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Every book Dave Rubin recommended on podcasts
Across 5 podcasts. Every show Dave Rubin appears on, in one place — not just one.
Dave Rubin’s most recommended books
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
- A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Contact by Carl Sagan
David Joshua Rubin is an American conservative political commentator, talk show host, YouTuber, and author. He is the host of The Rubin Report, a talk show on YouTube and the BlazeTV network. Across episodes of his show, Rubin frequently promoted and recommended guest publications and his own work to his viewers. He directed listeners to Dennis Prager's book If There Is No God and promoted Sean Spicer's Trump 2.0 during closing remarks. Rubin also recommended Jan Jekielek's Killed to Order, Michael Shermer's Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters, and John Kennedy's How to Test Negative for Stupid by providing direct purchasing links in his show notes. Additionally, Rubin recommended Carl B. Barney's The Happiness Experiment and brought up Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage to support his points about social contagion elements affecting young people in modern society. Through these recommendations, Rubin regularly directed his audience toward conservative political commentary, social critiques, and independent author projects.
Books recommended by Dave Rubin
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12 Rules for Life
Jordan B.
Discussed“so again it's like the same with with 12 rules”
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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.
Recommended“Abigail Shri wrot wrote an incredible book called irreversible damage about just that that there's a social contagion element to this where suddenly because so many kids are being taught taught in seventh grade health class that you can change your gender”
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian is an incisive and clear critique of faith-based thinking that emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and provides tools for spreading secular ideas.
Discussed“He wrote a book called "A Manual for Creating Atheists." And now most of his friends are usually, well, certainly people of faith, but mostly evangelical Christians, I think.”
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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.
Recommended“that's why he in his form not his last book his previous book uh madness of crowds when he wrote about lgb that was one chapter”
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The Virtue of Nationalism
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony is a political theory book that defends the nation-state and examines the historical and philosophical roots of nationalism against global governance and empires.
Discussed“so i reference the book that i have right here by your um Horizonte have called the virtue of nationalism and and i think you guys in the UK have a have a particularly unique experience related to nationalism”
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein is a controversial energy book that argues that the widespread use of oil, coal, and natural gas has drastically improved global human flourishing and environmental safety rather than hindered it.
Discussed“when I had Alex Epstein on and wrote a book called the moral case for fossil fuels”
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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a data-driven defense of reason, science, humanism, and progress that argues humanity is living in an era of unprecedented health, prosperity, and safety.
Discussed“And you know, his new book, Enlightenment Now, is that things are trending more positively. But even hearing that is is very hard for a lot of people.”
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance
Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz is a dialogue-based book that explores the challenges of Islamic extremism, religious reform, and the possibility of fostering a more tolerant interpretation of the faith.
Discussed“their book was was about Islam in the future of Tolerance not Islam in the future of nuclear war”
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Waking Up
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris is an insightful exploration of meditation, consciousness, and the secular aspects of spiritual practice, bridging scientific rationality with inner awareness.
Discussed“because you may remember Ben Affleck was on Real Time with Bill Maher when sam Harris the the neuroscientist and really mindful thinker was on to talk about his book waking up a guide to spirituality without religion”
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.
Discussed“I ate some pot brownies and then went to see the movie "Contact" by the great science communicator, Carl Sagan.”
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Don't Burn This Book
Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin is a political and cultural work that argues for the importance of independent thought and classical liberalism in a polarized society.
Discussed“You know, my first book, Don't Burn This Book, came out in April of 2020.”
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a sprawling virtual reality universe filled with nostalgic pop culture references.
Discussed“you were one of the producers of Ready Player One, a movie and a book that I read many many years ago, but a movie that I reference all the time on this show”
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The Strange Death of Europe
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray is a non-fiction book that examines the cultural and political transformation of Europe through mass migration, open borders, and demographic shifts.
Discussed“You've been talking about all this for a long time. Uh strange death of Europe and you know at least a decade you've been on all of this.”
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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“- Yeah, you don't get 597 1197.0 much further than that. 598 1199.0 I gotta show you. 599 1200.0 I have a copy of "On 600 1202.0 Liberty" in my nightstand. 601 1204.0 So I'm with you on that.”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual surveillance, historical denial, and severe psychological manipulation.
Discussed“this is dystopian I mean this is 1984 level stuff where they they want to take your children from you”
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Unmasked
Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Andy Ngo is a controversial exposé that examines the tactics, ideology, and structural organization of radical leftist extremist groups.
Recommended“He's the one who dared to recommended Andy Ngo's scary book about Antifa.”
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a philosophical novel that outlines the author's system of Objectivism through a dystopian narrative about a society collapsing under heavy government intervention.
Discussed“Nick, you just gave me like a three minute sort of Atlas shrugged ending sales job for Locals because that's exactly what I'm trying to do with Locals we're building escape hatch while I'm yelling”
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a globally celebrated fantasy book series following a young wizard's epic struggle against the dark wizard Voldemort.
Discussed“if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right I will frequently write an author if I really like their I might be fiction or whatever you know or a singer a performer I really like that's”
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a fantasy novel by J.K.
Discussed“if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right”
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The Diversity Myth
The Diversity Myth by David O.
Discussed“- Yeah so you mentioned "The Diversity Myth" and I've talked to Peter on the show and you guys wrote this book, 1995.”
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The other 152 books Dave Rubin recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Loserthink by Scott Adams
- How to Test Negative for Stupid by John Kennedy
- The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley
- Truth by Michael Shermer
- What's Left? by Nick Cohen
- Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Confronting Evil by Bill O'Reilly
- War on the West by Douglas Murray
- A Carlin Home Companion by Kelly Carlin
- Blueprint by Nicholas A. Christakis
- Faithful Presence by Bill Haslam
- Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw
- Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Killed to Order by Jan Jekielek
- Light of the Mind, Light of the World by Spencer Klavan
- Thanksgiving by Melanie Kirkpatrick
- The Anti-Communist Manifesto by Jesse Kelly
- The Happiness Experiment by Carl B Barney
- The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
- Trump 2.0 by Sean Spicer
- Addicted to Outrage by Glenn Beck
- Blackout by Candace Owens
- Conservatism by Yoram Hazony
- Giving the Devil his Due by Michael Shermer
- Make Your Own Sunshine by Janice Dean
- Not My First Rodeo by Kristi Noem
- Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro
- The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
- The History of the Future by Blake J. Harris
- While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park
- A Strange Habit of Mind by Andrew Klavan
- Conspiracy by Michael Shermer
- Deception by Rand Paul
- Don't Lie to Me by Jeanine Pirro
- Equal Is Unfair by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Free Speech by Nadine Strossen
- Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- How to Save the West by Spencer A. Klavan
- If There Is No God by Dennis Prager
- In the Blood by Jack Carr
- John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty by C. Bradley Thompson
- Joint Inspection of the Handling of Cases Involving Disability Hate Crime by Great Britain. HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, Great Britain. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
- Killing the Killers by Bill O'Reilly
- Manhood by Josh Hawley
- Manufacturing consent by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, John Pruden
- Only the Strong by Tom Cotton
- Our Republican Constitution by Randy E. Barnett
- Rise by Brigitte Gabriel
- Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel
- Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know by Ronald Bailey, Marian L. Tupy
- The End of Gender by Debra Soh
- The House of Love and Death by Andrew Klavan
- The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
- The People Vs. Barack Obama by Ben Shapiro
- The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams by John Adams
- Trumpocracy by David Frum
- Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
- With All Due Respect by Nikki R. Haley
- You Will Own Nothing by Carol Roth
- 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, Eckhart
- A Revolution of Common Sense by Scott Jennings
- Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
- Breaking Christian Curses by Dennis Cramer
- Breaking History by Jared Kushner
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- Dark Future by Glenn Beck
- Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
- Don't Burn This Country by Dave Rubin
- End of Discussion by Mary Katharine Ham, Guy Benson
- Everything Reminds Me of Something by Adam Carolla
- Fault Lines by Karl Pillemer, Ph.D.
- Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock
- For Love of Country by Tulsi Gabbard
- Future shock by Alvin Toffler
- Genius Kitchen by Max Lugavere
- Get It Together by Jesse Watters
- Grace Canceled by Dana Loesch
- Heavens on Earth by Michael Shermer
- Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza
- Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
- How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro
- How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Gregory Boghossian, James A. Lindsay
- I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L Geisler
- Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
- Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady by Douglas Murray
- Israel on Trial by Roy K. Altman
- Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise by Matthew Kapell
- Jersey Boys (Songbook) by Frankie Valli
- Jordan B. Peterson Best Selling Combo 3 Books Set (We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine, 12 Rules for Life an Antidote to Chaos and Beyond Order 12 More Rules for Life Jordan Peterson) by Jordan B. Peterson
- Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
- Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- Liberal Privilege by Donald Trump Jr.
- Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher
- Living with the Monks by Jesse Itzler
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
- Milton Friedman on Freedom by Milton Friedman
- Minority Report by John D. Griffin
- My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism by Titania McGrath
- Naming Your Little Geek by Scott Rubin
- Nation of Victims by Vivek Ramaswamy
- New Right by Michael Malice
- Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran
- Reasons To Vote For Democrats by Michael J. Knowles
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
- Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
- San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger
- Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
- Stop, in the Name of God by Charlie Kirk
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- The Atheist Muslim by Ali A. Rizvi
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
- The Consuming Instinct by Gad Saad
- The Diversity Delusion by Heather Mac Donald
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael E. Mann
- The Holy Grail of Investing by Tony Robbins
- The Iran Wars by Jay Solomon
- The Joy of Hate by Greg Gutfeld
- The Practical Skeptic by Lisa J. McIntyre
- The Rational Bible: Genesis by Dennis Prager
- The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- The War of Return by Adi Schwartz
- The War of the Roses by R. B. Mowat
- The War on Reality by Dr. Frank Turek
- The White Pill by Michael Malice
- The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
- This Cursed Beautiful Land by Evan Gershkovich
- Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
- Total Recall by Lane Bakke
- Triggered by Donald Trump Jr.
- Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis
- Unwoke by Ted Cruz
- Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan
- Wartime Writings by Einat Wilf
- Why I Am a Liberal & Other Conservative Ideas by Everett Piper
- Woke by Titania McGrath
- You Can't Read this Book by Nick Cohen
- Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
- Zero to One by Peter A. Thiel, Blake Masters
Books Dave Rubin wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (265: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“I wrote about this 10 years ago in Don't Burn This Book. They are using the soft underbelly of liberalism.”
“I want Chinese-style communism to happen. We'll be the scarecrow in the dark night rises.”
“Isaac Asimov wrote about this in I, Robot and several other books”
“This, I'm gonna show you a video of this in just a sec, but Charlie opened for me when I did my Don't Burn This Country book tour in Arizona where, obviously, turning point is, and he was in horrific back pain.”
“And joining me today is the host of Heretics and the author of The Psychology of Secrets, Andrew Gold.”
“when we did the original show, what was that four years ago or something with Dantis for the Don't Burn This Book tour and we were it was the height of Don't Say Gay and All That Ridiculous and the height of the postcoavid Dantis rise and we're in Orlando in Disney country and there's protesters outside”
“He had literally read the book and in the and in the in wait was in the first book. No, it was in the second book.”
“and don't burn this country. I wrote about because I was writing about college. I wrote about how you literally you were my intern.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report and joining me today is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of America's cultural revolution how the radical left conquered everything”
“And joining me today is the host of NewsNation's Botya, {exclamation point} and the author of the newly released book, The Jews and the Left, my friend Bay Ungar-Sargon.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is former White House press secretary, now turned podcaster extraordinaire and author of the new best-selling book Trump 2.0, know the revolution that will permanently transform America.”
“Joining me today is not only the most all-time returning guest in the history of the Rubin Report, but now number one best-selling New York Times author, my friend and author of the new book, Suicidal Empathy:”
“Dying to Be Kind, Dr. Gad Saad. Gad, how was that for an intro?”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is host of Socrates in the city as well as the author of the new book out this week, Revolution, the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is my good friend, the co-founder of Prageru and author of the new book, If There Is No God, The Great, Emphasis on Great, Dennis Prager.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a sex neuroscientist and author of Sex Tinctions, The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy, long-lost Rubin Report guest Debra Soh.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a US federal judge right here in the Southern District of Florida and author of the newly released book Israel on trial examining the history, the evidence, and the law.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a Harvard professor and author of the new book out today, The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.”
“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of the Buck Sexton Show as well as the author of the new book Manufacturing Delusion: How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda against you, my friend Buck Ston.”
“Buck, do you have a book? Manufacturing delusion, which your smart audience of literate people who like good writing and books and is a very large audience. Therefore, a lot of books should be bought should please go get this book.”
“people might think you're exaggerating, but about seven years ago when I was in London, I walked around one evening with Douglas Murray, who of course has been way ahead of this, kind of like you, and wrote The Strange Death of Europe, and several other books, and he took me to different places and was just pointing out what”
“All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a CNN senior political contributor and author of the new book, A Revolution of Common Sense, Scott Jennings.”
“Joining me today is professor and author of the upcoming book, Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, Arthur Brooks.”
“All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is News Nation's chief Washington anchor and author of the book Born Lucky, Leland Vidder.”
“And, you know, you've been very kind to let me plug the book Born Lucky a few times.”
“And I am thrilled to be kind of sort of hopefully not doing too much politics today because joining me is award-winning actress and author of the new book Unscripted, Cheryl Hines.”
“All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of the Prof G podcast and author of the new book Notes on Being a Man, Scott Galloway.”
“But first, let's talk about the book for a moment because it's called Woke is Dead.”
“GZ Gulch and your books and Ein Ran's books and all that stuff.”
“he is the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and author of the new book Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. Eric Trump, how are you?”