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Bari Weiss's book recommendations
Bari Weiss appears as a podcast host and interviewer engaging with journalists, politicians, and authors on political controversy, foreign policy, and cultural shifts. Weiss uses her platform to highlight and recommend significant works of nonfiction and contemporary analysis. During an episode featuring Patrick McGee, Weiss prompted her guest to name an important recent book, leading to a discussion of David S. Landes's The Wealth and Poverty of Nations regarding the industrial revolution. Weiss also frequently champions the work of her regular guests, enthusiastically recommending Douglas Murray's bestseller On Democracies and Death Cults at the close of an episode exploring moral collapse in the West, and promoting Ross Douthat's Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious at the start of an interview on faith. Additionally, Weiss brings up newly released investigative titles during her interviews, referencing Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Original Sin to question political guests about the reporting surrounding Joe Biden's presidency.
Books Bari Weiss recommends
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Believe
Recommended“His latest book, which we talk about today, is called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.”
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On Democracies and Death Cults
Discussed“And maybe put another way, and you write about this in the book, and as I read it, I'm like, "Wow, I can't I can't believe I didn't think about it this way." You know, there's been so many protests since October 7th, 2023. And what you write about and point out is that there was no mass protest in”
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Recommended“What's the most important book you've read in the past five or so years, the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Lans or Landes. Okay. Um, late Harvard economist. It's basically on the industrial revolution.”
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Cross Purposes
Discussed“In this new book of yours called Cross Purposes, which is a wonderful title, you ask a simple question, which is why has America become ungovernable?”
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Original Sin
Discussed“It's coming out, this news, um, the day before Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book, Original Sin, which is broadly, uh, reparage about the cover up of Joe Biden's mental condition when he was president of the United States.”
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is a work of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion, arguing that human morality is rooted in intuition rather than pure reason.
Discussed“I know Jonathan Height talks about this in his book, The Righteous Minds, that we all have sort of a God-shaped hole in us”
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Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“McGee is the author of Apple in China, the capture of the world's greatest company, which hits bookstores today.”
“She has a new book out that allows those who don't know her to access that wisdom. It's called I Wish Someone Had Told Me: The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life, which just hit bookstores.”
“Jonathan Roush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and he just wrote a book called Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy.”