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Every book Emily Jashinsky recommended on podcasts
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Emily Jashinsky’s most recommended books
- Abundance by Ezra Klein
- The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper
- Obsolete by Garrison Lovely
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
- What is Project 2025? by Unknown
- Provoked by Scott Horton, Darryl Cooper
- 107 Days by Kamala Harris
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Emily Jashinsky is a political commentator and co-host of Breaking Points who frequently interviews authors and discusses timely non-fiction and economic texts. Across multiple episodes, Jashinsky introduced guests and enthusiastically recommended their new or upcoming books. She welcomed Kevin Roose to discuss his book The AGI Chronicles, which covers the inside story of the race to create artificial superintelligence. Jashinsky introduced Victor Sebestyen and his historical book Weimar Germany: The Death of a Democracy. She plugged Garrison Lovely's upcoming book Obsolete multiple times, encouraging viewers to pre-order the title and noting it is worth a read regardless of one's stance on the debate. Jashinsky recommended that viewers check out Norman Finkelstein's book Gaza's Gravediggers alongside his Substack reports. She brought up Karl Marx's Capital to argue that Scott Bessent should reread volume three to understand how debt and leverage shape economic control over resources. Finally, Jashinsky enthusiastically recommended Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick's timely book Israel's Lobby, urging the audience to go out and pick up a copy at the conclusion of the interview.
Books recommended by Emily Jashinsky
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Abundance
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a widely debated political manifesto that challenges progressive orthodoxy by arguing that liberals must embrace economic growth, regulatory reform, and actual physical building to achieve their goals.
Discussed“So Gavin Newsome is now taking aim at the California Environmental Quality Act, which if you've read Abundance, if you followed Ezra Klein's work, that is a sort of fixation.”
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The Fort Bragg Cartel
The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp is an investigative non-fiction book that exposes drug trafficking, murder, and corruption within the United States military's special forces community.
Discussed“So to dig into this background and what exactly the hell is going on with it, we have literally the perfect person, Seth Harp, who is an incredible investigative journalist and also the author of um the also incredible book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which we learned is being uh turned into a series by HBO.”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Critiqued“The current anti-semitism task force by the Trump administration is as close the government has ever come to the department of anti-racism proposed in Ibrahim Kendy's book which obviously I oppose but you know obviously we don't have the same level of opposition.”
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Original Sin
Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson is a political non-fiction book detailing President Joe Biden's political decline, the internal cover-up surrounding his health, and his controversial choice to run for reelection in 2024.
Discussed“Um but Clooney and and this is I think reported out in the Tapper Thompson book.”
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Obsolete
Obsolete by Garrison Lovely is a book that examines the intersection of technology and labor, focusing specifically on the efforts to replace human workers with artificial intelligence.
Recommended“Garrison Lovely, the author of the new book which is out in a couple of weeks, uh Obsolete, uh is joining us now to discuss that. Garrison, thanks so much for being here.”
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Trump: The Art of the Deal
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J.
Discussed“I mean, your point is I think the important one that he literally wrote about this negotiation style in Art of the Deal.”
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What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a comprehensive conservative blueprint and policy transition plan designed to restructure the federal government during a future Republican presidential administration.
Discussed“Something that was a plan that was laid out, by the way, in Project 2025, as Emily and I talked about yesterday.”
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Provoked
Provoked by Scott Horton is a detailed historical analysis examining the complex geopolitical dynamics and relations between the United States and Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a primary focus on the origins of the war in Ukraine.
Recommended“He is the director of the Libertarian Institute, author of Provoked, a fantastic book and a great friend of the show. Scott, thank you so much for joining us.”
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107 Days
107 Days is a political memoir by Kamala Harris that offers an insider account of her high-profile campaign and political career.
Discussed“Miss Harris last week announcing new dates for her book tour promoting 107 days for 2026, including stops in cities with large black voting populations”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a media critique arguing that modern public discourse has been dangerously degraded by the shift from print culture to television and visual entertainment, where amusement supersedes serious thought.
Discussed“The reality is, is that in today's society, before our show, I was talking to you about this book, I finally read, I knew the thesis but I actually hadn't read it, amusing ourselves to death, I think that's what a fully automated AI life will look like.”
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita centers on the deeply disturbing relationship between an adult narrator and a young girl whom he exploits across America.
Discussed“But what did we remember that EP his Larry Summers's wife recommended Lolita to EP? That's right. And got him like an annotated copy.”
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Discussed“Yes, he talked about how he would hear things from the Israelis and then on the next day, he would hear it on Mark Levin show or in the Wall Street Journal or uh by Mark Dubowitz, anybody from the Israel lobby. I mean, literally out of the book from Professor John Mearsheimer, who we just talked to.”
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Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves by James B.
Recommended“The Milkin one remains the craziest. One of my favorite books was specifically about uh Michael Milin and it's by James Stewart, specifically about the whole like insider trading arbitrage scandal back in the 1980s and Rudy Giuliani was one of the people who helped prosecute them.”
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The Trillion Dollar War Machine
The Trillion Dollar War Machine by William D.
Recommended“He is a senior researcher at the Quincy Institute and is the author of this excellent new book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home.”
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is a stark warning about the existential risks posed by the potential creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence.
Discussed“So if you want to actually dig into one of the use cases, we had on the, one of the co-authors of the book, if anyone builds it, everyone dies and they lay out.”
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Regime Change
Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan is a political nonfiction book offering an insider look at the imperial presidency of Donald Trump through extraordinary anecdotes and reporting from inside the administration.
Discussed“We've got Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan coming on to talk about their new blockbuster book, which is like the look inside the Trump administration.”
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow is a critical examination of artificial intelligence development, industry hype, and technological bubbles.
Discussed“And he's out with a new book called the reverse centaur's guide to life after AI that gives his view of AI development, what's real, what's false, is it a hype machine, is it a bubble, how should you approach it?”
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Coming apart
Coming Apart by Charles A.
Discussed“Charles Murray wrote a great book in 2012 about how we are coming apart. That was the name of the book”
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Delay, Deny, Defend
Delay, Deny, Defend by Jay M.
Discussed“um you also have uh let's go to the next one up there on the screen you have the book the delay deny defend book which was cited on the shell casings by Luigi mangioni that has surg to number three on the Amazon bestseller list”
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Independent
Independent by Karine Jean-Pierre is a political memoir written by the former White House press secretary detailing her perspective and experiences within the Biden administration.
Critiqued“Like the idea of writing a book called The Independent is so smart. But man, did she get it wrong, right?”
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- Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 by Unknown
- If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer
- Days of rage by Bryan Burrough
- How to Sell a Genocide by Adam H. Johnson
- The age of entitlement by Christopher Caldwell
- The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Bible by Bible
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers
- We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq
- We Are the Union by Eric Blanc
- Biological War by Annie Jacobsen
- Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
- Gerontocracy in America by Samuel Moyn
- Mutiny by Noam Scheiber
- Railroaded by Richard White
- The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Generation Kill by Evan Wright
- Neoconservatism by Douglas Murray
- The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
- Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Bombing to Win by Robert A. Pape
- Capital by Karl Marx
- Commander Schley's report of his search for the Greely Expedition by Phone Number List | Databases List
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
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Emily Jashinsky’s book recommendations by year
All 176 books Emily Jashinsky recommended or discussed across 189 episodes, filed by the year each episode came out. Each year goes episode by episode, with the minute every book came up.