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Every book Brendan O'Neill recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Brendan O'Neill has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of April 10, 2024.
- Brendan O'Neill has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of April 10, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of April 10, 2024.
- The 3 books Brendan O'Neill has mentioned in the most episodes, as of April 10, 2024: 1984, Brave New World and The Communist Manifesto.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Brendan O'Neill aired on April 10, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Brendan O'Neill appears on, in one place — not just one.
Brendan O'Neill’s most recommended books
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it by Frederick Douglass
- Grundrisse by Karl Marx
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Brendan O'Neill appears on platforms like The Rubin Report and The Joe Rogan Experience as a fiercely contrarian political writer and free speech advocate who critiques modern culture, authoritarian tendencies, and contemporary left-wing politics. Throughout his podcast appearances, O'Neill has recommended and analyzed seminal political and philosophical texts. He strongly recommended Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto to viewers, emphasizing that its opening pages feature a surprising degree of praise for the capitalist class. In examining modern ideological discourse, O'Neill frequently referenced George Orwell's 1984, drawing direct parallels between the dystopian Ministry of Truth and contemporary environments where news is rewritten to align with strict ideological narratives. Additionally, O'Neill brought up John Stuart Mill's On Liberty to discuss informal tyranny and the dangers of societal censorship. He referenced Frederick Douglass's essay A Plea for Free Speech to highlight historical resistance against hecklers shutting down abolitionist meetings. Finally, O'Neill cited Karl Marx's Grundrisse and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to caution against authoritarian states obsessed with engineered happiness and the suppression of authentic human conflict.
Books recommended by Brendan O'Neill
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“And but this is where we really get to the Orwellian stage of what's going on right now because this is the sacrifice of news to ideology. And that is literally the storyline of 1984.”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian science fiction novel that depicts a technologically advanced future society controlled through engineered reproduction, psychological conditioning, and constant superficial pleasure.
Discussed“actually brings to mind Huxley's brave new world because in brave new world the terrifying authoritarian state is obsessed with making people happy”
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is a foundational 1848 political pamphlet that outlines the core tenets of Marxism, class struggle, and the eventual overthrow of the capitalist system.
Recommended“if you read the communist manifesto which I recommend to all your viewers they must read the communist manifesto the first nine or ten pages are devoted to praising the capitalist class”
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Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it
Discussed“you know they remind me of one of the greatest things ever written about freedom of speech was titled a plea for free speech by Frederick Douglas former slave of course become abolitionist one of my favorite figures from American history he took part in a abolitionist meeting in Boston and it was shut down by hecklers the pro-slavery hecklers”
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Grundrisse
Grundrisse by Karl Marx is a massive and influential collection of preliminary notebooks written in 1857 and 1858 that laid the theoretical groundwork for Das Kapital, focusing on the critique of political economy, capitalism, and production.
Discussed“but you know the problem with anti capitalism today is that it's incredibly it hates all the things about capitalism that the early Marx is actually quite liked which is international trade the internationalization of trade even the consumer society in the Grundy's Marx wrote about the wonders of advertising”
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is an 1859 essay by the nineteenth-century British liberal philosopher.
Discussed“and it's a point John Stuart Mill makes in on Liberty John Stuart Mill often argued that the worst kind of censorship is not necessarily legal or state censorship”
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Books Brendan O'Neill wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2133 - Brendan O'Neill | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-04-10 | 2 |
| Free Speech: Hypocrisy of Antifa & the Radical Left | Brendan O’Neill | FREE SPEECH | Rubin Report | The Rubin Report | 2017-12-01 | 6 |
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“one of the examples in my book a Heretics Manifesto one of the examples I give is William Tindale”
“This is of course what Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson had been debating a lot for the last year and a half and many others a Ben Shapiro wrote a book about it”