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Every book Andrew Doyle recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Andrew Doyle appears on, in one place — not just one.
Andrew Doyle discussed and recommended several books across multiple podcast appearances, including Modern Wisdom, The Joe Rogan Experience, and The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. On Modern Wisdom, he recommended Sam Harris's Lying, describing it as a very good short book and a one-hour justification for why people should never lie. While appearing on other programs, Doyle referenced numerous books to illustrate broader cultural and historical points. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he mentioned Aryeh Neier's Defending My Enemy regarding the ACLU defending neo-Nazi free speech rights, Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage while highlighting intolerance surrounding gender issues, and Hannah Barnes's Time to Think during discussions of adolescent referrals to the Tavistock gender clinic. On Modern Wisdom, he referenced Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago to discuss human susceptibility to evil. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, he brought up Franz Kafka's The Trial to compare modern UK police tactics to the novel, referenced William Shakespeare's narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a conversation about artistic patronage, and discussed George Orwell's Animal Farm alongside Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
Books recommended by Andrew Doyle
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo is a popular children's book featuring illustrated short biographies of major historical and contemporary feminist icons.
Discussed“Books like "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" and "C is for Consent," there was that one.”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Critiqued“even when i read white fragility by robin deangelo which i think is a terrible book and is is so flawed throughout every now and then she'll hit on something”
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Lying
Lying by Sam Harris is a concise and provocative extended essay that serves as a direct treatise on why individuals should avoid telling lies, including white lies, and instead commit fully to a life of honesty.
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
A Game of Thrones by 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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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel depicting a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave, confronting society and morality.
Discussed“if you're teaching huckleberry finn although of course a lot of people aren't now because they they say it's a racist book because it contains the word”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“it's precisely the reason why when he wrote Animal Farm he couldn't get it published for so long because people were horrified by the possibility that left-wing people could be authoritarian”
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Antiracist Baby
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X.
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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Cynical Theories
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay is a critical examination of postmodernism, social justice scholarship, and modern political ideologies.
Discussed“It was put like this in James Lindsay and Helen pluck Rose's book that the key question that you ask if you are a critical race theory is not a theorist is not uh did racism take place in this situation”
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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
Dominion by Tom Holland is a sweeping historical work examining how Christianity shaped Western culture, secular values, and modern moral frameworks.
Discussed“Tom Holland wrote is a historian he wrote a book recently called Dominion”
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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 2020 nonfiction book that examines the sharp surge in adolescent girls adopting transgender identities, attributing the trend largely to 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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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic American novella chronicling the tragic journey of two displaced migrant ranch workers, George and Lennie, as they desperately pursue their shared dream during the Great Depression.
Discussed“if you're quoting from a text if you're teaching of mice and men by steinbeck in which the word occurs frequently”
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a classic 1959 political essay that serves as one of history's most robust defenses of individual freedom, free expression, and intellectual liberty.
Discussed“actually this struggle between Liberty and Authority which which John Stuart Mill talks about in his book on Liberty”
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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 play dramatizing the Salem witch trials as an allegory for state-sponsored persecution and conformity.
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 polemical work that argues against the existence of a creator deity and critiques the societal impacts of religion.
Discussed“and and Richard Dawkins address that point in his book The God Delusion”
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental historical exposé documenting the brutal realities of the Soviet forced labor camp system through personal testimony and archival research.
Discussed“You know from the Gulag archipelago the souljitsen text talks about how good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And it would be so easy, wouldn't it, if you could just put all the bad people in one place and all the good people in another place and then get rid of all the bad people.”
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray is a provocative contemporary commentary that investigates the cultural, social, and political shifts surrounding modern identity politics, intersectionality, and public discourse.
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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The once and future liberal
The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla is a provocative political book that examines the trajectory of American liberalism and critiques the rise of identity politics on the left.
Discussed“Mark Lilla wrote about this in his book, "The Once and Future Liberal." We know that across the board, that always happens, right?”
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The Trial
Franz Kafka's renowned novel "The Trial" tells the chilling story of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is abruptly arrested on his birthday for an unspecified crime by an amorphous, incomprehensible judicial system.
Discussed“now you'll know the novel The Trial no presumption of innocence right”
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Time to Think
Time to Think by Hannah Barnes is an investigative non-fiction book that examines the internal workings, clinical practices, and eventual closure of the Tavistock pediatric gender identity clinic in the United Kingdom.
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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Venus and Adonis
Discussed“for instance with with Shakespeare you know he can't right produce his narrative poems Venus and Adonis or rap crease without patronage”
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Books Andrew Doyle wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Well, I know why you're saying this cuz I wrote a book called The End of Woke, but that as you know, I think you've read it. you know that I'm not saying it's all over.”
“In the meantime, you can read my Substack which is andrew Doyle.org or my book End of Woke. It's the new book that I've written or any of my other books if you like.”
“I mean it happened recently where a well-known author Bo John Bo came out in Def who was someone who had attacked he wrote The Boy in the Shri pajam very famous novel”
“and in the book I do make it clear I've called the book the new Puritans um and I refer to the religion of social justice”
“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”
“i think one of the reasons i wrote the book is fundamentally there are so many misconceptions around around free speech”
“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”