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Emily Jashinsky's book recommendations
Books Emily Jashinsky recommends
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Abundance
Why people recommend it: Abundance is a political and economic book co-authored by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson that outlines a manifesto for progressive governance and reform.
Discussed“Ezra Klein has been making the media rounds for his new book on abundance and is getting very little push back.”
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Obsolete
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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Den of Thieves
Recommended“anyway uh den of thieves great book recommendation if you've never read it uh the movie Wall Street was uh based on some of the characters that were in there iosi and Michael I”
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The age of entitlement
Recommended“I mean, if people want to read a good um book on this, Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell is a a short read and it was hugely influential.”
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The Gates of Gaza
Recommended“Author of the Gates of Gaza, by the way, terrific book.”
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a muckraking novel written in 1906 that exposes the horrific working conditions, extreme poverty, and severe sanitation failures of the American meatpacking industry.
Recommended“Go read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair or the history of the Triangle Sherk Waist Fire for a refresher on how workers were treated at that time.”
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Why We Did It
Recommended“The headline here is why we did it travel from the Republican road to hell. And you wrote this about, you know, your own journey from being inside”
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A Game of Thrones
Discussed“Kyle said this to me yesterday was there's this part of Game of Thrones. You watch Game of Thrones where Littlefinger says knowledge is power and Cersei says no power is power, right?”
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Generation Kill
Discussed“I mean that changed a lot of people's minds or that book generation kill having the guy literally in the front Humvey and people were like this is a cluster”
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How to Be an Antiracist
Critiqued“yeah to bring it back to anti-racism for anybody who suffered through Ibrahim kend's books what he proposes is actually Department of anti-racism which would effectively do stuff like this”
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How to Read the Bible
Discussed“Fundamentalist means you actually believe what's in the holy book. I mean there's the Quran, there's the Bible, and they're both full of nonsense. But we have learned to wink at the Bible in the West.”
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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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My Life
Critiqued“I only read My Life, which is complete propaganda, by the way. It's just laughable.”
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Neoconservatism
Critiqued“This is a guy who again when he was in his what mid20s wrote neoconservatism and why we need it in '06 when the Iraq war was a disaster”
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No Logo
Discussed“uh is none other than uh Naomi Klene who relevant to this uh this conversation is the author of uh many uh books but in particular no logo published in 1999 which kind of drew inspiration from and also provided inspiration to uh the burgeoning anti-globalization movement at the time.”
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Original Sin
Discussed“And I think that's some something that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are reporting in Original Sin is that but I I also wonder to what extent that's a kind of cope and I want to get your thoughts on that”
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Original Sin
Discussed“Ryan, let's move on to the roing controversy over Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's forthcoming book.”
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
Discussed“In none of those cases, not even with the infamous Smoot Holly tariff, could the president be held responsible for the downturn as self-evidently as today?”
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The Biblical Characters, and Other Sages of the Quran
Discussed“Fundamentalist means you actually believe what's in the holy book. I mean there's the Quran, there's the Bible, and they're both full of nonsense.”
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The Canceling of the American Mind
Discussed“In Greg, you didn't just write cancelling of the American mind. That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height.”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind examines how modern safetyism, parenting styles, and social media contribute to rising mental health issues and a culture of fragility among young people.
Discussed“That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”
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The Law of Attraction: How to Manifest Abundance and Success
Discussed“Because you mentioned abundance. Actually, in abundance, the first chapter begins like that is a very effective rhetorical tactic to say, imagine your life minute by minute or hour by hour.”
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The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived
Discussed“It's called capital without labor, data centers, and the local economy.”
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray is a contemporary socio-political critique exploring the modern cultural obsession with identity politics, gender, and social grievances.
Critiqued“You are a literal dilotant who flits about the world, writes neoonservatism and why we need it and now madness of crowds and the strange death of your It's like are you a expert on immigration?”
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The Shallows
Discussed“And Nicholas Carr started writing on this. When was the Shallows? Was like 2011. That's right. Yeah.”
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The Strange Death of Europe
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray is a non-fiction book examining the cultural and demographic shifts occurring across the European continent.
Critiqued“You are a literal dilotant who flits about the world, writes neoonservatism and why we need it and now madness of crowds and the strange death of your It's like are you a expert on immigration?”
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Books Emily Jashinsky wrote
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Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing The Enemy of the People
“But he likes some of the other guys like who wrote the uh uh enemy of the people book. The enemy of the people book. The CNN guy. Um Oh, Jim Aosta. Yeah. Yeah.”
Own book Why We Did It
“We're going to talk to you a little bit about the book, which I love the title. you you called it why we did it in a little OJ nod there about your years as a Republican hatchet man”
Own book The Canceling of the American Mind
“Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind.”
“Actually, one of the interesting things is that in the early days of the war during Iraq and Afghanistan, they actually did let journalists do that and they started to pull back those, you know, so that you don't have, remember that documentary Restreo?”
Passing The Origins of Woke
“He's author of a number of books including the origins of woke and also has his own Substack.”
“This is going to be a crazy book in the Oxford history uh from a hundred years from now. The story of the first 100 days from the Trump administration will be Doge tariffs and El Salvador, which is nuts.”
Passing The Art Of The Deal
“If Trump ultimately gets back into the something very similar to the original Obama JCPOA deal, I have no doubt he can message it as like this is totally different and this is way better and art of the deal or whatever. Fine, whatever your ego needs, go ahead and do it.”
Passing On Democracies and Death Cults
“My friend Douglas Murray just released a new book, My Friend on Democracies and Death Cults.”
Passing On Democracies and Death Cults
“My friend Douglas Murray just released a new book, My Friend on Democracies and Death Cults.”
Passing Too Big to Fail
“We should explain that because people don't really like Andrew Rossin is the guy who wrote Too Big to Fail.”
Passing The Art Of The Deal
“You're talking about Ryan. That was just art of the deal. That was the plan the whole time.”
Passing The Art Of The Deal
“Oh, well, I guess it's art of the deal. I Yeah, art of the deal.”