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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2024
April 2024 podcast conversations frequently explored themes of personal faith, historical investigations, and relationship dynamics. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly introduced Carrie Sheffield's Motorhome Prophecies, while Sheffield herself discussed Timothy Keller's Counterfeit Gods to illustrate her past struggles with false idols. Environmental considerations were addressed on The Ezra Klein Show, where Hannah Ritchie recommended Chris Goodall's Possible as her second book choice. Financial philosophies were discussed on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, where Dave Ramsey mentioned Rabbi Daniel Lapin's Thou Shalt Prosper to explain monetary concepts. Philosophical and spiritual connections arose on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, where Russell Brand recommended Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane to Jordan Peterson, noting its influence on Joseph Campbell. Relationship coaching was featured on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, with Shetty highlighting Matthew Hussey's Love Life. Additional mentions included Megan Nolan's Acts of Desperation, recommended by Leah Greenblatt on The Book Review, and Lisa Pease's A Lie Too Big to Fail, highlighted by the host on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Motorhome Prophecies
Recommended“she credits her conversion to Christianity and the power of forgiveness for her salvation which she writes about in her brand new book motor home prophecies a journey of healing and forgiveness”
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Counterfeit Gods
Recommended“he had a book that I think explained what I went through in this period and it's the title is counterfeit gods and each chapter is basically a false god that we worship in instead of God”
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America on Trial
Discussed“Chris rufo had a great book about it last summer about the 1960s cultural Marxism”
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Hagadah
Discussed“we get a spokesperson from the White House saying the ancient story of persecution against Jews in the hagada which is the book they read during Passover also reminds us that we must speak out against the alarming surge of anti-Semitism in our schools communities and online silence is complicity”
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Younger for Life
Discussed“his new book younger for Life feel great and look your best with the new science of Auto juvenation offers a blueprint for retaining youthfulness naturally”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Discussed“it was uh I came over in 1969 and uh in 1977 uh I picked up Peter Tomkins book secrets of the Great Pyramid and I started to examine uh that book”
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Giza, the Truth
Discussed“and essentially uh what happened was the uh there was a book written I think it was in 1999 it was by uh uh Chris olov heral and Ian Lawson and they it's called geese of the truth”
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Under the Sphinx
Discussed“a fellow researcher uh Manu sh he wrote the book uh under the Sphinx uh he had posted on Facebook uh a paper that had been published”
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The President is Missing
Discussed“Two of them on page 156 of his book; you know this. He says that he doubts the authenticity of the moon landings as president.”
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Social Justice Fallacies
Discussed“I mean Thomas SS leats his book social justice fallacies he talks about how every single Brewery major Brewery in the world was founded by Germans including tinta the Chinese Brewery”
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Fear and Loathing
Recommended“Did you ever read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing; that guy gave sort of the be—that's, I think, probably the best window into an outsider in the political process, at least in terms of the campaign trail.”
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Magicians of the Gods
Discussed“in The Magicians of the Gods I have a quote in here show me”
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
Discussed“So these ones that they were attributing to like the sacred mushroom in the cross, John Marco Allegro's book on Amanita muscaria and the Bible — do you think that it's possible that at one point in time there were psychoactive strains of Amanita muscaria that vary from the ones that people have that have these different sort of more”
Behind the Bastards
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A warning to the Hindus
Discussed“In 1939, Cvitri wrote a warning to the Hindus. The book's forward was written by GD Savvar, brother to one of the co-founders of the RSS. And according to an article by South Asian affairs analyst Peter Friedrich”
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Fateful Triangle
Discussed“And then I think reading The Fateful Triangle by Nam Chosky really solidified that. And uh obviously I Pape kind of was the nail in the coffin for me.”
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My Awakening
Discussed“But while he was doing his time, he read David Duke's autobiography. Oh. And he had an awakening, right? He read My Awakening and he had an awakening in prison.”
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On Stalin's team
Discussed“Uh, Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of 'On Stalin's Team,' which is a book about said team, prefers this word; she uses the term team, but notes, 'quote, alternatives are available.'”
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Bloodlands
Discussed“Writing about this in the book 'Bloodlands,' historian Timothy Snyder claims the only national minority that was highly overrepresented at the end of the NKVD during the Great Terror were the Georgians—Stalin's own.”
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Beria
Discussed“So here's how Knight describes Lavrentiy as an adolescent in the book Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant, ‘Beria was a mediocre student, not excelling in any subject but considered cunning and devious.’”
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Beria, Stalin's first lieutenant
Discussed“so here's how Knight describes lenti as an adolescent in the book Baria Stalin's first lieutenant”
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Power and Authority
Discussed“Lucky for us, Newman published a book on his ideas the same year he parted with LaRouche in 1974. So, the book was called Power and Authority, and he basically cooked up a theory about the mind and society that became the gospel for his cult and the ultimate manual for keeping his followers in check.”
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Terror, Love and Brainwashing
Recommended“Very interesting connections. If people want to learn more about him, they can of course pick up the book or they can check out Terror, Love, and Brainwashing: Attachment and Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein.”
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Wealth & poverty
Discussed“Beyond the Powell memorandum, a major intellectual touchstone of this movement was 'Wealth and Poverty,' a book by George Gilder.”
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Wealth and Poverty
Discussed“a major intellectual Touchstone of this movement was wealth and poverty a book by George Gilder”
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The Fountainhead
Discussed“The company of the commercial faithful gathered on the banks of Cali's Russian River could look for succor to Goldwater's autobiography, The Conscience of a Conservative, to William F. Buckley's editorials in National Review, to the novels of Ayn Rand!”
Timcast IRL
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A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Discussed“This is a great example of something I've talked about multiple times; Herbert Marcuse wrote a paper called 'Repressive Tolerance,' and what's going on here is emblematic of the ideas in that paper. The idea that you have to shut down other people's speech.”
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Galatians
Discussed“the comedian noted the book of Galatians remarks on enlightenment did I pronounce that right”
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The Wretched of the Earth
Discussed“This is like Frantz Fanon in 'The Wretched of the Earth' or whatever he wrote—decolonization is always violent; it's fundamentally violent.”
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The sorrows of empire
Discussed“this is from a book called The Sorrows of Empire militarism secrecy and the end of the Republic by chelmer Johnson who was also the author of blowback”
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The Ten Commandments
Discussed“I mean look at the Ten Commandments honor thy father and thy mother that's been totally severed from the system”
Pod Save America
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BABE
Discussed“You guys just don't know what it's like to live on a farm; sometimes you gotta kill puppies—they're always killing puppies. You ever read Babe or Charlotte's Web? Most of that book is about killing pigs.”
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The Situation Room
Discussed“Later, George Stephanopoulos talks to Dan about covering 2024 in his new book, which is full of untold stories about the White House Situation Room.”
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The Run of His Life
Discussed“Um, the one thing I do remember about that moment was that was really the moment where Jeffrey Toobin kind of ascended into the cultural consciousness, like he was the one reporting on that case from Los Angeles. He later wrote what I think is one of the best legal books ever, um, irrespective of what you might think about”
Speaker Donald Trump Reportedly Snoozes Through Day 1 of Criminal Trial 2024-04-16 Listen at 1:10:32 -
The Trump Indictments
Recommended“But The Run of His Life is one of the best legal books I have ever read, with the exception of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents and Commentary by Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissman. That's exactly right.”
Speaker Donald Trump Reportedly Snoozes Through Day 1 of Criminal Trial 2024-04-16 Listen at 1:10:42 -
Drawdown
Discussed“The Her Foundation had this report, the 2025 Project, and in it, they talk about how the next conservative administration has to obviously sign a national abortion ban if they can get it through Congress. But even if they can't, yes, they want to go after mifepristone.”
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2020
Recommended“I got two theses on these: one is the Eric Klinenberg who just got a great book out now about the pandemic called 2020.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Not the End of the World
Discussed“that's a question that Hannah Richie the lead researcher at our world and data set out to answer in a book not the end of the world”
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Possible
Recommended“my second pick is a book called possible by Chris goodle”
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Knife
Discussed“and his latest book knife is about the attack it's about his life”
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The Shadow
Discussed“I want to begin with a story you mention a little bit offhandedly in the book which is this story about the Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson”
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Shalimar The Clown
Discussed“and I've written a lot about Kashmir I wrote about it in Midnight's Children I wrote about it in shalomar the clown”
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Joseph Anton
Discussed“then I think you've sort of admitted to giving you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person”
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Where good ideas come from
Discussed“It made me think of Steven Johnson's book were good ideas come from and one of his arguments in that book is that great ideas often come from adjacency”
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Interviews with Francis Bacon
Recommended“one of them is a book of interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester I think there's nine of them I learned more about art from reading these interviews”
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Faux Pas
Recommended“another book written by one of the subjects of the book Amy s is a book called faux PA she's a great painter she is amazing writer and this book is so much fun”
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Richard Diebenkorn
Recommended“it's the sketch books of Richard deborn it's just pages and pages and pages of years and years and years of his SketchBooks”
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Don't Blame Us
Recommended“the first is by Lily gismer it's called don't blame us and it's a book uh that looks very closely at the Boston suburbs to see the changes that led to a lot of the regulations and opposition that is causing a lot of the sclerosis we see today”
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Recommended“and then there's bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome it's another really great book about environmentalism and really kind of situates environmentalism in the United States as coming up as a reaction to changes in the urban core”
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The Expanse
Recommended“The expanse series of books so I initially watched the show and then then I read all the books”
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The Guns of August
Recommended“and then uh my my third recommendation would be actually The Guns of August which is basically history of how World War I started”
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The AI Mirror
Discussed“Shannon Valor is a philosopher of technology and she's got a book coming out called the AI mirror”
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Extremely Hardcore
Recommended“the other obviously I have to shout it out is extremely hardcore By Zoe Schiffer who basically wrote about the downfall of Twitter”
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The Conquest of Cool
Recommended“so the first one is the conquest of cool by Thomas Frank one of my favorite books of all time”
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Liar in a Crowded Theater
Recommended“two is liar in a crowded theater by Jeff kasof which is a book about the First Amendment”
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Substance
Recommended“it's substance inside new order by Peter hook who is the basist of new order”
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Everything I Need I Get from You
Recommended“the first is everything I need I get from you by Caitlyn Tiffany who's one of my favorite Verge expats”
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Beyond Measure
Recommended“and then the third is beyond measure by James Vincent which is a history of the systems of measurement”
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Co-Intelligence
Discussed“he's also got a new book on the subject co-intelligence”
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Recommended“one of them is the rise and fall of American growth which is it's two things it's an argument about why we will never have the kind of growth that we did in the first part of the Industrial Revolution again”
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The Knowledge
Recommended“the second book I'd recommend is the knowledge by Darnell which is kind of a really interesting book it is ostensibly a um a survival guide”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Thou Shall Prosper
Recommended“Rabbi Daniel Lapin and we become good friends Rabbi Daniel Lapin he wrote oh he's hiding some he wrote a book called Thou shalt prosper”
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The Deepest Well
Recommended“oh what's her name she's out of San Francisco she just wrote a book called the deepest well now it's a good book”
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Drew Brees
Discussed“but also reading books about Drew Brees understanding the perspective understanding that he went through one of his most challenging times you know when they won the Super Bowl”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Living the Message
Discussed“I read acts again recently in some easy accessible almost slang version of it in fact a man who shares your surname Eugene Peterson's book uh the message”
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The Sacred and the Profane
Recommended“Hey, I got a book for you—read The Sacred and the Profane by Eliade. Yes, sir, he was a big influence on Campbell too, and Eliade is a real genius; he's a real genius.”
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The user illusion
Discussed“The book I know best is probably his most famous work called 'The User Illusion.'”
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Dennett's philosophy
Discussed“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Discussed“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”
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The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception
Discussed“Gibson wrote a great book called 'The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception,' and I believe there are brilliant concepts within it.”
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Dark Nature
Discussed“I read in a book many years ago by L Watson a British biologist who most famous for his book super nature that he wrote In the late 70s”
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The Tragedy of the Commons
Discussed“did did you read the book The Tragedy of the commons by Garrett Hardy yes do you know that one”
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Breaking the spell
Discussed“I was reviewing your book today, "Breaking the Spell," and that’s really the domain that I wanted to discuss, although I'm perfectly happy to branch out from that in anywhere that our conversation takes us.”
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The Company of Strangers
Discussed“I like the way Paul sebrite has put this uh in his book the uh uh in the company of strangers”
Freakonomics Radio
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Inheritance
Discussed“It’s so curious to me because I've read the book 'Inheritance' by Dani Shapiro. I haven't read it, but I know she came from an Orthodox Jewish family and was always the blonde outlier.”
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Common Ground
Discussed“in 2014 just before running for prime minister the first time he published a memoir called Common Ground”
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THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
Discussed“The book he wrote with Raymond Hull was called 'The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.' It wound up selling millions of copies. The book was meant to say corporate strategy.”
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
Discussed“he also wrote a book arguing in favor of open borders to boost the global economy as well as a book called selfish reasons to have more kids in that one he argues that parenting should be fun”
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Age of Revolutions
Discussed“So my sense of reading you, overall particularly reading your new book, 'Age of Revolutions,' is a sense of sadness and surprise that the world finds itself today in a state of peril.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Love Life
Recommended“The right person is the person it happens with, Matthew. AI's book is called Love Life. That hit right there.”
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Open Wide
Discussed“And and so open wide your book. I loved I love that it's not just a cookbook.”
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Worthy
Recommended“Jamie is also an active philanthropist who has funded leadership training in more than 100 prisons and shelters across the United States and has donated over $40 million in product and funds to help women face the effects of cancer with confidence. Jamie is donating 100% of her author proceeds from her new book, Worthy, to charity as well.”
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The Wealth Money Can't Buy
Discussed“which you of course talk about in this book as well.”
The Rubin Report
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The God Delusion
Discussed“I did; just to be clear, he's had that position since The God Delusion about a Christian nation.”
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The End of History and the Last Man
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.”
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The Iran Wars
Discussed“and much more than that uh there's a book by Jay Solomon called the Iran Wars where he talks about how Obama actually foiled um human rights uh programs that were documenting the the the the violations in Iran”
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Get It Together
Discussed“well that that actually gets to the to the heart of the book because when I was uh when I was checking it out this morning you know”
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Enlightenment Now
Discussed“I think human beings don't change, and the story of humanity is not humanity becoming ever better, sort of in the Steven Pinker notion.”
No Stupid Questions
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The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Summary & Analysis
Discussed“That was in his book, The Power of Habit!”
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A Brief History of Intelligence
Recommended“And he said, A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett! And I said to Danny, I was like, never heard of Max Bennett! I spent 20-plus years studying intelligence and what it is and what it's not!”
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I Must Say
Discussed“So he wrote a book called I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend and he actually starts the book with a really interesting anecdote talking about he and his wife Nancy.”
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Weird
Discussed“Her name is Olga Hazan and she is the author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider and Insider World. But she wrote several articles about trying to change her own personality.”
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Peter and Wendy
Discussed“Finally, Mike gets a few details wrong about the story of Peter Pan, at least as it's told in the original 1911 novel 'Peter and Wendy' by Scottish author and playwright J.M. Barrie.”
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Zoom
Discussed“I will say one of the best pieces of advice I heard recently was from someone who was telling me about a children's book, I don't know what book it is, but the entire book just repeats over and over the two words, 'Zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, and maybe that's the power of nostalgia.'”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Road to Freedom
Discussed“So, let's talk about your most recent work; you've got a new book out called The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.”
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Globalization and its discontents
Discussed“one of the things that I found most interesting when I read globalization and its discontents which was your first book written for a popular audience”
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Two lucky people
Discussed“can I tell you a funny story actually goes back to Milton Friedman when his book with rose Freedman his autobiography came out I just come to Chicago and they were having a book party out on the west coast”
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Noise
Discussed“but more seriously what's striking about your new book which is called noise is that while it builds on your enormous lifelong academic accomplishments many of the ideas are new and you've created these ideas in the last 10 years”
The Book Review
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Everything I Know About Love
Discussed“first she had a memoir come out called Everything I Know About Love then she has a novel called ghosts and she has a collection of columns called dear Dolly”
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Ghosts
Discussed“first she had a memoir come out called Everything I Know About Love then she has a novel called ghosts and she has a collection of columns called dear Dolly”
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Dear Dolly
Discussed“first she had a memoir come out called Everything I Know About Love then she has a novel called ghosts and she has a collection of columns called dear Dolly”
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Best Minds
Discussed“you gave that like stirring very evocative dive into Jonathan rosen's best Minds I love that book great great narrative non-fiction”
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Acts of Desperation
Recommended“one more recent book I really enjoyed was Megan Nolan acts of desperation I thought was really good”
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Crossword Puzzle Book
Discussed“RW inter aded about Simon and shuster's first bestseller which was a crossword puzzle book and maybe much like today with the New York Times games are very lucrative”
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Chicka chicka boom boom
Discussed“all right well I'll start with a children's book because it's fun how about Chicka Chicka Boom Boom I think I read that to my child”
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Did I Ever Tell You?
Recommended“it's called did I ever tell you the writer's name is Genevie Kingston and I think that that's an example of gut”
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Roadwork
Discussed“one was a book about a high school students who takes over a class is that was that I think it was road work”
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From a Buick 8
Discussed“you and I are both fans of a book called from a buck8 yes which is a book that came out in the the early 2000s”
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The Colorado Kid
Discussed“you look at the Colorado kid which is a book in which like basically it's all about a mystery and at the end the solution of the mystery is nobody knows”
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Bag of Bones
Discussed“so Duma key he wrote a book a few years earlier called bag of bones that's very similar and the plot description could fit both of them”
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Duma Key
Discussed“but Duma really gets overlooked I think King as he was recovering from this accident which was brutal and a really tough one this guy has had an accident in the book”
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Revival
Recommended“I think a book like Revival or 112263 or girl who love Tom Gordon or these late career very recent in terms books I'd stack any of them up against carry The Shining the stand”
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Recommended“I think a book like Revival or 112263 or girl who love Tom Gordon or these late career very recent in terms books I'd stack any of them up against carry The Shining the stand”
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Apt Pupil
Recommended“so if you're curious about stevenh King and would like a gentle introduction I strongly suggest going to different seasons and reading one of his novelas I would skip app puple”
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The Body
Recommended“but the Shaw Shank Rita Hayworth and the Shaw Shank Redemption the body which Stand By Me is based on and the breathing method are all fantastic novelas”
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The Breathing Method
Recommended“but the Shaw Shank Rita Hayworth and the Shaw Shank Redemption the body which Stand By Me is based on and the breathing method are all fantastic novelas”
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Full Dark, No Stars
Recommended“also he did full dark no stars which is four novellas that are also really quite good”
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The Long Walk
Recommended“but my favorite one the one that I love the most is actually a Bachman book and it's called The Long Walk”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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A Lie Too Big to Fail
Recommended“one book I want to give a big shout out to is a lie too big to fail which you can read for free on archive.org right now by an author named Lisa peas p a e”
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Moo's Law
Discussed“No, but he did publish a book in 2005 called 'Wake Up, Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic Turmoil.' This guy loves New Zealand.”
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Love and Hate in Jamestown
Discussed“And then I didn't know this, but there's this author, David A. Price, who has a book called Love and Hate in Jamestown, and in this book, which I haven't finished, he makes a pretty fascinating case.”
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The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep
Discussed“Oh, yeah, here's a terrifying quote from an author named David Satter in his book The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep. He studies Russia extensively for the Hudson Institute”
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Operation Chaos
Book club“Sorry, Christian Bible, we're going with 'Operation Chaos'; that's the one book we're going to read. So while we are getting a copy of that, we want to hear from you folks.”
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Chaos
Recommended“I just got done reading the 2019 book by author Tom O'Neal, titled 'Chaos: The CIA and Charles Manson.' It dives into the Manson Family and all this other stuff and draws a bunch of conclusions that I think you guys would find interesting.”
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Living Off The Grid
Discussed“And there's this notable book called 'Going Off the Grid' or possibly 'Playing Dead,' which discusses the challenges of successfully committing pseudocide.”
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Playing Dead
Discussed“oh playing dead and it's about how difficult it is to successfully commit pseudocide an author we still haven't interviewed”
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Going Off the Grid
Discussed“called going off the grid I think oh playing dead and it's about how difficult it is to successfully commit pseudocide an author we still haven't interviewed no”
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Alien Secrets
Discussed“why did they let Ian Douglas write a three-part series called solar Warden I mean it's out there you can find it and guess what it's about this what's it about very thing it's a Sci-Fi science fiction three-part series the first one's called alien secrets and it came out in June 2020”
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Dark Archives
Discussed“this was a blog post with a um an exerpt from a book by Megan Rosenblum called Dark archives the librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin”
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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
Discussed“however there is one account from 1883 by an author named Sarah wiuka Hopkins she's the daughter of a pyot chief named wuka and in her book life among the Pirates wrongs and claims she tells a story”
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The Bhopal Saga
Recommended“if we look at the scholarship there's a great in-depth report you can read for free online today called the Bal Saga uh the author ingred eer from Scandinavia delves into four”
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UNDERGROUND BASES
Discussed“that solder by the way also claims in his book underground bases and tunnels that the base Pine Gap or rainfall operates in alternate Dimensions so exist on multiple planes of reality at once”
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Tunnels
Discussed“that solder by the way also claims in his book underground bases and tunnels that the base Pine Gap or rainfall operates in alternate Dimensions so exist on multiple planes of reality at once”
This Week in Startups
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Follow the Story
Recommended“my favorite book on writing is probably actually this book by Jim Stewart James Stewart the who's at the the he's a columnist of the New York Times now but he also used to write for the new New Yorker and still kind of does it's called follow the story if anyone wants to learn how to write Jim Stewart's”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Baby Thief
Discussed“option that book that we were talking about who who was the author again uh Barbara bance Raymond and the book she wrote was baby Thief colon un the untold story of Georgia Tan comma The Babys seller who corrupted adoption”
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On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane
Discussed“and he wrote a book called on the construction organization and general Arrangements of hospitals for the insane”
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Carsick
Discussed“For me, John Waters is a pretty fun one because he hitchhiked and enjoyed it as a kid and then eventually wrote a book. He hitchhiked as a 68-year-old grown man in 2013 from his home in Baltimore to his other home in San Francisco and wrote a book about it called 'John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.'”
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Fire investigation
Discussed“So that book was sort of the standard until 1969, about 25 years later or so, when Paul Kirk, a biochemist and forensic scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, published a different book called 'Fire Investigation.'”
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Fire Investigations
Discussed“the first book about fire investigation was called fire investigations very appropriate uh no colon it was published in 1945 by Harry uh ret of the fire Underwriters investigation Bureau of Canada and it was very much written for an audience of law enforcement to be like all right here's your handbook uh if you want to prove arson right”
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Development as Freedom
Discussed“There’s a great, great book referenced in this same article, written by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, called 'Development as Freedom,' which essentially backs up what we’re discussing.”
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Human sexual response
Discussed“None other than William Masters of Masters and Johnson’s fame said that women should use the drug to avoid falling into the third sex or the neutral gender, which is very off-base to say the least.”
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The Feminine Mystique
Discussed“Yeah, there was a lot of infighting in feminism at the time—there was the Old Guard, kind of personified by Betty Friedan, who wrote The Feminine Mystique, who was kind of opposed to the gay contingent, which she called the Lavender Menace, which she believed prevented mainstream society from accepting feminism and seeing it as credible.”
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The Everglades: river of grass
Discussed“And she was a really good writer and she wrote a book called 'The Everglades: River of Grass,' which is a great title or whatever, but it was apparently a very popular book that changed people's attitudes toward the Everglades.”
The Daily Stoic
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Bury the Chains
Recommended“and so Adam hos child has an amazing book on this called bury the chain”
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The Stoic Challenge
Recommended“The 'stronger' piece is about emotional strength, often leaning on Stoicism—especially the wonderful book, The Stoic Challenge, by William Irvine, which everyone loves.”
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Perennial Seller
Discussed“you have this book called Perpetual seller right perennial seller sorry perennial seller”
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Ametora
Recommended“I was so inspired that I went and bought this book called 'How Japan Saved American Fashion.' I read it, and I learned all about the culture of Japan.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Relativity
Discussed“So that's why I keep needing to distinguish between black holes according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which is book one of 'Spacetime and Geometry,' which is perfectly classical.”
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Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Recommended“He is a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins, host of the Mindscape Podcast that I personally love and highly recommend, and author of many books, including the most recent book series called 'The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,' the first book of which is titled 'Space, Time, and Motion,' and it's on the topic of general relativity.”
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Quanta and Fields
Recommended“And the second coming out on May 14th, so you should definitely pre-order it, is titled "Quanta and Fields."”
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The great shark hunt
Discussed“I really like a particular Hunter S. Thompson book called 'The Great Shark Hunt', where he covers the Ruben Salazar murder by LAPD or LA Sheriff's Department in Boyle Heights in the '70s. His relationship with his lawyer, Oscar Acosta, and that whole saga is great. 'Fear and Loathing' I like, but not as much as his straightforward reporting.”
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Vagabonding in America
Discussed“There was this book— Yeah. called 'Vagabonding in America' by an old hobo Ed Buryn. I read this and it just basically, some of it was outdated. They had stuff in there like the hobo code, like, oh, this moniker on the side of a fence means this person has free soup or something like that.”
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Who Is Barack Obama?
Discussed“Is there any hope here, solutions, short-term, long-term? Obama kind of summarized this beautifully in his book.”
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Forcing the Hand of God
Discussed“There's an incredible book called 'Forcing the Hands of God.' Oh, beautiful book.”
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Anna and Dr Helmy
Discussed“And that book was translated into English called "Anna and Dr. Helmy."”
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The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
Discussed“It was plagiarized from a satirical play called "Conversation in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu."”
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The Bhagavad gita
Discussed“You have spoken about the value of religious faith in your life, particularly your Hindu faith, viewing the Bhagavad Gita as a spiritual guide. What role does faith in God play in your life?”
Modern Wisdom
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When I Woke Up
Discussed“he wrote a book called when I woke up”
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You're Not Listening
Discussed“there's a classic example of this I read about in a book called you're not listening by a woman named Kate Murphy and she's describing this focus group leader”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Unveiling Islam
Recommended“one is called unveiling Islam which I think is a ey opening book and uh you know there's uh I sat with a A Member of Parliament one time and I interviewed them and I asked you know why this is allowed”
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Containment Is Not Possible
Discussed“And in the book, you say something along the lines of humans are reacting like waves are everywhere in human life; this is just the latest wave.”
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Plato's Apology
Discussed“I always get these guys confused with this particular statement; they said books are going to be bad because nobody's going to memorize information anymore, and that was the basis for being a learned person back then.”
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Nuclear War
Recommended“The only solution is – I have to tell you – I'm way more scared of nuclear conflict than I was before reading this book.”
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The Dead Hand
Recommended“And he created a system and again, this is reported by a Washington Post reporter named David Hoffman. He wrote a brilliant book called the dead hand.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Nexus
Recommended“let me give a a shout out to one of my favorite sci-fi book series is called Nexus by romez Nom”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography
Recommended“one of my favorite biographies is um Mahatma Gandhi's the subtitle of his autobiography is my experiments with truth it's not my finding truth it's not the ultimate truth it's my experiments with truth and that for me is a guiding Mantra”
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Optimism
Recommended“Helen Keller who's one of my teachers has an essay on optimism which I highly recommend uh that that you read and um in it says my religion is optimism and she says I look around metaphorically I look around the world and um and what I see is a lot of hardship and difficulty”
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Three Days to See
Recommended“if I may I just want to recommend something else by Helen Keller please so the essay on optimism the second one is an essay that she wrote called three days to see in it she reflects on what she would do if you know having been um blind and deaf for most of her life what would she do”
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The Source
Discussed“and it wasn't really until I started doing my research to write the source that I realized how together these things could be”
Conversations with Tyler
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War, progress, and the end of history, including a short story of the Anti-Christ
Discussed“There was a 1900 one by Solovyev, War Progress and the End of History.”
How I Write
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The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Discussed“So, for example, if I hear something like Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, the problem with that phrase is it gives me too much. But, the pathless path has the right combination of I get what it means, but I also don't get what it means, so it sparks curiosity.”
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Tao: The Pathless Path
Discussed“I mean, Osho has a book called The Pathless Path. You're exploring the pathless path or something, right? It's a word from spirituality, right?”
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High Growth Handbook
Discussed“this was for what became the first Stripe Press book, Elad's High Growth Handbook.”
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An Elegant Puzzle
Discussed“Then I want to say it was some combination of Elegant Puzzle, Dream Machine and Get Together.”
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The Dream Machine
Discussed“Then I want to say it was some combination of Elegant Puzzle, Dream Machine and Get Together.”
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We Should Get Together
Discussed“Then I want to say it was some combination of Elegant Puzzle, Dream Machine and Get Together.”
EconTalk
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The Will to Believe
Discussed“and actually William James is you know he has he's beautiful on this he has this book will to believe as is James purse around”
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The Ritual Effect
Discussed“he is the author of the ritual effect from Habit to Ritual harness the surprising power of everyday actions and that book is our topic for today”
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My Father Left Me Ireland
Discussed“I vividly remember talking to Michael Brendan Dy about his book uh I think am I get the name wrong my father left me Ireland is that the name of it I hope hope that's the name of it”
Huberman Lab
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The End of Poverty
Discussed“And we all went back to college and were there for a service, and I remember being in the airport and I picked up Jeffrey Sachs' 'End of Poverty,' which was a popular book at the time, and just thinking, 'Here's a guy who, like, I don’t know, was doing something pretty mundane, macroeconomics, but he was spending all his”
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10 to 25
Recommended“Yeager is also the author of an important and extremely useful new book entitled '10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People.' The book is scheduled for release this summer, that is, the summer of 2024, and we provided a link to the book in the show notes.”
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Cultures of Growth
Recommended“But um, what I find compelling is a beautiful new book by Mary Murphy called 'Cultures of Growth' who was trained at Stanford under Claude Steele. Uh, was also trained by Carol Dweck, just came out a week ago, and it's getting tons of great press.”
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The End of Faith
Discussed“But also, I mean, I read Sam Harris's first book, 'The End of Faith' in 2006, and so I've followed him for 15 years, religiously read all of his books.”
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Why Buddhism is True
Discussed“I don't know him personally, so public stuff notwithstanding, that's not important to me, but 'Waking Up' and I took an online course with Robert Wright, who wrote 'Why Buddhism is True.'”
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Range
Discussed“Like to use David Epstein's book title, right? It's range.”
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The Bridge at Dong Ha
Discussed“Colonel John Ripley is a guy who won the Navy cross in Vietnam um the book The The bridge of donga is about him... if you read the B the book to Bridget dong High you you are going to have no ability to understand why he's not dead”
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A Fighter's Heart
Recommended“I think it was Sam Sheridan who wrote 'A Fighter's Heart,' an excellent book, and for anyone, male or female, age—who's interested in the human spirit, I recommend 'A Fighter's Heart' because it's about the different fight sports, but it's really about the path of self-discovery that occurs in various martial arts.”
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Fearless
Recommended“This is perhaps a an opportunity to um put a call out there's a a wonderful book I think an important book that isn't so well known in the in the array of quote unquote military and seal books, um which is the book about Adam Brown.”
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Recommended“One of the most important books in my life in the last 12 years has been Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' for the back end of the hero's journey, and I haven't read it.”
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Fearless
Recommended“the book about Adam Brown Yeah The Fearless book I heard they're going to make it into a movie but but what I um what I like about the book is um actually has very little to do with the SEAL Teams totally that's thing is that Adam um had a serious serious problem with addiction that he masked at”
StarTalk Radio
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The Colour of Magic
Discussed“Hi, this is from Michigan and I would like to know if you, Charles, have read the Discworld books! Ah, yes!”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Boiling Energy
Discussed“Well, there's a sociologist book called Boiling Energy about the use of drumming actually as a kind of trance-inducing experience in Africa.”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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How to Build a Universe in Six Days
Discussed“one of my favorite stories in a book I've ever read is in Terry reals book he went and talked to a warrior tribe um one that was Untouched by modern thinking on masculine and feminity”
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No, David!
Recommended“by the time third grade comes you're going to have read the no David books have you read those they're hilarious they're amazing I forgot the author they're called No David”
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Promises I Can Keep
Recommended“there's a a book called promises I can keep which is a it's basically a qualitative inquiry into um single moms and why it's it's it's a deep dive it's by Katherine Eden”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Kill Bill
Discussed“what was it in in Kill Bill that was talking about uh that bill lost his father early so he collected father figures”
SmartLess
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The Chronology of Water
Discussed“This is, uh, this is the chronology of water. Yeah, a long time. Um, and would that be the first film that you direct?”
