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Every book Andrew Doyle recommended on podcasts
Andrew Doyle appears on podcasts such as Modern Wisdom and The Joe Rogan Experience as a cultural commentator, satirist, and critic of modern ideologies, identity politics, and cancel culture. During these discussions, he recommends and examines various texts relating to free speech, social justice, and institutional conformity. Doyle recommends Sam Harris's Lying as a strong, concise moral case for why people should never lie. When discussing free speech and historical parallels, he mentions Aryeh Neier's Defending My Enemy regarding the ACLU defending neo-Nazi free speech rights, and he discusses Arthur Miller's play The Crucible to draw parallels between McCarthyism, the Salem witch trials, and modern social conformity. Addressing contemporary gender discourse and public institutions, Doyle discusses Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage and Hannah Barnes's Time to Think regarding pediatric gender clinics and adolescent referrals following the CASW review. He also addresses corporate and institutional compliance by mentioning Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility as an example of critical race theory in the workplace, alongside passing references to books by Ibram X. Kendi and Douglas Murray.
Books recommended by Andrew Doyle
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Lying
Lying by Sam Harris is a concise essay and book that argues for absolute honesty and examines the destructive nature of even small white lies.
Recommended“know anyone who wants to read a very good short book online sam harris is like one how can one Iomega and it is a one our justification for why you should never lie yeah and it's absolutely great”
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A Game of Thrones
George R.
Critiqued“I did a review of Game of Thrones by series by series where they judged each episode as good or bad on the percentage points of how much female characters speak”
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Antiracist Baby
Discussed“you know he's just done one called anti-racist baby i don't know if you saw that as a scene it's gone out”
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Defending My Enemy
Defending My Enemy by Aryeh Neier is a compelling historical account written by the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union regarding the organization's controversial legal defense of free speech rights for neo-Nazis marching in Skokie, Illinois.
Discussed“There was a book by a guy called Aya Nia who was the head of the ACLU called Defending Miami.”
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Dominion
Tom Holland's Dominion is a comprehensive historical exploration tracing how Christianity shaped Western secular values, individual dignity, and notions of equality.
Discussed“Tom Holland wrote is a historian he wrote a book recently called Dominion”
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Critiqued“so one of the big selling books was good night stories for rebel girls”
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Discussed“I mean but this is this is you scraping the surfaces so one of the big selling books was good night stories for rebel girls which like each chapters about a major feminist icon that's aimed at young kids”
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X.
Critiqued“i you know he's just done one called anti-racist baby I don't know if you saw that as a scene it's gone out”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Discussed“or or how to be an how to be anti-racist by abraham max kennedy”
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a nonfiction book that investigates the sudden, sharp rise in teenage girls identifying as transgender, framing the phenomenon largely through the lens of social contagion and peer influence.
Discussed“I mean there was a a lawyer for the ACLU tweeting about how he wanted Abigail Shrier's book banned and he said this is the hill I will die on.”
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Once upon a time in ... Hollywood
Discussed“so like you saw that with Tarantino with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
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The Crucible
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a classic theatrical drama that dramatizes the Salem witch trials of 1692 while serving as an allegorical critique of McCarthyism and political persecution in 1950s America.
Discussed“the um arthur miller when he wrote the crucible which is his dramatization of the witch trials in salem it was written in the early 50s i think 1952 1953 uh he wrote that because of mccarthyism”
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a prominent popular science book that presents a rigorous critique of religious belief and the existence of God.
Discussed“and and Richard Dawkins address that point in his book The God Delusion”
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray is a cultural commentary that examines contemporary social justice movements, identity politics, and the rapid shifts in modern public discourse surrounding gender, sexuality, and race.
Discussed“That's what i want to learn from douglas murray I don't want him to write [ __ ] madness of crowds Like you know wonderful book”
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Time to Think
Discussed“So this is the other this is the other reason [clears throat] why I think the movement is essentially anti-gay because you know the Tavveristo pediatric pediatric clinic in London which was an NHS gender clinic which has been closed as a result of the CAST review this report into pediatric gender care they found uh um there's a book”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Discussed“when the bbc for instance um and sainsbury's as of this week um telling their employees to read white fragility by robin d'angelo which is a book which is uh i suppose the most popular example of of critical race theory that we have at the moment”
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Books Andrew Doyle wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2448 - Andrew Doyle | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2026-02-04 | 3 |
| Is Social Justice A Religion? - Andrew Doyle - #522 | Modern Wisdom | 2022-09-05 | 1 |
| I'm Not Exaggerating The Problem - Andrew Doyle - #232 | Modern Wisdom | 2020-10-15 | 5 |
| #1423 - Andrew Doyle | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2020-02-05 | 6 |
| Who Is Titania McGrath? - Andrew Doyle - #097 | Modern Wisdom | 2019-08-26 | 1 |
Other mentions (10: passing, ad reads, own books)
“well you know i've written a book now about it i'm i'm i i think we need to stop tolerating it i think we need to laugh it out of existence”
“or they've you know i mean you just have to read 1984 to understand how how that's working”
“They've been all in um in the archipelago there's an example of this uh where solzhenitsyn talks about”
“or when like when they put trigger warnings on major works of literature and in universities like um the old man in the sea the hemingway book which had a trigger warning that said warned about that this book contains scenes of graphic fishing”
“and if they want to read my new book it's called the new puritans and that is kind of my last word on the culture war base i mean i've basically said everything i've got to say about it i can't draw a line underneath that with it within that book so i think that would be the way to”
“because she's named after the queen of the fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream”
“which like each chapters about a major feminist icon that's aimed at young kids there's one called see is for consent that's aimed at very young kids”
“so like I thought so I've written a book as titania and she's trying to it's called my first little book of intersectional activism right because she can't get it”
“it's called my first little book of intersectional activism”
“the book was um the book came out in March walk link will be in the show notes below yeah please buy that gen reason I'm here”