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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2025
In April 2025, discussions centered heavily on family structures, societal trends, and historical transformations. On Modern Wisdom, host and guest Brad Wilcox examined relationships and parenting through multiple texts. Wilcox discussed arguments from his own book, Get Married, addressing the soulmate myth, and critiqued Richard V. Reeves's Of Boys and Men regarding fatherhood models. The episode also touched upon Liz Gilbert's popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Judith Rich Harris's The Nurture Assumption concerning genetic influences versus parenting, and Melissa S. Kearney's The Two-Parent Privilege, noting the public controversy surrounding its findings on family structure. Shifting toward historical and civilizational analysis, The Ezra Klein Show featured Ross Douthat reflecting on the concept of social stagnation from his book The Decadent Society. Additionally, Ezra Klein noted his recent reading of Ada Palmer's work on inventing the Renaissance. Together, these conversations reflected a shared focus among podcasters on evaluating cultural institutions, gender dynamics, and long-term societal progress.
Modern Wisdom
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Hegel, Love and Forgiveness
Discussed“What do you think about the story of the book Eat, Pray, Love? You know, Liz Gilbert's book obviously got a lot of attention, a lot of popularity among women especially.”
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Get Married
Discussed“And so, the point I make about this story in my own book is that we have a kind of the soulmate myth out there.”
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The Nurture Assumption
Discussed“Yeah, I mean I think you know on the twin study issue there's certainly some you know Judith Harris for instance is famous writing this book kind of arguing that you know because of genetics there's not much that parents can do to really influence the lives of their kids.”
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The Two-Parent Privilege
Discussed“Well, we saw this with Melissa Carney's book, the the two parents advantage, two parent privilege. And um before it even came out, Melissa Carney is as sort of policy wonk DC, probably center left, I would imagine, a lovely lady, softly spoken, very well researched, and writes this book saying, "Look, there is kind of the freest advantage that”
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Of Boys and Men
Discussed“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”
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Men
Discussed“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”
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Phillips Brooks
Discussed“I have a book every two or three years that comes out, a new one that's coming out in a year called The Meaning of Your Life. How to find deep purpose in an age of emptiness.”
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Next Generation HALT and HASS
Discussed“But if marginalized groups aren't doing well, it's it's something wrong with society. And, you know, it's interesting sort of if you break this down politically, there's a really interesting book that just came out uh called Outraged by the psychologist Kirk Gray.”
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Troubled
Discussed“Uh Rob K. Henderson on Twitter. Uh you can buy my book. It's out in paperback. Troubled by Rob Henderson.”
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The Three-Body Problem
Discussed“Before you know it, you're reading the threebody problem. Um, yes, that's a great book.”
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The Future Of Buddhism
Discussed“It's the same way that the samurai or the stoics or or uh the debent book of living and dying over death. You just go through the thing and then you're like because what we're avoiding is the emotional experience.”
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A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England
Discussed“There's a a cool lesson uh about had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with and then he wrote another book about uh like the history of alcohol and um he basically described alcohol as kind of the perfect drug for the human”
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The Heart is a Quarter Pounder
Discussed“but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating mind”
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Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
Discussed“and the book is the book is called I should say bird sex and Beauty The Strain the the the um oh what did I what's the subtitle the the implications of Charles Darwin strangest idea”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Decadent Society
Discussed“So I you know I wrote a lot about the concept of decadence, right? this idea that you know the west the developed world was sort of stuck in these kind of cycles and needed to break out somehow but the reality is you often can't break out of decadence without you know a big big mess so maybe Trump”
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Inventing the Renaissance
Discussed“I've been reading about the Renaissance recently. Um Ada Palmer's great book on inventing the Renaissance.”
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Modern Trial Advocacy
Discussed“Uh the first one is a book called from about 20 years ago by a physicist named Steven Bar called ancient physics and modern faith. Uh that is I think despite being a little bit dated is still really the best overall survey of sort of where arguments in modern physics that relate to religion stand and how a reasonable”
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Mind and Cosmos
Discussed“Um but a book by called Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel who's a famous philosopher not religious but arguing for the fundamental limits and problems with a materialist framework on the world and it is a very short book which is why I don't hesitate to recommend it.”
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The Burning
Discussed“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma last fall and I got a book called The Burning by Tim Madigan about the Tulsa race massacre which was very eye opening and astonishing that I did not learn that in history.”
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Erasing History
Discussed“And then Jason Stanley's erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future, which is very preient uh in terms of what the Trump administration is trying to do to universities right now.”
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Recent History of Shipbuilders Local 18, I.U.M.S.W.A.,AFL-CIO and how to Save It!
Discussed“Okay. Well, I just read it's it's been out for a while, but I just read and had a discussion Zack Carter's uh the price of peace uh which is about John Mayer Kanes and his his role in in the world and then beyond. Fantastic book.”
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How Not to Invest
Discussed“Um the uh my friend the uh uh uh fund manager Barry Rith Holtz has a great book called How Not to Invest, which believe it or not is is interesting. Even if you aren't in investing, he's just he's just uh really a lot of fun.”
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How the War Was Won
Discussed“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”
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British and American Naval Power
Discussed“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Discussed“There's a thing called Swedish death cleaning. I produced a show about it which is all about that. Swedish death cleaning. the gentle art of Swedish death cleaning, which is the Swedes believe one of the things that you can do for your family is you can clear out your stuff before you die.”
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Give Yourself Goosebumps Boxed Set
Discussed“That and the Goosebumps books. [ __ ] off. [ __ ] off. No more RL Stein.”
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And Still I Rise
Discussed“And Still I Rise, Still Still I Rise was a moment in culture history.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Daughter of Time
Discussed“Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys. It wasn't Richard III. was a very big book uh bestseller in fact”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle uh called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested uh she's a historian and a screenwriter obviously a Ricardian and she was like I want to figure out what happened to this body that's still the mystery”
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The Practice
Discussed“If you want to know anything else about Adidas and Puma, we'll just go start reading up more. There's actually a book by a woman named Barbara Schmidt called Sneaker Wars, appropriately um all about the rift between Adidas and Puma. So, if you want to know more about it, that's a pretty good place to start.”
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Airport
Discussed“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”
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Hotel
Discussed“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”
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A Spy Among Friends
Discussed“But uh Dave also wanted us to shout out and we want to shout out a book by Ben McIntyre, A Spy Among Friends, Colon Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.”
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Happiness
Discussed“Uh there was another guy we talked about the nudge earlier uh in 2008. Another Nobel economist named Richard Thawer co-wrote a bestseller called nudge colon improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness. And in that book he talked about um social priming experiences uh benign paternalism or that nudge that you know you kind of mentioned earlier toward making”
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Crooked House
Discussed“I have one more question. Um, have you seen the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Crooked House that came out in 2017? No.”
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Death on the Nile
Discussed“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”
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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Discussed“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”
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Curtain
Discussed“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”
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Sleeping Murder
Discussed“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”
Breaking Points
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The Canceling of the American Mind
Discussed“First of all, you are the author of several books and more recently this one. Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind. But more recently, uh you know, you might look at that and be like, "Oh, this is a right-wing guest or something."”
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The American Wine Society Basic Guide to Pruning
Discussed“In Greg, you didn't just write cancelling of the American mind. That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”
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Generation Kill
Discussed“I mean that changed a lot of people's minds or that book generation kill having the guy literally in the front Humvey and people were like this is a cluster [ __ ]”
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Neoconservatism
Discussed“This is a guy who again when he was in his what mid20s wrote neoconservatism and why we need it in ' 06 when the Iraq war was a disaster has since written books about migration about wokeness and now about whatever his latest in defense of the west book is.”
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Band Of Brothers
Discussed“That's like reading Band of Brothers for the first time about World War II.”
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Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust
Discussed“He's author of a number of books including the origins of woke and also has his own Substack.”
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There Is No Place for Us
Discussed“And then we've have um Brian Goldstone on. He's written written a really important Roen... Um written a really important new book about, you know, we talk so much about the working poor. He digs into the working homeless, which is increasingly a reality, people who are doing everything they can, working full-time, but because housing and rent is so”
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The First Forty Days
Discussed“By reading books such as the first 40 days, I learned this is not normal in the rest of the world.”
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Bringing Up Bébé
Discussed“It's called Bringing Up Bay. One American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting.”
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The Self-driven Child
Discussed“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Discussed“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”
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Too Big to Fail
Discussed“He wrote Too Big to Fail.”
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No Logo
Discussed“uh is none other than uh Naomi Klene who relevant to this uh this conversation is the author of uh many uh books but in particular no logo published in 1999 which kind of drew inspiration from and also provided inspiration to uh the burgeoning anti-globalization movement at the time.”
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Discussed“I do recommend if anybody ever wants to, you should read uh Ezra Vogle has a biography of Deng Xiaoping and Deng specifically was purged and was one of these people who was purged and actually sent to go work in a factory and his period during the cultural revolution and the great leap forward.”
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The 1619 Project
Discussed“Well, I think that if you're going to teach it in such a way, uh, like the 1619 project did, which was also funded and then used at some of these elite universities to say America is irrevocably racist, then what are we all doing here?”
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Den of Thieves
Discussed“Anyway uh den of thieves great book recommendation if you've never read it uh the movie Wall Street was uh based on some of the characters that were in there iosi and Michael I Michael milin is one of the most notorious white collar criminals literally of all time”
StarTalk Radio
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Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition
Discussed“Harold and the purple crayon cuz he went Harold went into the sky with his purple crayon.”
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Ideas And Opinions
Discussed“No, if you read his uh ideas and opinions, it's a book, right?”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Old Testament Use of Old Testament
Discussed“Here's what's crazy. It's not the devil because there actually wasn't originally a devil with a capital D in the Old Testament. See, the word Satan originates from the Hebrew Hebrew word. Then he writes it out like with all the accents on it. Looks like Satan to me, which means ad adversary or accuser.”
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Isaiah
Discussed“Jewish people had I I just assumed there was some sort of in there when translating Isaiah 14:12 in the Old Testament which refers to an old canonite myth about the planet Venus the morning star to describe the fall of the king of Babylon.”
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Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Biblical Archaeology ...
Discussed“anyway, oh, speaking of that, I had a great [ __ ] conversation with somebody that was explain to me the book of Job, not Job. It's not get a [ __ ] job. It's get a job. And it's the book of Job. And I'm listening to this this this story. And the story of Job is basically Job”
Huberman Lab
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Disease Concept of Alcoholism
Discussed“Emelick, he was at at Stanford for a bit, the end of his career. and he had done a lot of research on alcoholism and I wrote a book in the ' 50s or 60s called the disease concept of alcoholism and out of that book there was a curve and you can look this up it's called the gel”
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Eat Fat Get Thin
Discussed“And I wrote a book called Eat Fat Get Thin where I cataloged the whole history of how we got there and what the problems were and what the science is telling us about what we should be eating about the reconsidering saturated fat being bad.”
Speaker How to Improve Your Vitality & Heal From Disease | Dr. Mark Hyman 2025-04-14 Listen at 36:53 -
Biochemical Individuality
Discussed“He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”
Speaker How to Improve Your Vitality & Heal From Disease | Dr. Mark Hyman 2025-04-14 Listen at 57:30 -
Nutrition Against Disease
Discussed“he gave me a book called nutrition against disease by Roger Williams and it was this is like in 1980 and I read it I was like oh wow this is nutrition is such an important thing.”
Speaker How to Improve Your Vitality & Heal From Disease | Dr. Mark Hyman 2025-04-14 Listen at 57:39 -
Vive joven, crece en plenitud
Discussed“I started to go down that rabbit hole and I wrote a book called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, our communities, uh, our economy, our communities, and our planet one bite at a time where I mapped out from field to fork the problems with our food industry, how it's making us sick, how it's costing us trillions”
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Our Stolen Future
Discussed“And there's a whole book on this that I read like almost 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future by Theo Coburn which lays out it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water”
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Silent Spring
Discussed“it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water and our air and they affect fertility rates.”
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High Fidelity
Discussed“There's a great line in that movie High Fidelity based on the Nick Hornby novel, which I also highly recommend where he's like, you know, people tell me that we should listen to our gut.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Louder Than Words
Discussed“I did it at you know for 10 years every every February the guy that uh Brian Hall who encouraged me to write my one of my books called Louderder Than Words invited me to go to Harvard and I I'll never forget I had a a complete Harvard class.”
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Be Exceptional
Discussed“And so I tried to focus on those people that I met which gave me the examples for uh be exceptional.”
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Dangerous Personalities
Discussed“And that's why I wrote be the um dangerous personalities because um I have uh these robust checklists in there which have been tested many times.”
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Why Trust Science?
Discussed“Much later I read um I was reading a book by uh Naomi Orescus the historian of science and she wrote a book called Why Trust Science? And it's a wonderful book. But in the book she talks about she gives examples of places of phenomena where the public didn't trust science and they should have and this is one”
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Philosophy as a Way of Life
Discussed“And I'm just reading for the second time this book. It's called Open Socrates. Okay. And it's a really wonderful book and I've learned a lot about Socratic philosophy that I didn't know.”
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Discussed“And I was reading that book, The Courage to be Disliked over Christmas. And it kind of it changed my view on this quite profoundly and in an important way because it helped me to understand. And I think it basically says that what happens to us doesn't create who we are. We use what happened to us and we”
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Where the Buffalos Roam
Discussed“yeah that may be in the beat the odds um I thought it was in this book”
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Captivate
Discussed“Like you have the most wonderful bookshelf of cues and captivate up there, right? Like my books, which I love.”
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Cues
Discussed“Like you have the most wonderful bookshelf of cues and captivate up there, right? Like my books, which I love.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Nightingale's Song
Discussed“And my grandfather, who is very important to me, um he he was a paratrooper, but I became obsessed with the Marine Corps. and he had me read two books. The night and gale song. Yeah. About amazing book. It's amazing book. I read I still go and read it every couple years. It's honestly and the and the he”
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The Soul of Prosperity
Discussed“And then he had me read Fields of Fire by Jim Webb. Oh my gosh. And Jim Webb is one of my personal Those are both Vietnam books.”
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Last Call for Bud Light
Discussed“And I write about this in my book, Last Call for Bud Light.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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An Abundance of Caution
Discussed“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”
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The story of David
Discussed“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”
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Silent Invasion
Discussed“Well, Deborah Bergs kind of admits that, doesn't she, in her book? I she one thing she does admit, she sort of touches on that. One thing she does admit is that the 15 days she never had an intention of of stopping there.”
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Abundance
Discussed“Again, it's called An Abundance of Caution with the yellow tape. It's actually quite well done by David Swag.”
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America
Discussed“And while I have your attention, Joseph Massie, who was on promoting his poetry book, America is the poem, has now risen not only well past Maria Shrivever on the number one under poetry, but his book went up to number 18 in all books in America on Amazon.”
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Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter
Discussed“She's doing very well, but she wrote a book called Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter and talk about her mother was just o totally overbearing and definitely had some mental issues.”
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The Cookie Baking Gnome Notebook
Discussed“You know, she that thing she put in her book about shooting dogs, her her dog. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she put that in her first book, uh, which came out a few years ago, but the editors there took it out. They said, "What is wrong with you? We're not putting that in your book about shooting dogs." But what”
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Tucker
Discussed“This um Chadwick Moore, who he's been on the program, he wrote a biography on Tucker.”
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It Takes a Family
Discussed“reportedly he read Rick santorum's book on the manufacturing crisis and what we did to our own before he ran for president”
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Uncharted
Discussed“and then thereafter I'm trying oh the name of the book Uncharted Uncharted by um some guy named Whipple last name Whipple Chris Whipple”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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I Am a Big Helper!
Discussed“He wrote a book called the case against reality that the universe that we see is not real. It's a projection.”
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Awakening
Discussed“If someone's really interested in self-realization, they're really fascinated by the conversation you're having. My next book. It's called Awakening. The path to freedom and enlightenment.”
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Q&A a Day for Enlightenment
Discussed“If someone's really interested in self-realization, they're really fascinated by the conversation you're having. My next book. It's called Awakening. The path to freedom and enlightenment.”
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Signs
Discussed“I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Lynn Jackson who wrote the book Signs. Yeah. And I love that book. For anyone who loves learning about signs, loves knowing about signs, that that book is speaking so closely to I don't know if you've ever seen it or ever met Laura Lynn, but she speaks so beautifully about how all”
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Human Nature and the Social Order
Discussed“so there's this beautiful piece of wisdom that I always share from Charles Horton Culie and he wrote this in 1890 I think it was which just shows how true this has been for such a long time and obviously long before that as well and he said The challenge today is I'm not what I think I am. I'm”
ChooseFI
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The Simple Path to Wealth (Revised & Expanded Edition)
Discussed“and you I would hate for somebody to have read the simple path to wealth or worse have heard about the simple path to wealth, throw everything in VTSAX in their retirement accounts, set it and forget it and never look at it again.”
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Financial Independence
Discussed“And you are the lead author on Chooseify, your blueprint to financial independence, the book, which is absolutely marvelous.”
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Your Money or Your Life
Discussed“Many of you have read her book, Your Money or Your Life. But even if you haven't, you know about this book. It's changed the way so many people think about work and money.”
Speaker 541 | Getting Personal with Personal Finance: Vicki Robin & Ginger 2025-04-06 Listen at 0:05 -
Die with Zero
Discussed“Largely in the fire community, what I've noticed is there's a book called Die with Zero. I think that's very popular. And I looked at that book and he said, "Oh, don't worry about saving. Have all your experiences when you're young and healthy and just get an annuity. That'll be fine."”
Speaker 541 | Getting Personal with Personal Finance: Vicki Robin & Ginger 2025-04-06 Listen at 4:38
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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This Is Water
Discussed“It reminds me a little bit of the old David Foster Wallace quote where a fish goes up to the other fish and is like, uh, it's crazy. We're swimming around in water and the fish says, "What's water?"”
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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
Discussed“We talked to his son for the book. We did. We talked to his son uh when we were researching researching a book named in a burst of creativity stuff they don't want you to know the book that's because we had the title for the show earlier anyway so uh so this is this is the parable or the”
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The Prime Minister was a Spy
Discussed“This is a real pitch made by a British author named Anthony Gray in his book uh they published in 1983. named in a burst of creativity, the prime minister was a spy.”
Speaker What happened to Harold Holt? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2025-04-16 Listen at 41:27 -
Choker
Discussed“Maggie mentioned that book that you're always referencing Ben and I'm totally losing the name by Elizabeth Woods playing dead a million%”
Speaker What happened to Harold Holt? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2025-04-16 Listen at 43:34 -
The Afghanistan Papers
Discussed“Back in 2019, uh Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post published At War with the Truth, and the world said, "Uh, what?"”
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The Kite Runner
Discussed“...somebody would fly on a plane and they would read the kiterunner or something while they were on the plane and they would hop out and think that they understood everything about this place that has been a battleground for centuries and centuries.”
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I Heard You Paint Houses
Discussed“It's based on a book right by this guy named Charles Brandt, right? It's called what is it? I heard you paint houses. This book purports to be non-fiction. It includes interviews and alleged confessions made to the author Charles Brandt uh by a former mafia hitman named Frank Sheiran.”
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Oblivion
Discussed“So fast forward in 1996, a book comes out called Oblivion, and it cites a CIA operative as its source who claims that Richard Cox did work in the intelligence field in Europe during the Cold War. And it says he lived there until the 1990s before dying of cancer in Maryland.”
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Playing Dead
Discussed“Years ago, I interviewed this woman, Elizabeth Greenwood, and she wrote a book about faking your own death cuz she was like, 'I need to know if this is possible.' We we did. We talked to her as well, didn't we, Matt? What was the book called? Oh, Ben's a big fan of it. I think it's called Playing Dead.”
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Second Nature
Discussed“Uh you can look up the lawyer who became DuPont's worst nightmare. That is a book by Nathaniel Rich about this gentleman we're talking to.”
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Northern Exposures
Discussed“Well, I I I have also recently published a book called Exposure, which I try to go into more detail about the discovery of this chemical and how it was we came to find out it even existed and what documents we saw this in and how how I really started to understand what was going on here.”
Timcast IRL
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The Law of Self Defense, 3rd Edition
Discussed“I'm an attorney and a member of the Supreme Court Bar whose expertise is use of force law. I have a wonderful book I give away for free. How to be hard to convict if you're ever compelled to defend yourself, your family, or your property. Get this for free at lawofselfdefense.com/tim.”
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The Marquis de Sade
Discussed“This has been around forever. Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”
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Justine
Discussed“Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”
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Unhumans
Discussed“Uh, shout out the book Unhumans: Secret History of Communist Revolutions: How to Crush Them. uh that book it's been going strong for uh almost a year at this point because unfortunately we are living inside.”
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The Autobiography of Mr. James Dawson
Discussed“It's it's so uh some parents in Illinois called the police on a teacher who gave the kids a book called This Book Is Gay.”
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Antifa
Discussed“I read the Antifa handbook. Have you read it?”
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Watchmen
Discussed“You know what's really sad is um uh for Watchmen, Alan Moore wanted to use the DC characters and they wouldn't let him.”
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American Splendor
Discussed“my mentor Harvey Pekar rested. God Restless His Soul from American Splendor. He went on a book tour...”
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Dianetics
Discussed“When I gave you Dianetics, it was a joke. You weren't supposed to read.”
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Attack on Titan Sampler
Discussed“You should watch Attack on Titan.”
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Death Note, Vol. 4
Discussed“You should uh you'd like the first half of Death Note.”
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Ego & Hubris
Discussed“It's called Ego and Hubris.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Moneyland
Discussed“It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.”
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Iron Curtain
Discussed“Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote”
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Twilight of Democracy
Discussed“It's actually now out of power, but we did have it for several years. Um I saw it happen in Hungary, which is a country that I spent a lot of time in at one point. One of my books is partly about Hungary. I saw a version of it in Russia um 20 years uh earlier as well.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Relentless
Discussed“Luis Miranda recently published a memoir about his work in politics and beyond. It's called Relentless.”
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Theater Kid
Discussed“Seller is also about to publish a memoir called Theater Kid.”
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Beyond Broadway
Discussed“That is Stacy Wolf. She's the author of a book called Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America and she teaches theater and American studies at Princeton.”
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Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre
Discussed“That is Stacy Wolf. She's the author of a book called Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America and she teaches theater and American studies at Princeton.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Homestead Tsunami
Discussed“Uh the latest one was Homestead Tsunami which is a description of well the dawning interest in homesteading as a uh potential choice of life let's say.”
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Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal
Discussed“Um he's also written everything I want to do is illegal which I love as a title.”
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You Can Farm
Discussed“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”
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Pastured Poultry Profit$
Discussed“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”
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Grass Productivity
Discussed“And because he'd already gotten on to this this moving animals around some Andre Voyini was a Frenchman who who wrote grass productivity, kind of still the Bible of of rotational or controlled grazing.”
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Democracy in America
Discussed“That's very tovillian. The the Alexis detoville when he wrote democracy in in America he said well this is what is going to make America great in in the 1830s is well and America's got that right with its 51 state or 50 state experiments.”
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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
Discussed“There are two Talmuds. The main one is the Babylonian Talmud, two and a half million words.”
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Phaedo
Discussed“Then just like Plato starts, you know, in a dialogue called the Lockis, Socrates runs into a couple guys.”
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Discussed“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”
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Modern Classics Civilization and Its Discontent
Discussed“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”
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The Assembly of Women
Discussed“But more important is Aristophanes play Assembly Women in which the women take over and establish a communist society.”
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Two photographers: Robert Capa centennial - Gerda Taro retrospective
Discussed“I knew this quote before I found this out cuz I read Foust one and two and there's a line in there Mephostophles.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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True Identity: The Bible for Women (NIV)
Discussed“well, these [ __ ] is trying to bring up the Bible. It's like, get the [ __ ] out of here, dude. Harry Potter's better than the Bible.”
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Almost Interesting
Discussed“He tells the story in his book and I apologize to him. He goes, 'Oh, don't worry. It's a good story.'”
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Provoked
Discussed“And you know, my uh um uh Scott Horton, who I always try to promote on here, he just wrote this book called Provoked. I think it's the best book that's been written on the uh history leading up to uh um the the war between is basically takes you from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to the”
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The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition
Discussed“I read about the China diet. And so you start believing that, but that's not really true.”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Believe
Discussed“His latest book, which we talk about today, is called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.”
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After
Discussed“I recommend a book called uh after by a doctor named Bruce Grayson, which is there have been a lot of surveys of the literature on this going back.”
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Prepare the Way of the Lord
Discussed“And it was the uh Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural uh sort of organizations.”
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Salt Sugar Fat
Discussed“Michael Moss wrote a book about this called Salt, Sugar, and Fatty. interviewed 300 different food industry executives and scientists and whistleblowers.”
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The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet Cookbook
Discussed“And I wrote a book about it called the 10day detox diet. And and I created an online program.”
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Brain Train
Discussed“You got Chris Palmer who wrote a book called Brain Energy talking about how he cured schizophrenics by changing their diet and bipolar disease.”
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Desolation Angels
Discussed“Um, it wasn't one book, but it was Jack Carowak as an author, maybe Desolation Angels, which really kind of set me out on this path of being on the wild adventure and having a kind of crazy wisdom way of living that's sort of not on the beaten path.”
Pod Save America
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When We're in Charge
Discussed“The next book from Crooked Media Reads is coming soon. It's called WinW We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership by our pal Amanda Litman. She's been on the pod many times. Uh it's out May 13th. Amanda's co-founder of Run for Something. Uh she's helped launch the political careers of hundreds of millennials and Gen Zers. Uh”
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Who Is Government?
Discussed“Michael's most recent book, Who is Government? Showcases the thankless, unglamorous work of doctors and engineers and civil servants inside the government at a time when the government is under attack.”
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On Tyranny
Discussed“And what happens is, you know, it's the equivalent of what is that Timothy Snyder line about uh the guy who wrote on tyranny, anticipatory obedience.”
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The Wisdom of Crowds
Discussed“James has written for uh about economics for Outlets like Fast Company the Atlantic the New Yorker and is the author of the book The Wisdom of crowds”
The Daily Stoic
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A Whole New Mind
Discussed“Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in retrospect, I took this the talks way too seriously, if that makes sense.”
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Quit
Discussed“And Annie Duke has a good book about quitting, you know, and and I do think that that in some ways powering through, sticking with it is is slightly overrated, but you know, it's it's this is this is what adult life is about.”
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Boys Among Men
Discussed“I read this interesting book a couple years ago called Boys Among Men, which is about the generation, which now you can't do, generation of NBA basketball players that went straight from high school because now you have to.”
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Andy Warhol
Discussed“Like I really recommend uh Blake Gopnik's massive biography of Andy Warhol.”
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Goldenrod
Discussed“And I put it away and I trust future me to know what to do with it and future me might know what to do with it in a month or it might be nine years later that suddenly I mean I think I just finished a poem for and that was in my last book um Golden Rod from”
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Good Bones
Discussed“I'm sure you're sick of talking about it, but I do want to talk about Good Bones a little bit because I'm not sick of talking about it.”
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Discussed“And so, for me, I knew that the first sentence of my memoir would have something in it that would say this is not a tell- all, right?”
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Memoirs of ... Mrs. S. Huntington
Discussed“Also, like uh Susan Strait, the novelist, who is uh my professor in college, she talks about this in her memoir.”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Overcoming Overeating
Discussed“I saw another therapist in college who who I spoke to about that restrictive and binging pattern. who who gave me like this really good book overcoming overeating because I now had turned into it had gone from like anorexia like starving yourself to now binge eating. And because obviously those two almost come together sometimes you can't spin this”
Behind the Bastards
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The Age of Magical Overthinking
Discussed“I have another podcast called Magical Overthinkers and I got a bunch of books. Cultish, The Age of Magical Overthinking.”
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Hugenberg's economic program
Discussed“Uh so his first while he's in co college effectively he gets you know he he does his like dissertation right which is his first booklength publication like these are effectively books and his first dissertation is titled internal colonization in northwest Germany which he fetishes at the university of Strasburg in 1891.”
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Alfred Hugenberg
Discussed“Uh in his book on Hugenberg John Leopold writes quote the young doctoral candidate analyzed in detail the role of the state in fostering economic growth.”
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Defeating Autism
Discussed“Feeding into this complex churn is the fact that as the term autism grows to Encompass more people it loses what author and Doctor Michael Fitzpatrick describes as a sense of coherence Michael wrote a great book about the biomedical movement titled defeating autism a damaging delusion and in it he writes”
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Toxic Childhood
Discussed“So these experts are not mostly doctors though and in fact among the most influential of them is former school teacher Sue Palmer author of the book toxic childhood published in 2006”
How I Write
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A Pattern Language
Discussed“So, that's a book by Christopher Alexander in uh 1978. And basically it's him trying to map the universal patterns across all of architecture. So he has 253 patterns.”
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Pride and Prejudice
Discussed“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”
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Sense & Sensibility
Discussed“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”
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Sense and Sensibility
Discussed“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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1948
Discussed“as Norm Finkelstein called out Benny Morris for writing in his book, "1948," which is a great book.”
The Rubin Report
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All the Demons Are Here
Discussed“It sort of reminds me of the ridiculous right now whereas I'm sure you know about a month ago Jake Tapper announced he has a book about the scandal around Biden's health.”
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Don't Burn This Book
Discussed“I mean, I always say to people, look, I wrote a book, uh, it was the best pro, it might be the bestselling book in American history about defending classical liberalism.”
a16z Podcast
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
Discussed“What book should every defensebased founder read? 100red-year marathon by Michael Pillsbury.”
