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Every book James Lindsay recommended on podcasts
James Lindsay appears on political and cultural interview programs such as The Rubin Report and The Joe Rogan Experience, where he discusses academia, contemporary media narratives, and ideological trends. Drawing on his background as a cultural commentator and author, Lindsay frequently references texts ranging from historical and political treatises to specific academic studies and religious works. To illustrate the importance of engaging with opposing views, he cites John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. When discussing the methods and claims of specific academic movements, he references Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and discusses how he and his co-authors utilized passages from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in academic hoax papers. Furthermore, Lindsay references Alan Sokal's Fashionable Nonsense to explain critiques of postmodern cultural theory, and turns to biblical texts, including James L. Kugel's How to Read the Bible and the biblical Book of Numbers, to examine historical cycles of societal success and failure as well as contemporary political parallels.
Books recommended by James Lindsay
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Cheiro's Book of Numbers
Discussed“and then you know Jordan was talking out of the Book of Numbers the other day I've taken the Book of Numbers very seriously this is wandering in the desert and they're very dissatisfied”
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Fashionable Nonsense
Discussed“and so this is why I did it ended up writing a best-selling New York Times bestselling book called fashionable nonsense talking about how these guys use these fashionable terms and just say the right political things and it's all nonsense”
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How to Read the Bible
How to Read the Bible by James L.
Discussed“and just as you know the poor Israelites you know go through this cycle dozens of times through the through the books of the Bible”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Adolf Hitler outlining his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Discussed“our paper that we wrote Mein Kampf was about yeah we had two two of them the did Mountain Comp one of them we just more or less replaced White's would replace Jews with white men and you you you'd literally took mine Kampf the actual words from my calm yeah and put it in this paper and replaced the”
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is an 1859 philosophical essay widely regarded as one of the most powerful and foundational defenses of free speech and individual liberty.
Discussed“that's in John Stehr Mills book on liberty is it's not enough to have heard that the other side the argument from the other side exists you need to hear the best case put forward by people who really really subscribe to it”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Discussed“well Robyn D'Angelo's white fragility there's a study there's a study there's a study there's a study I know how”
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Books James Lindsay wrote
- Cynical Theories
- Fashionable Nonsense
- Everybody Is Wrong About God
- How to Have Impossible Conversations
- Autobiography of Rev. James Lindsay, D.D.
Appearances
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and like right off the bat somebody said like i'm like my wikipedia said you know james lindsay portrays himself as a serious commentator he wrote a book how to have impossible conversations and yet he goes on twitter and makes your mom jokes”
“If you start informing these people this is like the hail mary then there's a way out of this where in fact it all can almost evaporate as i think helen put in cynical theories as like a puff of its own contradictions or something like that”
“if you start informing these people this is like the hail mary then there's a way out of this where in fact it all can almost evaporate as i think helen put in cynical theories as like a puff of its own contradictions or something like that”
“and so this is why I did it ended up writing a best-selling New York Times bestselling book called fashionable nonsense talking about how these guys use these fashionable terms and just say the right political things”
“and I would I had just written this book or was in the process I don't remember exactly the date I'd written this book trying to look at the psychological motivations behind belief in God and what people mean by that”
“I think one of the most important things and this isn't our forthcoming book about how to have impossible conversations Peter and I just finished one of those important things is to learn to disavow the extremists on your side”
“that's a call everybody's wrong about God and it sounds like I'm just gonna go after religion but it's actually the culmination of my study of religious psychology”
“you know l ron hubbard was at Dianetics or whatever”