities the dumbest are people that get education degrees which is really fascinating”
EconTalk
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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
Recommended“well i want to recommend uh past econ econ talk guest joram hazoni has a remarkable book called the philosophy of hebrew scripture”
Huberman Lab
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Projections
Discussed“We also discuss Dr. Deisseroth's newly released book, which is entitled "Projections: A Story of Human Emotions". This is an absolutely remarkable book, that uses stories about his interactions with his patients, to teach you how the brain works in the healthy and diseased state,”
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Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview
Recommended“I just finished for the third time, Oliver Sacks' autobiography which is marvelous and I highly recommend to people.”
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What Is Color?
Recommended“All the answers to that are in this terrific book which is "What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color". I did not write this book, I wish I had, the book is by Arielle and Joann Eckstut, that E-C-K-S-T-U-T. So, it's "What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color". It's an”
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Secret Language of Color
Recommended“All the answers to that are in this terrific book which is "What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color". I did not write this book, I wish I had, the book is by Arielle and Joann Eckstut, that E-C-K-S-T-U-T. So, it's "What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color". It's an”
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The Macula
Discussed“The title of this paper is, it might catch your attention, it's Increased macular pigment optical density, that just means that macula, is an area of the eye for central vision, for high acuity vision. Pigment density there is good, you want pigment there. Increase macular pigment optical density and visual acuity, Visual acuity is your ability to see things”
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Human adaptations to endurance training
Discussed“And the review is called adaptations to endurance and strength training. This is a review article with many excellent citations.”
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Strength Training Anatomy
Discussed“And the review is called adaptations to endurance and strength training. This is a review article with many excellent citations.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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How I Built this
Discussed“now i'm talking about none other than guy razz the author of the new book how i built this and the host of the npr podcast of the same name”
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Calm
Discussed“like on one end you're speaking about calm and quiet those are titles of your books”
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Quiet
Discussed“like on one end you're speaking about calm and quiet those are titles of your books”
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Speak Your Truth
Recommended“her most recent book speak your truth was published in january 2021 and i can't wait for you to hear about it make sure that you click the link and order it as soon as you finish listening”
Modern Wisdom
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The Rules
Critiqued“there was a book in the 90s called the rules which was all about it was teaching women you know stuff like don't pick up the phone the first time he calls”
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The Authoritarian Moment
Recommended“he's got the authoritarian moment out now his new book uh i would love to bring him on at some point”
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Adrift
Recommended“and now his memoirs are this amazing book called adrift which is a story of how he survived both logistically and emotionally”
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The Unbroken Thread
Recommended“I'm thinking of guys like Sohrab Ahmari at the New York Post, who just wrote the Unbroken Thread, very good book on this topic.”
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Patterns of Anarchy
Discussed“and the only thing that had been somewhat comparable what i was looking for was this book called patterns of anarchy from like the 60s and one of my supporters this woman named marla i was doing a live stream and she went in the super chat and she goes why don't you do an audio book of this”
The Rubin Report
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Reasons To Vote For Democrats
Discussed“uh your last book obviously reasons to vote for democrats you didn't put any words in no words”
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Discussed“in in john locke's letter concerning toleration letter concerning toleration he says you know we got to tolerate people”
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Areopagitica
Discussed“john milton who wrote probably the most famous defense of free speech in the english language it's called areopagitica”
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Is Everyone Really Equal?
Discussed“And as I've gone on and I've read more of their literature over the years, especially when I first read a book called, "Is Everyone Really Equal?" In probably the middle, early part of 2019, which is written by Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo.”
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The Racial Contract
Discussed“The books, they have a book, Charles Mills has a book, 1997 or something like this, called, "The Racial Contract." That says that all White people are secretly involved in a racial contract, and we all assent to it.”
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How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America
Discussed“And there's a book called, "How Jews Became White Folks," by Karen Brodkin from the '90s, '98 or something like this. And she lays out that Jewish people were not considered White when they came to America...”
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Faithful Presence
Discussed“Okay, so I want to talk about the book. The title is "Faithful Presence: The Promise and Peril of Faith in the Public Square."”
No Stupid Questions
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Utilitarianism
Discussed“also Angelo recalls that 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill believed that humans would always choose higher more intellectual Pleasures over lower face Pleasures this is an exaggeration in its 1861 work utilitarianism Mill does claim that higher Pleasures are more intrinsically valuable”
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Legacies of the Turf
Discussed“I'm reading a little bit from a book by Allison Colin, Still Fair Race, called 'How Capitalism Forms Our Lives.'”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Make Prayers to the Raven
Discussed“this book was called uh make prayers to ravens that's the name of the book make yeah make when was this book written in the 1970s it was basically an anthropologist that went and lived with the ko yukon people in alaska for an extended period of time and he nelson was his last name i can't remember his first”
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Wild Sports in the Far West
Discussed“i'm going through the pages and the book is called wild sports in the far west just to get that out there the first one third of the book he's just traveling through the united states which is fascinating”
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Amazon Unbound
Discussed“there's this was brad stone's book he just wrote about it and about bezos i think it's amazon unbound”
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Realms of the human unconscious
Discussed“It was his first book that he ever wrote it was realms of the human unconscious observations from lsd research”
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Acid Test
Discussed“he realized that um there's a book acid test lsd ecstasy and the power to heal about this particular veteran and it's about our work”
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Lost Victories
Discussed“i read a book lost victories by manheim tank commander he's a brilliant tank commander he's a nazi and i don't really want to walk past his statue right even though he's got some pretty good lessons in terms of combat you read his book oh yeah”
The Book Review
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Collected Poems
Critiqued“collected poem of William Butler Yates who would of course go on to win the Nobel in 1923 in 1896 Anonymous wrote that the volume was quote as discouraging as a breakfast of cold porridge”
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The Holly
Discussed“Julian Rubenstein will be here to talk about his book The Holly”
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Counting descent
Discussed“your previous book was a poetry collection counting descent and I wanted to know how different it was writing a book of non-fiction”
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The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Discussed“I mention it only to say that that book sent me off to um retrack down Elizabeth Hardwick's collected essays”
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The Vixen
Recommended“I just finished the Vixen by Francine Pros which we have a profile of her coming out next week um which is a book about Ethel Rosenberg the CIA and it's hilarious”
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Early work
Recommended“I recently went back and read a novel that was getting a lot of attention what feels to me like last year but it turns out that it was three years ago which I guess is indicative of how we've all been living which is a first novel called early work by a writer named Andrew Martin”
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Democratic vistas
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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Drift and mastery
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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The Lion and the Unicorn
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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Strange defeat;
Discussed“in the spring of 1940 he escaped the Germans and HIIT out and wrote this short book called strange defeat before then joining the resistance and being captured and executed... and strange defeat which isn't well enough known in this country is his account of what happened to France”
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Discussed“I I reviewed a memoir by a woman named Ursula M Burns who was the is the former CEO of Xerox and she was also the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company and she's she's written a book called where you are is not who you are”
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Vox
Discussed“it's a novel but Nicholson Baker's novel Vox which came out in 1992 and it's it's erotic”
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Hollywood's Censor
Discussed“well there's one that is I think it's going to appear online but it's not going to be in the uh paper that was a book called Hollywood's censor by uh Thomas Dy and it was a kind of biography or you know in terms of film industry of Joseph ibr who was the head of the production code in”
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Lulu in Hollywood
Discussed“in fact you only have one and it's by Louise Brooks Lulu in Hollywood”
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And now to-morrow
Discussed“but in New York anyway that week the number one novel was something called and now tomorrow by Rachel field and it's about a DE Aris”
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The last time I saw Paris
Discussed“and Elliot Paul's the last time I saw Paris was number one on the non-fiction list”
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Golden Girl
Discussed“so this week there was a controversy surrounding the work of the author Ellen hilderbrand she's a very popular author and known for her summer reads and her latest novel golden girl takes place in in Tucket where a lot of her work is set”
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Discussed“in this case it was Casey mcquiston red white and royal blue which is a gay romance novel”
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Malibu Rising
Recommended“actually I just finished so I'm kind of cheating a book called Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed which I predict will be one of the big books books of the summer and is the perfect book to pick up if you're trying to get into the mindset of the season”
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Light Perpetual
Discussed“his latest novel is called light Perpetual Francis thanks for being here thanks for having”
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How Iceland Changed the World
Discussed“Eagle be arson will join us to talk about his new book how Iceland changed the world Alexander alter will be here”
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Golden Hill
Discussed“I was still in the middle of writing my my last book Golden Hill which is a picaresque 18th century mock 18th century novel”
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The talented Miss Highsmith
Discussed“last week uh my friend the great biographer Joan shenar died and she wrote a beautiful biography of Patricia heith called The Talented Miss heith and one of the things that she did”
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Languages of Truth
Discussed“Dwight you read a collection of essays by Salman Rashi I did do I have to talk about it”
My First Million
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Traction
Discussed“And then you also started working on writing this book called Traction with this DuckDuckGo guy. Gabe is his name, right?”
Behind the Bastards
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Hollywood Park
Discussed“Now, I actually found a book, a memoir by a man who was raised as a child in a Cinon school. Most of the book is not about that, but that's how it starts. And obviously, it has a profound impact on him.”
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The Outline of History
Discussed“So, when he was 14, Charles comes across a copy of HG Wells's The Outline of History, um, that had been owned by his stepfather. Are you familiar at all with this book?”
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The Book of Jonah
Discussed“She opened it at random and found herself in the book of Jonah. In my distress, I called to the Lord and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead, I called for help and you listened to my cry.”
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The New Prophets of Capital
Discussed“I want to quote now from a book called the new profits of capital which goes into some detail about what I find so unsettling in Gates's ideology.”
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Reign of Error
Discussed“I want to quote now from a section of Diane Ravitch's book Reign of Error, which is a pretty good title for a book about, you know, problems in the education system.”
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The Microsoft File
Discussed“In 1998, Wendy Goldman Rome wrote a book titled The Microsoft File where she claimed Gates had frequent affairs with employees.”
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War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945
Discussed“I'm going to read this passage from the delightfully named Hans J. van der Ven's book uh called War and Nationalism in China, which describes the aftermath of of the the failed first armed uprising.”
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Shanghai on Strike
Discussed“It's the assembled leaders of Shanghai as as Elizabeth Perry describes in Shanghai on strike, "didn't know whether to laugh or cry."”
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Triangle
Discussed“And to explain what the original sweat shop was, I'm going to quote from the book Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by Dave Vondrrell. Quote, "Today, the word sweat shop describes any crowded factory of poorly paid workers."”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Free Speech And Why It Matters
Discussed“he recently published his first book free speech why it matters which came out in 2021”
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Ungifted
Discussed“he wrote wired to create unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind with carolyn gregoire in 2016 and ungifted intelligence redefined in 2013”
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Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence
Discussed“he co-edited the cambridge handbook of intelligence in 2011 which is a major academic text”
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Successful Intelligence
Discussed“just sophomore year in college i was reading i wrote the i read the book successful intelligence by robert sternberg”
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Made in America
Discussed“so your previous book the uh the new york times refused to basically acknowledge it as being printed america”
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
Discussed“one of them in particular dr gm story who wrote over 20 years in collaboration with others the dictionary of newfoundland english”
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Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
Discussed“dr gm story was also one of the editorial advisors for the great oxford english dictionary all 22 volumes of it”
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Samson Agonistes
Discussed“you read milton to find out uh if he was treated his daughter's not this this miracle that we call paradise lost or samson agonisties”
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The Act of Creation
Discussed“the book i was referring to way back and i said i wouldn't quote the title by kessler called the act of creation and it was an analysis of literary insight or literary inspiration”
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Hydriotaphia Urn Burial
Recommended“if especially sir thomas brown and hydra yotappia if you have a model of of high prose and it sits in your head”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Straight time
Discussed“i think in san quentin i'm not sure but he wrote this book about what it was like to do time and get out of jail and all that stuff i guess i never read the book but dustin hoffman read the book fell in love with it wanted to do this movie”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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A Hunger Artist
Discussed“You ever read um franz kafka has a great short story called the hunger artist yeah i love that great story”
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Discussed“You know, if you read Why I'm Not a Christian or any of his other attacks on on metaphysics, you know, he said, "Look, I can only deal with the world I'm in in the senses that I have, and if I can deduce it, I believe it. If it's outside of that, I really can't make meaningful statements about”
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Engines of Creation
Discussed“I actually really respect Drexler for emphasizing greu in engines of creation back in the day”
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Tao Te Ching
Discussed“this is why the first verse of the TA Ching is the da that is namable is not the Eternal da”
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Cultural Materialism
Discussed“Marvin Harris's work called cultural materialism looked at this deeply”
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Reinventing the Sacred
Discussed“one of Kaufman's you know more recent books after investigations and some of the real fundamental stuff was called Reinventing the sacred and it had to do with some of these exact questions”
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Simulacra and Simulation
Discussed“bodard in simulation and simulacra looks at a very different way of looking at how institutional decay in the collective intelligence of a system happens”
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
Recommended“it's worth looking at books like the collapse of complex societies by Joseph tainter it does an analysis of that many of the societies fell for internal institutional Decay”
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The Mathematica Book
Discussed“but what he did is exactly this process of darwin-like exploration is taking these very simple ideas and writing a thousand page book on them”
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Algebra
Discussed“and I should just like take a year of leave and just like read ega the holy textbook el amon de geometry algebraic the elements of algebraic geometry”
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Shape
Discussed“and it's a prominent topic in your new book shape”
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
Discussed“there's a wonderful book about this called i mean there are his own books and then there's like a book that he wrote with burleigh camping guy called winning ways which is such a rich source of ideas”
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Duel at Dawn
Recommended“i think i'm gonna pick up on something you said i think you would love a book called duel at dawn by amir alexander which i think some of the things you're responding to what i wrote i think i first got turned on to by amir's work”
The Daily Stoic
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The Bomber Mafia
Recommended“and and his new book i would argue is a much more interesting subject matter than any of the other books the bombing campaign the final days of the second world war in the pacific theater”
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The authoritarian personality
Discussed“do you have the book by adorno the authoritarian personality no”
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On Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion
Recommended“but i'd like you to maybe pick up a book that you may have it in your place by max weber uh by max weber capitalism and the protestant ethics”
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For your own good
Recommended“and if you want to read any books you read the swiss psychiatrist the woman um alice miller ellis miller and she she is amazing and the book especially for your own good has to do with hitler having a terrible childhood beaten by his father and and that had agreed you to do that”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Talented Tenth
Discussed“you know Du Bois wrote about this notion of The Talented 10th among black Americans being the educated the intellectual the elite cultural black Americans from let's call it a century ago who he argued would set an example that would lead all black Americans to Aspire to those same things”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Superman - Action Comics
Discussed“so in action comics 14 you can look this up superman visits the hayden planetarium”
This Week in Startups
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All Tomorrow's Parties
Recommended“yeah i mean if for people who haven't read william gibson's bridge trilogy all tomorrow's parties uduru i don't know what the third one was but i i remember reading them back in the day”
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Idoru
Recommended“yeah i mean if for people who haven't read william gibson's bridge trilogy all tomorrow's parties uduru i don't know what the third one was but i i remember reading them back in the day”
Conversations with Tyler
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The unity of philosophical experience
Discussed“and this book is called the unity of philosophical experience”
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The Life of Jesus
Discussed“we know that he read david strauss's life of jesus”
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The fragility of goodness
Discussed“i don't know if you remember martha nussbaum's uh fragility of goodness”
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The Poverty of Historicism
Discussed“say when i read popper if i look at the areas i know best that he wrote on poverty of historicism open society and its enemies i find i agree with a very high percentage of his conclusions”
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The Myth of the Framework
Discussed“i i'm um i'm very fond of the myth of the framework but i'm not sure that i would recommend that as a starting point”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Bounce
Discussed“i remember reading your book a long time ago on a plane bounce”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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A General History of the Pyrates
Discussed“pirate system of governance was laid out in a published series of volumes called a general history of the Pirates in the early 18th century this book was like a bestseller in its time this wasn't some obscure book and so it is totally conceivable that Madison for example or Jefferson both of whom were voracious readers and had enormous”
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WTF?!
Recommended“and check out his book WTF an economic tour of the weird the best description I can think of for that book it's just like Freakonomics on steroids”
Pod Save America
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In Five Years
Discussed“and in five years by rebecca searle”
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Rosie Revere, Engineer
Discussed“my primary reading right now is rosie revere engineer and its compendium book”
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Iggy Peck, Architect
Discussed“my primary reading right now is rosie revere engineer and its compendium book iggy peck architect”
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The Way to Win
Discussed“i'm sort of haunted by a book you and i know well a book called the way to win that came out in 2006 about the 2008 presidential election and told everyone about what would matter and who could possibly win and if you read that book you will find nary a mention of barack obama”
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After the Fall
Recommended“i'm halfway through a little more than halfway through uh rhodes's book after the fall which you should all go by ben is now number three on the new york times bestseller list he's just he's on bill o'reilly's heels nipping at the hill so go by after the fall”
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While Justice Sleeps
Discussed“and my wife emily uh was reading your latest novel uh well justice sleeps and she had this like pained expression on her face and i was like do you not like it and she said no i love it”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Hundredth Monkey
Discussed“And it was a little bit like the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, whereate a certain point, enough of humanity, or in that case, enough of the monkeys, had learned a particular skill that it became exponential across the species.”
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The Hidden Life of Trees
Recommended“The future is found in "The Hidden Life of Trees", which is the book about the economic system of the forest. And that economic system of the forest is where there's a need, the need will be met, because the need has a supply that will meet it.”
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We Happy Few
Discussed“I remember there was a novel written by a faculty wife at Harvard called, "We Happy Few". So there was always the sense that we were this elite.”
Big Technology Podcast
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All Gas, No Brakes
Discussed“all gas snow breaks began as a kind of memoir storybook that i wrote about my experiences hitchhiking across america”
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The Devil's Playbook
Discussed“Joining us today is the author of The Devil's Playbook, a new book about the rise and fall of Juul, the sleek electronic cigarettes your kids probably hit.”
ChooseFI
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Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?
Discussed“Brian it has a book that's coming out with choosify publishing later on this year and we'll do an announcement on that in the near future talking about why does the stock market go up”
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
Discussed“So in the lead up to the United States Constitution, the Constitution Convention, in the summer of 1787, the Federalist Papers, anti-Federalist Papers were authored. They were writing back and forth.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Cancer Journals
Discussed“i'm going to mispronounce this is it audrey lords the cancer journals john green's the fault in our stars which probably be more familiar to people and then i read that your true quote unquote sick girl bible was lucy greeley's autobiography of a face”
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The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal
Discussed“literally to my left about a foot and a half away is a copy of the morning pages journal the artist's way morning pages journal by julia cameron”
