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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2024
In November 2024, podcast hosts and guests highlighted a diverse mix of fiction, historical accounts, and behavioral guides. Pod Save America featured a host expressing excitement over the recent release of Neil Stephenson's book Polan, while another segment included Congresswoman Marie Glencamp Perez discussing Eugenia Cheng's The Art of Logic in an Illogical World as a method for breaking down complex culture war issues. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan recommended Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea to Mike Rowe while recounting the true story of the whaling ship Essex. Conversations with Tyler and EconTalk featured Tyler Cowen discussing Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island and recommending Vasily Grossman's An Armenian Sketchbook to illustrate Grossman's non-fanatical nature. Huberman Lab with Andrew Huberman directed listeners to show notes for Ethan Kross's forthcoming book Shift, which focuses on managing emotions. On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Dr. Sarah Hill mentioned Rebecca Traister's All the Single Ladies while discussing women choosing to remain single, and Steven Bartlett discussed the UK and US titles of Dr. Hill's own book regarding birth control.
Behind the Bastards
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The Strong-willed Child
Critiqued“I'm like appalled reading like to train up a child by the pearls or or the strong willed child by James Doson which like to be clear the strong willed child is a bad thing.”
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Don't Make Me Count to Three
Critiqued“like the people I spoke to had sort of broken away largely from this culture, but many of the sort of most obedient soldiers in the armies army of God are that way because again I can't overemphasize how much these parenting manuals”
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Wild Faith
Discussed“Thank you so much for coming on today to talk with me about your new book, Wild Faith. It is coming out in just a few weeks, uh, October 15th, right?”
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Pigs in the Parlor
Discussed“Pigs in the Parlor was this really big hit in like the 70s and it's been like reissued and reissued and millions of copies and it's just like on one level it's really compelling because it's like are you tired?”
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Culture Warlords
Discussed“So, you know, your first book, Culture Warlords, was traumatizing for you to craft, right? because you had to spend so much time in these digital spaces in some in some cases physical spaces with you know neo-Nazis 4chan guys um you know aspiring terrorists”
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Outspoken
Discussed“So, I don't think that those terms need to necessarily be like I don't think there's anything bad about those terms per se in and of themselves, but I think sometimes they can be used in ways and part of why I reference this the cis and trans essay that I wrote many years ago.”
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The Dorm Room Diet
Discussed“His daughter seems to be getting in on the griff, too, with books like The Dorm Diet, which she wrote when she was in college. I think Theor Diet.”
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Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield
Discussed“And that same year, he went further, having read Forster's ghost story, Dr. Watt, in which a man dies after a gay sexual encounter.”
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Discussed“Laurence was even more explicit about his actions that day in Seven Pillars in a Madness born of the horror of tus we killed and killed even blowing in the heads of the fallen and of the animals as though their death and running blood could slake our agony”
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Why Fish Don't Exist
Recommended“I recommend a book called Why Fish Don't Exist. It's a great book. I am here with the brilliant brilliant Mia Wong.”
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Guerrilla leader
Discussed“Uh, James Schneider writes in his book Gorilla Leader, he discovered then the reality in modern war that the civilian population will always suffer when a European power pursues its national interests without regard to the culture and political aspirations of the native populace.”
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Setting the Desert on Fire
Discussed“I want to quote now from a book called Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr. At the Times Valette, Cho believed that the Sultan's power as Khalif gave him a disturbing and disruptive political influence worldwide.”
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The young T.E. Lawrence
Recommended“Um, in the wonderful book The Young T.E. Lawrence, biographer Anthony Satin writes that Lawrence and his four brothers never, quote, 'had an unhappy or even an unsettled life.'”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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YOU: The Owner's Manual
Discussed“Dr Rosen wrote a series of books called the it was the you series like you the owner's manual you on a diet”
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
Discussed“They okay, got it, in the books, you also see also see it mentioned as, you know, kind of like when people are following a religion and they rationalize they're doing by citing a book.”
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The Department of Truth #2
Recommended“It's a comic series that you can get in these little graphic novel compendium things called 'Department of Truth.' Without spoiling it too much, it's based on a secret government society that attempts to ensure conspiracy theories aren't believed by enough people. It manifests in the real world.”
Pod Save America
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Seveneves / Seveneves
Recommended“It just came out, but Neil Stevenson has a new book called Polan, which I'm very excited to read, Polan.”
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
Recommended“There’s a really good book called The Art of Logic in an Illogical World that talks about how to take these big culture war issues and break them down into constituent parts. It's about removing the proper nouns; for instance, like, 'Hunter Biden's laptop.'”
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American Values
Critiqued“So the first line, I'm going to mess it up, but the first line in RFK's book American Values is something like, I knew very early that the world was made up of gods and monsters, good and evil. And it was like, no, no, it's not.”
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The Years of Rice and Salt
Discussed“Our friend Terry Slat has a new book out, and I was doing a book event with him. In his book, he talks about how the only time in his life he'd ever been disappointed with Barack Obama was during that speech.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Expressly Human
Discussed“I had the opportunity to talk to Mark changii who is an author of this book expressly human and a number of other books”
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The meaning of conservatism
Discussed“and then we uh end that course with a contemporary version of conservatism uh Roger scrutin meaning of conservatism which came out a few years before he died”
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Lament for a nation
Discussed“and he wrote his famous book lament for a nation um with the defeat of Dean Baker um in the 62 election”
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Snow White
Discussed“so you you have published Snow White yeah”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Discussed“But there was a guy named Scott Maruna, who was a high school chemistry professor and grew up in Charleston, about 12 miles away from Mattoon. He decided to go to Mattoon a few years back and talked to some locals and put together a book about the subject: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon.”
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Torso
Discussed“so there's I I didn't see I haven't read it but there's a graphic novel and maybe it's a series called torso that is um about all this and I'm guessing that would probably be a pretty good basis for the movie”
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Frugal housewife
Discussed“One of the other things I saw, um, there's a book called The Economical Housewife from the 1850s that it might be the first recipe for dandelion wine, and people still make that today.”
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How to Sharpen Pencils
Discussed“what's the name of his book about artisanal pencil sharpening I think it's how to how to sharpen pencils”
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It
Recommended“I've always wanted to write in, but just hadn't found the right topic until the 'It' stranger things script retooling debate during emojis. Stephen King is by far my favorite author and it is my absolute favorite of his novels! Highly recommend!”
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Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?
Recommended“there's a a researcher named Gina Pera who came out with a much more balanced look it seems like a ADHD called is it you me or do ADHD”
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Self-Care for People with ADHD
Recommended“Dr MD Sasha hamdani she has ADHD herself and she wrote a book called self-care for people with ADHD”
No Stupid Questions
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Discussed“I'm familiar with the work; Better Angels of Our Nature, which I think preceded Enlightenment Now, right?”
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High Conflict
Discussed“the term was popularized by journalist Amanda Ripley in her 2021 book high conflict why we get trapped and how we get out”
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Stolen Focus
Discussed“I do feel kind of robbed, and one of the books that I started reading but I haven't gotten too far into it is called Stolen Focus. Have you heard about this book? It's by, I think, he's a journalist named Johann Hari?”
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Uncovering Your Path
Discussed“I think he has lots of other fancy titles, but I really, really appreciate the person, and he sent me his latest book to endorse, and this book is called Uncovering Your Path. I started reading it the way I honestly read most books that I'm asked to endorse, which is like trying to read it at the equivalent of”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Real Anthony Fauci
Discussed“We discussed everything from his position on vaccines and censorship to the claims he makes in his latest book, 'The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.'”
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Elon Musk
Discussed“and if you read you know read I read Elon Musk the auto the biography from last year this is what he does”
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The War on Warriors
Discussed“if you read his book War the war on Warriors would probably do”
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In the Arena
Discussed“In the arena book by Pete Hegseth.”
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Riot Diet
Recommended“well now he's out with a new book that tells it all it's called Riot diet great name one man's radical ride through America in chaos and in it Richie Shar has never before heard stories of America's unrest during the summer of 2020”
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The Strange Death of Europe
Recommended“We had the opportunity to have dinner with him a couple of nights ago, and seven years ago he wrote a book about the death of Europe, basically, and this was his warning.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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In the Heart of the Sea
Recommended“did you ever read was a book by Nathaniel filbrick it's called in the heart of the sea”
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Fingerprints of the gods
Discussed“Like when Graham Hancock says that there's a missing chapter of human history, like this is reality. We don't know how they built the Great Pyramid.”
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Bad childhood, good life
Discussed“Abigail shrier wrote a book about this about how many girls that are on the Spectrum get convinced that they're trans”
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In the belly of the beast
Discussed“it's called in the belly of the beast when I was in college and it's a series of letters that this inmate wrote to Norman maor it's a fascinating book and about what incarceration does to somebody from the standpoint of um the Practical day-to-day from the deep psychosis inducing confinement and everything else”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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A Certain Idea of America
Discussed“and her new book a certain idea of America she collects 80 of them published over the last eight years”
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The Great Illusion
Discussed“one of the books that I think is always a super interesting one to read was 1910 Norman Angel um wrote this book the great illusion”
Breaking Points
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William McKinley
Discussed“I mean he talked endlessly about President William McKinley right and this was like the model for him”
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Traitors
Discussed“it's like I should have Ryan's lennin book behind us but Clash Traders where Bill Clinton comes from”
Conversations with Tyler
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The First Circle
Discussed“it's not a traditional novel akin to war in peace or akin to other Russian novels such as the brothers katof were in the first Circle which we talked about here on the program uh previously”
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The road
Discussed“the road has short stories of Grossman it has his remarkable uh essay on trinka”
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Sakhalin Island
Recommended“and then he cites Cav's book about prison camp saken Island which is also a fantastic story”
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Polostan
Discussed“this is my second conversation with Neil Stevenson who needs no introduction but do let me tell you about Neil's new book poan which I read an advanced copy of”
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The Diamond Age
Discussed“let say the trimmer from Diamond age do you feel we have that now or soon with large language models they will teach you almost anything right”
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Winter in Moscow
Recommended“so there's a great book by Malcolm muggeridge called um I think it's called Moscow and winter which he wrote in the I think 1933”
EconTalk
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Recommended“If you read Armenian Sketchbook, which is a also a great short book to read by him. He just seems so much not a fanatic.”
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Altneuland
Discussed“but herz's very last Testament to the Jews the AL Noland his his utopian novel is the last thing he gives us before he dies the dramatic”
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A Savage War of Peace
Recommended“Alistar horn wrote uh this British historian wrote a magisterial history of the Algeria War a a Savage War for peace I believe it was called um I recommend it”
Huberman Lab
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Shift
Recommended“to learn more about Dr cross's work and to find links to his previous book chatter as well as his forthcoming book shift managing your emotions so they do not manage you please see the show show note captions”
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MIND PROFUNDITY Unlocking the Hidden Layers of the Mind (Edition1st)
Recommended“get the development of the unconscious mind also”
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The Obesogen Effect
Recommended“And you know, a lot of these chemicals, just to let you know, are obesogens; they increase obesity; there's a book out called Obesogens; you can read about them, and so you know it'll be very—there is some overlap so by reducing some of these chemicals that are in your food storage containers, you're also reducing obesogens, so it's not”
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Obesity
Recommended“there's a book out called obesogens you can read about them”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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All the single ladies
Recommended“and in fact there's a wonderful um book called all the single ladies that is about this very phenomenon”
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The Pill
Recommended“how the pill changes everything or this is your brain on birth control”
The Daily Stoic
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The Death of Socrates
Discussed“So I was reading Emily Wilson's book, The Case Against Socrates, which I thought was interesting because she famously has this biography of Seneca, and they're both pretty negative.”
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The Trial of Socrates
Discussed“It was interesting to read a kind of Steelman case against Socrates, which is what I felt she was doing there in Stone's book, The Trial of Socrates, or something like that.”
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The Year 1000
Discussed“and then you'll you know there's you know a lot of global history historians now would say well Valerie Hansen was the most popular um book recently well no actually a product you know around the time of the Vikings could theoretically travel from the Americas all the way around you know yeah the entire world”
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How to Build Stonehenge
Recommended“and there's there was a great book called How to build Stonehenge which came out two years ago which really got close to okay this is I think this is how we can get quite close to how sort of a bit of experimental archaeology a bit of sort of theory”
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Forgive Me Not
Discussed“It's like, like that one thing I loved about your book was how you gave examples of what I would call stoic fables, like literal descriptions of what it would be good to do.”
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A New Stoicism
Discussed“I mean I love Larry Becker's work and new stoicism, you know, that was new and convincing to people who never would, you know, some people just don't have a taste for ancient philosophy and that was convincing to a lot of philosophers who have never picked up something translated.”
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Discussed“and I think it was James Joyce like portrait of oh wow thanks it was a good experience”
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The Blood Of The Martyrs
Discussed“there's a a great line in the novel The Blood of the martyrs by Naomi mitcheson which is actually about Nero Rome and its persecution of the Christians she has senica's brother say we've spent our lives serving the kind of state no decent man ought to serve”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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We Who Wrestle with God
Discussed“We’re adapted to the social world, and that’s one of the avenues I explored in my book 'We Who Wrestle With God.'”
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The culture code
Discussed“Yes, yeah, I read something similar to what you're saying in terms of how to give proper feedback, and it was in a book called The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, and he talks about a three-step method.”
ChooseFI
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The House of God
Discussed“I remember reading this book early on before medical school it's called the house of God and essentially a fictional satire about this group of interns in a hospital”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Unaccountability Machine
Recommended“the second one is the unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies which is just a fantastic exploration of why when things go very wrong in our society”
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Recoding America
Recommended“Jennifer paa is the the founder of code for America and the author of one of the very best books on why government doesn't deliver recoding America”
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Voice and inequality
Recommended“the first is a classic by theeta Scotch called voice and inequality the transformation of American Civic democracy”
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Inequality and American Democracy
Recommended“the first is a classic by theeta Scotch called voice and inequality the transformation of American Civic democracy”
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Price and Rent Effects of Energy Efficiency in Residential Properties
Discussed“I've been thinking about something Hana rent wrote in the origins of totalitarianism another one of these books that when you begin quoting it you know things are not going great”
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Offshore
Recommended“Another kind of parallel book to read it's a very short book it's called offshore and it's by uh Brooke Harrington who is a sociologist who in order to write the book trained as a financial adviser and so entered that world and learned how it worked from the inside”
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American Kleptocracy
Recommended“and then as a third book uh to the trilogy I would say read American kleptocracy which is a book by Casey Michelle which talks about much more specifically American focused how Grand corruption is already visible and already at play in the United States”
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Invisible Rulers
Recommended“i you know i can recommend to everybody who's listening to Renee desta's excellent book which is called invisible rulers which is about exactly this”
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Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Recommended“John Judas and ruy tshira where have all the Democrats gone the soul of the party in the age of extremes 2023 making uh uh similar criticism of the the Captivity of the democratic party to what they call the shadow party of nonprofits and I I think Democratic leaders thinking about rebuilding the party ought to read the where”
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Mother Jones
Recommended“and my third book is about one of my heroes or heroins Mary Harris Jones Mother Jones as she was nicknamed uh who who lived from 1837 to 1930 great Irish American immigrant labor activist and the book is Elliot J Gorn from 2001 Elliot J Gorn Mother Jones the most dangerous woman in America”
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The real majority
Recommended“the second one is a book that was written in the early 1970s called the real majority by Richard scaman and Ben wattenberg this was a Nixon era book that really had been looking at what seemed like the changes in the electorate then among white working class voters moving into the Republican party”
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Shaping Our Nation
Recommended“the third book is one from 20 years ago called the new Americans by Michael Baron which um looks at the history of immigrant groups in the United States from the Italians to the Irish to uh the Jews and really finds analogues in sort of newer groups in the electorate”
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Player Piano
Recommended“uh with with vaget or maybe player piano you know you can't”
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Cat's Cradle
Recommended“boy you just can't go wrong cat's cradle you can't go wrong”
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Discussed“What does that tell us in his book the rise and fall of the neoliberal order the historian Gary gell introduced me to this concept of political orders these structures of political consensus that stretch over decades”
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The Affluent Society
Discussed“visually you have John Kenneth gallb one of the Great economists of the new dual era writing the affluent society which is all about the problems of the society where now there is much more plenty but what makes life worth living has been been eroded”
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
Recommended“a book that helped me a great deal is Tim Alberta's book The Kingdom the power and the glory American evangelicals in an age of extremism He took me into a world that I otherwise didn't have accessibility to and he helped me to understand a great deal that I did not”
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Underground Asia
Recommended“I found kind of an unconventional place to study this and read about it Tim Harper underground asia Global revolutionaries and the assault on Empire and this is a book about underground radicals in east and south Asia and Southeast Asia 1900 to 1925 looking to upend Empire looking to upend capitalism looking to free their countries from Colonial shackles”
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The Known Citizen
Recommended“and finally uh Sarah iigo the known citizen very different kind of book a history of privacy in modern America We're talking about morality We're talking about community and of course social media has put the question of privacy and what constitutes privacy and what's private and what's public such an urgent question in understanding America”
Freakonomics Radio
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Mom's Cancer
Discussed“I heard about a guy who published a web comic called mom's cancer I talked to the editor at a booth”
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Craft Weed
Discussed“he is the author of a book called craft Weed family farming and the future of the marijuana industry”
Timcast IRL
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Agamemnon
Discussed“and then she's uh murdered off stage in um escalus Agamemnon”
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The men who stare at goats
Discussed“So apparently, have you seen that movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats? I read the book a long time ago.”
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Area 51
Discussed“I always like to say this, too, when talking about aliens: Annie Jacobson wrote this crazy book where she interviewed a guy from Area 51, some high-up guy. He said back in the 50s or 60s, I think it was the 60s, our government was taking severely autistic children and mutating them to look like extraterrestrials to scare the Soviets.”
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
Discussed“Well, you know, there's a famous communist theorist, Antonio Gramsci; he's an Italian theorist, and in the Prison Notebooks, which is his great work that was translated actually by Joseph Buttigieg, so they're all—and Kamala is the daughter of a Marxist! So you're seeing them seep into the government!”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Road to Serfdom
Discussed“He also pointed out, and this is proven in Hayek's book 'The Road to Serfdom,' that any middle ground solution is unstable in terms of capitalism, meaning it tends towards socialism.”
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Monopoly and Competition (Intro to Free Market Econ Ser 1 Cassette/313)
Discussed“so in that context I remember that one of the people who worked on my team suggested I read an article by Murray Newton rothbart called Monopoly and competition I remember reading it like it was today and after reading it carefully I said everything I've T about Market structure in the last 20 years in courses on microeconomics is”
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Principles of economics
Discussed“and another book that was a very significant influence and impact on me was the principles of political economics by manger it was truly eye openening or let's say for reading Ogen F”
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Time and Money
Discussed“the only thing I had read about the Austrian school until then had been money and time a very good book by Garrison”
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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
Recommended“I had a vague idea about the Austrian School; the only thing I had read about the Austrian School until then had been 'Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles,' a very good book by Jesús Huerta de Soto.”
My First Million
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Entertaining
Discussed“and the first book was called entertaining and it was about like entertaining guest basically yeah and like creating an atmosphere of like warmth and things like that and it was a massive hit it sold 650,000 copies”
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Discussed“I asked me what my favorite book is and I started talking about poor Charlie's Almanac which is a great book uh that stripe just reprinted by the way I I told him that book is my favorite and it started telling him why and I told the story of the you know worldly wisdom and how I was living”
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The Art of Fear
Recommended“it says the function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that Soares and this is from a book called The Art of Fear”
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The Victory Lab
Recommended“And so, I invited on a guy named Sasha Eisenberg. He's studied this for a couple of decades now, and he wrote a book that I thought was really good called The Victory Lab.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Insomnia
Discussed“And Pat actually talks about this in his book, where he says this was a specific strategy hatched out of the Department of Defense by some of the neocons at the time to continue justifying the largest defense spending that we continue to be tied down with.”
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Congressional government
Discussed“Like they wanted congressional government. That was the That was the the the title of Woodrow Wilson's book. He wanted a system where essentially the agencies largely worked out of the Congress or associated with Congress”
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The crusader
Recommended“I want you reading this stuff; we're giving out Pat Buchanan's books.”
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Return of the Strong Gods
Recommended“I want you reading Whittaker Chambers. I want you reading ”
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Henry VI
Discussed“And as Shakespeare said in Henry VI, "If you want to destroy a society, the first thing you do is kill all the lawyers."”
Candace
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The Scofield Bible
Discussed“as if you are under some delusion that you think that this is okay acceptable if you believe that your scoffield Bible tells you that you're going to be blessed if you bless people”
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The Secret Team
Recommended“for starters uh is have you read the book The Secret team by Fletcher proudy oh I would recommend that book to everybody”
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Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
Discussed“some of you guys were very shocked to learn that the bther crisis where was he born was not a figment of racist imaginations but rather the result of Barack Obama's first book which was being promoted by his publisher with a bio that clearly stated that he was born in Kenya”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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A World Beyond
Discussed“she mailed me a book and she said Angela read and it was a sudden death that was unexpected I was still young I was 29 years old I was living with my sister we were heartbroken so my mother emailed me a book and she said read this book it will help you understand your father's death and I”
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Human Design
Discussed“there's a pro there's a book out called human design and the guy that wrote it said that even PE B children the Next Generation as they come out after us their brains will be different they will be more”
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Life After Google
Discussed“there's a guy um uh uh who who wrote This Book uh called life after Google very very interesting book”
Acquired
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Leading by Design
Discussed“and you read all of leading by Design right that's sort of the most canonical sort of autobiographical book”
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The IKEA Story
Discussed“the updated version of the book is called the Ikea Story the first edition of the book is titled leading by Design but it's the same book”
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Strategic Sourcing and Category Management
Recommended“There's a book called strategic Outsourcing and category management Lessons Learned at Ikea by Magnus Carlson and Magnus was a senior executive in Ikea supply chain for 25 years”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Het Achterhuis
Discussed“You start the book, you start Nexus with something you call, I think, I'm paraphrasing here, the naive view or naive theory of information.”
Modern Wisdom
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Stone's Rules
Discussed“robertson is one of these people that have published books on rules for it's called Stone's rules like his book and some of them are the opposite of what Socrates would say”
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Organon
Discussed“what was the organon organon that's one of parle's books isn't it yes yeah remember”
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On Clemency
Discussed“we have a couple of examples of those like we have on clemency for example which is this letter to nero that probably made public that kind of puts nero in something of a pedestal also tries to improve his character and teach him more clemency or mercy”
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On Anger
Discussed“senica has an entire book called on anger you know and it's we can easily compare all of that ancient philosophical literature to what some of the psychological research says today”
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Socrates in Love
Recommended“there's a really cool book that came out recently by Armand dangu a classicist um who wrote a book called Socrates and love that I really like that's kind of speculative biography of Socrates and he claims that soes was probably not as ugly as he's made out to be”
This Week in Startups
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The Forever War
Discussed“the other thing that comes to mind is the Forever War which is by um I had to look this up Joe halman uh which describes how humans will handle not just future conflicts but also future Interstellar conflicts”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Erewhon
Discussed“If you want to trace the genealogy there, you'd have to at least go back as far as Samuel Butler's Erewhon in 1872 or his essay before that. In 1863, he describes explicitly his vision of a machine life becoming ever more developed until eventually it’s autonomous.”
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The Fall of Hyperion
Discussed“When I was younger, one of the science fiction books that really impressed me was Dan Simmons' Hyperion, especially The Fall of Hyperion.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Emergency
Discussed“another example is in Neil St 's book called emergency I'll never forget this point”
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Arabian Sands
Recommended“then somebody said oh you need to read Arabian Sands by this man named feser and that gets into like the Arab bedu cultur is written in the 1940s or 50s”
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The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
Recommended“I think the best book I've seen on cold reading and it might be very hard to get now and it's a book written for magicians I have a load of sort of old pamphlets and strange old books on these things but there's one relatively modern for me at least so written in the last 20 years called the”
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Resonance
Recommended“There's a German sociologist called hartmut Rosa who's got a terrific book it's a it's not an easy read it's a beast of a thing called resonance have you come across this you come across resonance”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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A Little Life
Discussed“That could be good; I still have to finish A Little Life. That’s a hard one!”
Big Technology Podcast
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Filterworld
Discussed“I thought it was really interesting and he wrote a book called Filter World. The main argument, he's been on the show. I'll link it in the show notes.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Snowpiercer
Discussed“and then with AI helping us design these systems and understanding you know like there's all kinds of things in the atmospherics like we it scared me a little but I just got a a a pitch on um the thing that can control how much heat comes in from the sun which is you know there's a great dystopia”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Tis
Discussed“I read he he has one called 'Tis, that's his second, Frank McCourt. So, Angela's Ashes was his time in Ireland till he was 19, and then at 19 he moved to New York City in like the '50s, and he wrote another book called 'Tis, that's from the 1950s to like whenever, ”
Never Enough
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Scaling People
Recommended“I actually one of my favorite books, the reason why I just flipped up here is on my shelf, um Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson. She wrote this like awesome book and it's been republished by Stripe Press.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Livewired
Recommended“If you want to learn more about David Eagleman's ideas, I really enjoyed a couple of his mini books, like Livewired, which talks about his brain research, and Some 40 Tales from the Afterlives, his book of speculative fiction. So this is the point in the show where we take a listener question, and I welcome my producer, Morgan.”
The Book Review
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Karla's Choice
Discussed“he can tell us that himself because he's here on the podcast to discuss his novel Carla's Choice”
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A legacy of spies
Discussed“and then much later looking back when he wrote Legacy of spies which came out I think in 2017 he was suddenly horrified by Smiley's involvement in in the operation in home from the cold”
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The Secret Pilgrim
Discussed“I didn't actually go on to secret Pilgrim I skipped that because those are beautiful vignettes of Smiley's life”
StarTalk Radio
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Alien Oceans
Discussed“just just at the dawn of Co you had a book by that title that's right alien oceans”
SmartLess
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Fall of Giants
Recommended“There's also a book that goes along with it. The 'Giants' book is spectacular.”
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Sage Warrior
Recommended“So I even think about like what do I want to do, and there's this beautiful book called 'The Sage Warrior' by a woman named Valarie Kaur, who’s this incredible, she's a lawyer, she's an activist, she's a woman who just—she's a writer, she does all this incredible stuff, and she paired this book with this album of music that”
The Rubin Report
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The Joy of Hate
Discussed“Greg Gutfeld wrote a book called The Joy of hate it's like I don't I don't hate the”
