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Every book Emily Jashinsky recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Emily Jashinsky appears on, in one place — not just one.
Emily Jashinsky’s most recommended books
- Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- 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 journalist known for her work on Breaking Points, where she regularly analyzes current events, economic policy, and technology alongside co-hosts and guest experts. Throughout her segments, Jashinsky frequently directs viewers toward timely and substantive books. She repeatedly recommended Garrison Lovely's upcoming release, Obsolete, interviewing the author across multiple episodes and consistently encouraging the audience to pre-order the publication regardless of where they stand on the AI debate. In discussions covering international affairs and accountability, she enthusiastically recommended Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, calling it a timely resource for viewers, and urged audiences to check out Norman Finkelstein's Gaza's Gravediggers alongside his accompanying Substack reports. Jashinsky has also used classical economic texts to ground contemporary policy debates, citing volume three of Karl Marx's Capital during a segment on Scott Bessent to argue that historical understandings of debt and leverage remain essential for understanding who ultimately controls modern economic resources.
Books recommended by Emily Jashinsky
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Abundance
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a widely debated book that outlines a policy manifesto for progressives, arguing that the political left should embrace economic growth and the actual construction of physical infrastructure.
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 nonfiction book that investigates the final years of Joe Biden's presidency, his cognitive decline, and the internal party discussions surrounding his reelection campaign.
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 non-fiction book exploring critical debates and scary incidents surrounding 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?
What is Project 2025? is a comprehensive conservative policy blueprint and transition plan for a future presidential administration, compiled by the Heritage Foundation and various allied organizations.
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 and Darryl Cooper is a detailed historical examination of US-Russia relations and the events leading up to the war in Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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 seminal media ecology critique arguing that television and modern visual media degrade public discourse by reducing serious thought to mere entertainment.
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
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial and acclaimed novel about an adult man's obsessive and abusive relationship with a young girl.
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 threats and out-of-control scenarios posed by the rapid advancement 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 distancing from the Democratic Party.
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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The other 154 books Emily Jashinsky recommended or discussed, ranked
- 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 Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel
- 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
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition by Ashlee Vance
- Everybody Loses by Danny Funt
- Fight by Jonathan Allen
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- Gaza's Gravediggers by Norman Finkelstein
- Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton
- Kingdom of Ice by Paula M. Hunter
- Living in Wonder by Rod Dreher
- Mao Tŝe-tung's quotations by Mao Zedong
- Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
- Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward
- Pastoral Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Peter Garrison
- Primal Screams by Mary Eberstadt
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Supreme Power by Jeff Shesol
- Tell Your Children by Alex Berenson
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- The Children by David Halberstam
- The devil's chessboard by David Talbot
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone
- The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein
- The Path To Power by Robert A. Caro
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
- Why We Did It by Tim Miller
- 40 more years by James Carville
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
- American Crusade by Pete Hegseth
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
- Antisemitism in America by Chuck Schumer
- Back Mechanic by Unknown
- Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart
- Blessing the World by Derek A. Rivard
- Breaking Bad by Lara C. Stache
- Capital Without Labor by Lon Forehand
- Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman
- Clinton, Inc. by Daniel Halper
- coming apart the state of white america 1960-2010 by charles murray
- Conservation of Marine Birds of Northern North America by R. Bruce Bury
- Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term? by Alan Dershowitz
- Dawn by Elie Wiesel
- Days of Fire by Peter Baker
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison, Andrew Hastie
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- End Times by Peter Turchin
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
- Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas
- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth
- Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
- Histories by Herodotus
- Hitler by Ian Kershaw
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- Hubris by Michael Isikoff, David Corn
- Jack by Jack Welch
- Kamala Harris by Heather E. Schwartz
- Kids for cash by William Ecenbarger
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
- Mandate for Leadership II by Stuart M. Butler
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
- My Life by Bill Clinton
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
- Operation paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
- Original Sin by Tatha Wiley
- Our Own Worst Enemies by Robert A. Pape
- Pax Syriana by Rola El-Husseini
- Perversion of Justice by Julie K. Brown
- Poisoner In Chief by Stephen Kinzer
- Revelation by Drew Karpyshyn
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Tariff Act of 1930 by United States
- Technique of Fire of the Rifle Squad and Tactical Application by United States. Department of the Army
- The American Wine Society Basic Guide to Pruning by John Roberts McGrew
- The antitrust paradox by Robert H. Bork
- The Biblical Characters, and Other Sages of the Quran by Ahmad Shah
- The big short by Michael Lewis
- The Brigade by Howard Blum
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
- The Constitution of the United States and related documents by United States
- The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
- The Failure of Mandated Disclosure by Omri Ben-Shahar
- The Law of Attraction: How to Manifest Abundance and Success by Shu Chen Hou
- The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived by Della Rucker
- The Long War on Iran by Behrooz Ghamari
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- The passage of power by Robert A. Caro
- The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- The Ruthless Reality by Jeremy Lester-Smith
- The Samson Option by Seymour M. Hersh
- The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
- The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
- The Tech Exit by Clare Morell
- The Technological Republic by Alex Karp
- The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski
- The Unwinding by George Packer
- The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- Traitors by Chapman Pincher
- Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies by Walter Isaacson
- War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler
- War on the West by Douglas Murray
- We Need to Tax Billionaires by Gabriel Zucman
- Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers
- Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan
- Young Man in a Hurry by Gavin Newsom
Appearances
Other mentions (96: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Passing Nuclear War
“Annie Jacobson, the author of Biological War, previously Nuclear War, a scenario, she's going to join us.”
Passing Biological War
“Annie Jacobson, the author of Biological War, previously Nuclear War, a scenario, she's going to join us.”
Plugged Biological War
“Very excited now to be joined by Annie Jacobson. She is the author of Biological War Scenario.”
Passing The Lords of Easy Money
“Christopher Leonard, author of "Coke Land, "The Lords of Easy Money."”
Passing Just the Tweets
“Hope joined the front row Joes in 2018 after publishing a book of Trump's posts on Twitter called Just the Tweets, which helped pay for travel to rallies across the country”
Plugged We've Got People
“And so here's how I described it running into the quote itself I wrote, and this is from We've Got People.”
Plugged We've Got People
“I wrote, and this is this is from We've Got People, there's nothing simple about the experience of poverty.”
Passing Born to Run
“Wasn't that the tag on his cover? I would like to give that tag to Natalie Harp.”
Passing Israel's Lobby
“They are also co-authors of a new book, Israel's Lobby, America in the grip of a foreign power.”
Plugged The Digital Delusion
“He is the author of the digital delusion, a tremendously influential book. How classroom technology harms our kids learning and how to help them thrive again.”
Plugged Obsolete
“He is a journalist and also author of the forthcoming book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It.”
“He is a journalist and also author of the forthcoming book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It.”
Passing This Is The Plan
“John Stewart yesterday interviewed Ben Wikler, who is the chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin who has a new book out called "This Is the Plan."”
Passing The Notebook
“truly love to see a good love story here at the end. It's just like The Notebook.”
Passing Enshittification
“And we've got uh Corey Doctoro joining us. He's the author of Initification.”
Passing Communion
“Well, perhaps we can find some answers with our friend J.D. Vance, who has been on a book tour for his new book Communion, but also some harsh language for the Israelis.”
Passing Dear Lindy
“This is Lindy. It's a tale as old as time.”
Passing Howard Zinn on History
“I feel like if Howard Zinn had been immortal and was around today like writing and writing a new book, it'd be like a Larry Ellison Oracle lobbyist trying to replace Steny Hoyer in Southern Maryland.”
Passing The Downfall
“Have you ever watched that movie Downfall? The German movie about Hitler and the bunker.”
Passing Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The art of the deal author, he said, also seemed to have been some grudging respect for the negotiators. When I first asked about reports they're suspending talks, quote, "It's an appropriate thing to say because they're better negotiators than they are fighters."”
“Yeah, I mean I was listening to the Monk debate with John Mearsheimer and we'll play a clip for him and get get his reaction to to how this went and he was up against with with his partner in writing the Israel Lobby book.”
Passing Bombing to Win
“He directs the Chicago Project on Security and Threats and he's the author of Bombing to Win and writes the Substack The Escalation Trap.”
Passing Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Like, again, you like, art of the deal It's like, well, how he's not going to get this.”
Plugged Yesterday's Man
“He's the author of Yesterday's Man, The Case Against Joe Biden, and is out with a truly fantastic deep dive in deep dive into Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Peter Thiel in Jacobin.”
Passing Trump: The Art of the Deal
“All you have to do is read his book about the art of the deal, uh which is specifically about like scheming and making sure to how to like get his Trump Tower and all of that built.”
Passing Melania
“This initial encounter with my husband is documented in a detail in my book, Melania. Buy the book, people. For which we all have signed copies of.”
Plugged The Perfect Kill
“You're the perfect one to ask about that. You're the author of the the perfect kill. Uh which, you know, you've got in there what I think it's called 21 rules for assassination or something along those lines.”
Passing Alice in Wonderland
“And I think this is a case where they then freaked out about this cuz it's humiliating and they go to one of their favorite journalists, Barak Ravid, and they spin the Alice in Wonderland upside down version of this.”
Passing The Sleepwalkers
“We're sleepwalking just like the book, The Sleepwalkers, right into this disaster.”
Passing The Martian
“It's Project Hail Mary uh by Andy Weir. He's a guy who wrote The Martian.”