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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2022
During July 2022, several notable podcast episodes featured discussions on historical conflicts, physical health, and psychological recovery. On Behind the Bastards, James Stout recommended multiple titles, including Nazi Games, Helen Graham's Very Short Introduction on the Spanish Civil War, and Agustín Guillamón's Ready for the Revolution, providing listeners with concise and detailed resources on twentieth-century political history. Michael Yon appeared on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast to highlight Joost Meerloo's The Rape of the Mind while analyzing brainwashing and cult dynamics. On The Daily Stoic, Tony Gonzalez expressed his admiration for the host's writings, specifically noting how Bob Roth's Strength in Stillness helped him manage his early career pressures. Brian Cox spoke on StarTalk Radio, recommending Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky's The Theoretical Minimum for those interested in mastering the foundations of quantum mechanics. Bill Burr used the Monday Morning Podcast to recommend Wilmington's Lie by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson alongside Marilyn Rice Cub's Famous, describing his eclectic reading habits. Finally, on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Lindsey Stirling reflected on her recovery from anorexia, highlighting Jenni Schaefer's Life Without Ed as an instrumental resource because of its unique approach of personifying an eating disorder.
Behind the Bastards
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Nazi Games
Recommended“The book called the Nazi games pretty good on that if you want to read it. Um lots of books about the 30 36 Olympics.”
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The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Recommended“If people want to read books, since this has already been a long episode, I will say, uh, Helen Graham's very short introduction is very good.”
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Ready for Revolution
Recommended“Augustine Giamod's book, Ready for the Revolution, on uh, the affinity groups of the CNT and and Chris Elim stuff on Barcelona is excellent.”
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My Grandfather's Son
Discussed“He feared the evil consequences of idleness," Thomas wrote in My Grandfather's son. "and so made sure that we were too busy to suffer them. In his presence, there was no play, no fun, and little laughter.”
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Judging Thomas
Discussed“People love to talk about conflicts interraially, he told the reporter Ken Foscet, who published a biography of Thomas, Judging Thomas, in 2004. They never talk about the conflicts and tensions intrraially.”
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Supreme Discomfort
Discussed“Even in that millu, Kevin Marida and Michael Fletcher reported in their 2007 biography, Supreme Discomfort, Thomas's edgy race consciousness stood out. When he saw an interracial couple strolling on campus, he'd loudly demand, "Do I see a black woman with a white man?”
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Assad or We Burn the Country
Discussed“He has a book titled Assad or We Burn the Country, which I admittedly have not read. It's like 500 pages, but I did pull a lot of info from the book and interviews that he's done about it, mostly in regards to the economic stuff that we'll get into later, but it was a very helpful resource.”
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Mothers and Others
Discussed“Dr. Hardy really comes down on the cooperation side of things in her book mothers and others where she brings together all this evidence that we are basically descendants of a place to scene species of cooperative breeders.”
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Predatory States
Discussed“Um here's from the predatory state. The 1980 WACL meeting uh well communist league meeting in Buenos seemed to have been a defining event in exporting the Condor system from the southern cone.”
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Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War
Discussed“I'm going to read a passage here from the book transnational anti-communism and the Cold War about what happened next. At the end of 1943 in the forest of oh god I don't know how to pronounce this”
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The Illusion of Free Markets
Discussed“I'm going to quote now from the book free markets and food riots. And this is talking about specifically the 1700s riots. But yeah uh food riots took several forms.”
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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
Discussed“I'm going to quote now from the book free markets and food riots. And this is talking about specifically the 1700s riots. But yeah uh food riots took several forms.”
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The Story of My Life
Discussed“Most of the knowledge we have of his early life comes from his autobiography, The Story of My Life, which he wrote 40 years after the experiments that are going to take up the bulk of our discussion today.”
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Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale (The Yale Scene: University Series)
Discussed“I found a book uh Joining the Club which began as a sophomore term paper by a guy named Dan A. Orin uh who's a 1979 Yale grad um that documents anti-semitism reaching from fraternity brothers to board trustees at Yale.”
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A Peace to End All Peace
Discussed“And I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from the book, A Peace to Endall Peace, that describes how this functioned in practice. The cabinet, which is like the governing agency of the condominium, in this instance, allowed Kitchener's agency to establish the prototype of the form of rule”
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The Routes Not Taken
Discussed“To never stop building, as Joe Rascin, author of the routes not taken, puts it. The idea was to allow the subway system to expand and let the city go around it. he says. And so subway lines stretched quickly by today's standards anyway into undeveloped areas”
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Trans and Autistic
Discussed“I wrote a book on trans and autistic folks. It's sort of a series of interviews with folks. Um, and you know, I mean, I just asked them like about their lives”
The Book Review
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Winter Work
Discussed“Dan fesperman is here to talk about his latest Thriller winter work”
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Safe Houses
Discussed“she had a supporting role in your novel safe houses”
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The Cover Wife
Discussed“and then she was the lead character in your most recent novel before this one the cover wife”
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Memoirs
Discussed“you know the poet Robert LOL he's been dead since 1977 he has a new book out called Memoirs and it's new in the sense that I describe it in my review as a sort of finding an an undeveloped role of film from 1954”
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Life studies
Discussed“but it led to the autobiographical poems in his breakthrough book life studies which came out in 1959”
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This Body I Wore
Discussed“the poet Diana gch is here to talk about her new book this body I wore which our reviewer calls an achingly beautiful Memoir about a trans woman's often vexed relationship with her own body”
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The Crane Wife
Discussed“CJ Hower talks about her essay collection the crane wife including the title piece which went viral when the Paris review published it in 2019”
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Family of Origin
Discussed“she is the author of two novels family of origin and the from a ways”
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Otherbound
Discussed“one of them which is just out is Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo oara and this is her second novel her third book and her first really overt satire I would say”
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Harry Sylvester Bird
Discussed“one of them which is just out is Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo oara and this is her second novel her third book and her first really overt satire I would say”
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The Last White Man
Discussed“so that was one of the books that I wrote about another that's coming out soon called the last white man is also very overtly about racial identity”
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Discussed“in 's case she started thinking about it several years ago when she was teaching a class at Colombia a writing class and they were talking about the issue of cultural appropriation in novels like William styron's the confession of Nat Turner or in Memoirs of AA books where white writers had tried to write about someone from another background”
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Discussed“in 's case she started thinking about it several years ago when she was teaching a class at Colombia a writing class and they were talking about the issue of cultural appropriation in novels like William styron's the confession of Nat Turner or in Memoirs of AA books where white writers had tried to write about someone from another background”
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Son of Elsewhere
Discussed“elamine Abdel mmud talks about his new Memoir son of Elsewhere about growing up in Canada after moving there from Sudan when he was 12”
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Colonia Lebarón / the Colony
Discussed“the investigative journalist and author Sally Denton discusses the colony which explores a Mormon sect in Mexico”
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American massacre
Discussed“I'd written a book called American Massacre about the Mountain Meadows Massacre in southern Utah in 1857 and many of the perpetrators of that Massacre left to go into hiding 20 years later when the US government was demanding that somebody in Utah territory be held accountable for the massacre”
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Fellowship Point
Discussed“Alice Elliot dark is here to discuss her new novel Fellowship point about the lifelong friendship between two women”
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Joan
Discussed“Katherine Chen joins me to discuss Joan her new novel Imagining the life of Joan of Arc”
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The testament of Mary
Discussed“because I was so inspired by uh The Testament of Mary by col toine”
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The Trial of Joan of Arc
Discussed“and I read this from Daniel hobbins excellent work which is titled the trial of Joan of Arc”
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A word child
Discussed“I'm finishing finally this novel called a word Child by Iris Murdock which came out in the mid 70s”
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In the gloaming
Recommended“so if people have not read in the gling they should do so immediately”
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Thank You for Listening
Recommended“I am fan girl screaming so far over a book that I just picked up last night called thank you for listening by Julia whan”
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Elegy for Iris
Recommended“and speaking of Iris Murdoch I have to ask if you've read El for Iris by John Bailey”
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Night of the Living Rez
Discussed“Morgan talty is here to talk about his debut Story collection Night of the Living Rez plus my colleague Liz Harris will be here with news from the publishing world and the times as critics Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs will be here to talk about books they've recently reviewed”
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The Passage
Discussed“so I'm thinking of something like the last of us which feels quite a bit like the road or the passage by Justin Cronin games call on literature all the time”
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I Used to Live Here Once - the Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Discussed“and anyway this book is called I used to live here once the haunted life of Jee ree by Miranda Seymour”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Under the Banner of Heaven
Discussed“under the banner of heaven is a true crime tale adapted by milk writer dustin lawrence lance black from john krakauer's non-fiction tome the mini series layers on some fictional elements to the story and has reignited criticism”
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The Road to Wigan Pier
Discussed“so and and for the for the reason my dad uh he grew up in a very poor part of the north of england which is wigan orwell actually wrote a book about it the road to wigan pier talking about the deprivation of that of that particular part of the world”
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The Untethered Soul
Recommended“it's from the untethered soul a book that i haven't read but i know that quote from a great quote”
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Carrie
Discussed“all but carrie carrie was amazing”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Flash Boys
Discussed“So there's a lot of people like traders who get super into this, like high-frequency traders, and arbitrage, and all kinds of interesting topics. Flash Boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing.”
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The New Economics
Recommended“he has written several books I recommend including the new economics and Manifesto and debunking economics”
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Debunking Neo-classical Economics
Recommended“he has written several books I recommend including the new economics and Manifesto and debunking economics”
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earth abides
Recommended“and there's a wonderful science fiction book called the Earth abides about a world in which humans get wiped out there's only a tiny band left and then the Earth reasserts itself”
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A Brief History of Doom
Recommended“so you had a housing bubble at the beginning of the 1920s which Richard vague covers beautifully in the uh brief history of Doom”
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Human Diversity
Discussed“a book is called human diversity he talks about race and he talks about gender”
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Facing Reality
Discussed“a book called facing reality where he talks about this again”
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The neuroscience of intelligence
Recommended“You give, first of all, you have a great book on the neuroscience of intelligence.”
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Pere Goriot
Discussed“You know, I wanted to see Paris because I had fallen in love with Honore Balzac, who wrote- Balzac, yeah. A phenomenal set of novels that I just ate up.”
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Stalin's Master Narrative
Discussed“Interestingly enough, the first book I was given to read was the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Oh, so understand, yeah, that's interesting.”
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Perestroika
Discussed“When Gorbachev wrote his book about perestroika and glasnost the East German rulers did not like it. They were much more orthodox. So they had to print the books in translation. Guess where they wound up? They were piled up in the hallways of the Stasi. They bought the entire print run.”
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The Chess Computer Handbook
Discussed“and i remember thinking um this is amazing you know how how has someone programmed uh uh this this chess board to play chess uh and uh it was very formative book i bought which was called the chess computer handbook by david levy which came out in 1984 or something”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The rape of the mind
Recommended“rape of the mind uh which is a great book which was written in netherlands right here you know because this has happened many times in the past”
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JACK. STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT.
Discussed“so jack walsh in this book straight from the gut a weird thing he said you know once you have a doubt on somebody you never act fast enough”
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Deceit and Self-Deception
Discussed“in 2011 he published a popular book deceit and self-deception fooling yourself the better to fool others published in the u.s as the folly of fools”
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The Folly of Fools
Discussed“in 2011 he published a popular book deceit and self-deception fooling yourself the better to fool others published in the u.s as the folly of fools”
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Peacemaking among Primates
Discussed“i've read about seven of his books uh peacemaking among primates i thought that was a great book”
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Good Natured
Discussed“good natured the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals another great book”
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Male and female
Discussed“so you mentioned margaret mead who's often mentioned in the context of cultural construction of of gender differences but i reread her book her book male and female and she has a whole section in there about what she calls universal differences between men and women”
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Different
Recommended“and most recently different gender through the eyes of a primatologist i would highly recommend to all of those who are watching and listening that you pick up any or all of dr dewall's books”
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Live Not by Lies
Discussed“today we are posed to discuss his newest book live not by lies inspired not least by the great alexander solzhenitsyn author of the gulag archipelago the book that helped bring down the evil soviet empire”
Freakonomics Radio
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Discussed“Instead, he's trying to make philosophy accessible to all. Here's an example: an excerpt from 'Nasty, Brutish, and Short.'”
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Private Government
Discussed“my colleague Elizabeth Anderson wrote a book a few years ago called private government”
The Daily Stoic
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Strength in Stillness
Recommended“Yes, yes; of all the books, I’ve read a majority of your books, stillness is the one that touched me the most, because I think that was part of my problem in those first two years in the league.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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A Study of History
Discussed“somewhat ephemeral or ambiguous like let's say there's like a some historian like uh twenbee right he wrote uh study of history and one of the things he says in it is like civilizations die”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Blood Gun Money
Discussed“and i've already at this point given the uh during the show intro the no kids in the car warning for listening to this show because some of the things in in the book i read blood gun money and and uh and i i enjoyed it”
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Demystifying China's Mega Trends
Discussed“in high school my freshman year we've read a book that I think was called Mega Trends or something like that have you heard of this and I think they're doing an updated version like right now”
StarTalk Radio
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The Theoretical Minimum
Recommended“there's a leonard suskind he's one of the great um black hole theorists a great theoretical physicist people wrote by the way a brilliant book called the theoretical minimum if you're really interested in quantum mechanics and you really want to get down into it his book theoretical minimum i've got mechanics superb”
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Cosmos
Discussed“so i think they the two of them together as a creative pair because they published several books together co-wrote their first cosmos together”
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Discussed“On that same note, Nicholas Lenson says, in Scott Kelly's book, Endurance, he mentions that an astronaut who has to wear glasses during a spacewalk—contact lenses weren't an option—had to glue his glasses to his head during his spacewalk to prevent them from falling.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Democracy Betrayed
Recommended“I recommend Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892 and the Rise of White Supremacy and Marilyn Rice Cub's Famous! I'm all over the road here, that's how I like to read, you know?”
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The Jordan Rules
Discussed“It's like the whole thing, like I read this whole, this great magazine out about Jordan, how he just kept working and working and working and working and working and you can literally read the article and not be a Jordan but just apply that, right, and work and work and work.”
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Silent Spring at 50
Recommended“Oh Jesus, there's an environmentalist book that I wanted to read that this female scientist wrote back in the day called 'Silent Spring.'”
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Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861
Discussed“I don't know, I was reading that Wilmington book, and it was like the cop would come down and tell the black people, 'Alright, you gotta disperse.'”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Impossible First
Discussed“you know that's a memoir about my life that's me just like the finding ultra is about your life”
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Recommended“um the book that has changed my life the most hands down is the big book of alcoholics anonymous”
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Hua Hu Ching
Recommended“it's funny you should say that because my book the book i'm thinking of is called hua hu ching it's the unknown teachings of lao tzu”
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The Longevity Diet
Recommended“Probably get my book. I don't make a penny out of it. It's all going to the- 100% of the funds go to charity or to the foundation.”
Huberman Lab
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Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement
Discussed“And as all good physician scientists do, he wrote up his results. And he wrote it up in a paper entitled lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement. Okay, back then they didn't call it mania, they called it psychotic excitement. This is a paper that was published September 3rd, 1949 in the Medical Journal of Australia, a classic”
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High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
Recommended“I just read his book; I didn't get a chance to meet him, so I'm jealous, right?”
Timcast IRL
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13th amendment
Discussed“read the 13th amendment it allows for slavery with uh”
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The Destruction of Black Civilization
Recommended“in fact the you know if you read this book by chancellor william called destruction of african civilization uh there's uh if i'm not misquoting him but there's a part in there that basically says islam is the reason why african civilizations fell”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Life Without Ed
Recommended“One of the most helpful books I ever read for my anorexia was a book called Life Without Ed, and it's where this woman personified her eating disorder, and she talked to it.”
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Radical Love
Recommended“I'm so excited to talk to my dear friend, an awesome human being, about his new book, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others, something we all need to do.”
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Radical Confidence
Recommended“she has written her first book called radical confidence 10 no bs lessons on becoming the hero of your own life”
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Worth of Water
Recommended“Matt and Gary, thank you so much for being here, and I know today we're talking about your book, The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge.”
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A Christmas Carol
Discussed“It's when you talk about in the book, and it just looks like just how it's shocking to me because the things that you're talking about, and then I look at how old you are in that section, I'm like, "What?”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Criminal (in)Justice
Recommended“i want people to buy this book this is an important book and you guys do great work you in particular so to tell the audience again it's criminal injustice injustice with the push for decarceration and de-policing gets wrong and who it hurts most”
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Liberal Misery
Discussed“Right? Like what's What is the solution to liberal misery, the name of his book?”
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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Discussed“I remember that scene from um To Gillian on her 37th birthday. Do you remember that film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher with the eyebrows?”
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Reproducing Race
Discussed“she's written books like reproducing race and ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization oh it's perfect right”
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The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Discussed“the poverty of privacy rights”
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Critical Race Theory
Discussed“critical race theory of primer or primer if you like”
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What If Love Is the Point?
Discussed“they recently released a memoir titled what if love is the point living for jesus in a self-consumed world”
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Taco USA
Recommended“There's a great book I can't recommend highly enough by our friend Gustavo Arellano called Taco USA. We ran a piece in Reason cover story about that.”
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Who Do I Think I Am?
Recommended“angela recently released a memoir called who do i think i am who do i think i am stories of chola wishes and caviar dreams”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Coup D'etat
Discussed“and this is a book called coup d'etat a practical handbook by edward n lutvak i'm imagining that's how you pronounce it l-u-t-t-w-a-k and it was originally published in 1968”
SmartLess
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All About Me!
Discussed“So I got a—I called my agency and they put me in touch with a literary guy who had just written the Mel Brooks book, a guy named Eddie Freefeld, who's a big fan of comedy.”
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Discussed“one of his earliest jobs was an assistant stage manager for a play adaptation of the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's”
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Discussed“when I mention your father was a Burroughs who amongst many other great things broke Guys and Dolls won the Pulitzer Prize for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying both massive gigantic massive hits on Broadway”
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A Brief History of Time
Critiqued“Well, no, for instance, I've tried to read that book A Brief History of Time... It's not so brilliant.”
Modern Wisdom
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Hyperfocus
Discussed“Give me your understanding of the relationship between productivity and creativity cuz I had Chris Bailey that wrote Hyperfocus on the show.”
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Hyperion
Recommended“So, some of the ones that come to mind, I think my favorite of all time is Hyperion. Hyperion. I think it's Dan Simmons. It's being made into a TV show right now.”
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Lilith's Brood
Recommended“Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler was a really a big favorite exploring more of the biological side of science fiction instead of technology so much.”
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Too Many Women?
Discussed“uh one book that influenced me earlier in my career was uh marcia gutentag and paul c card's book too many women who went through a ton of data about sex ratio differences”
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Discussed“uh so you know i noticed too uh back in the sexual revolution when i was a young man there were all these books explaining female sexuality to them our bodies ourselves and whatnot and they didn't produce these books for men”
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The Sex Diaries
Discussed“uh yes well um uh i read this uh book some years ago this australian woman uh a journalist with some social science background uh um she had contacted me and had a book called the sex diaries and i wanted to know if she could get it if i could help her publish it in america”
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Verissimus
Recommended“and then obviously when you write other stuff like right from a different perspective the graphic novel i suddenly had to think what did this look like”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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A Really Good Day
Recommended“you can look up called a really good day which is one woman's journey using micro dosing and that's just what she described it”
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The Pirate Coast
Discussed“another book that I read called the pirate Coast which la which laid out the uh how the US dealt with the barber pirates in Libya in 1804 1805”
The Rubin Report
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How to Master the Art of Selling
Discussed“But when I got out of the military, I had a mentor of mine, Robbie, who recommended me a book called "How to Master the Art of Selling" by Tom Hopkins.”
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There in Sales: How Successful Salespeople Take it to the Next Level
Discussed“And my sister recommended me "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Bill Carnegie.”
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Influence and Impact
Discussed“And my sister recommended me "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Bill Carnegie.”
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Your Next Five Moves
Discussed“So let's talk about your book for a second., So "Your Next Five Moves", you've well, you've been kind of hitting on all the moves in a way here in the time that we've been talking, what's kind of next for you?”
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Killing the Killers
Recommended“The book is "Killing the Killers". We're gonna link to it right down below.”
This Week in Startups
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Power
Discussed“We're going to talk about his new book, Seven Rules for Power. It's basically how you can gain power in the business workplace. It's super candid.”
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You're Invited
Recommended“And the other is a book by my friend John Levy, You're Invited. John Levy is an influencer. He talks in his book about how to put on events that people want to come to.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The Alchemy of Air
Recommended“And if not for the invention of the Haber-Bosch process, which you can read about in the book The Alchemy of Air, and the creation of ammonia as a synthetic fertilizer, humans would all have starved in the mid-20th century.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Paper Lion
Discussed“And that was when I was 13, my parents gave me a a book called Paper Lion. It's a book of sports writing. It was about football by a writer named George Plimpton.”
