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Every book Jeffrey Tucker recommended on podcasts
Jeffrey Tucker appears on podcasts such as The Rubin Report, where he engages in extensive discussions regarding political philosophy, economic history, and the intellectual roots of right-wing collectivism and reactionary ideologies. Throughout the interview, Tucker references numerous foundational and historical texts to trace these trajectories. He recommends Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political as an attack on liberalism, referring to the author as Cross MIT. Additionally, he discusses Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind to examine the emergence of post-World War II conservative thought, and explores Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West to illustrate how early twentieth-century German theorists captivated American thinkers. Tucker also references Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race and Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man to highlight the historical prevalence of pseudoscientific eugenics and racial theories. Through these references, Tucker provides a sweeping historical overview of political theory, intellectual movements, and the darker currents of social ideology over the past two centuries.
Books recommended by Jeffrey Tucker
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MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver
MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver is an archival compilation of specialized scientific literature.
Recommended“and then to me Dave it all it all culminates in the works of cross MIT from the from the late 1930s and is in his amazing book called the concept of the political and if you'll give me just one quick second to explain this because because you as a liberal I need to read this book”
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The Concept of the Political
Discussed“and then to me Dave it all it all culminates in the works of cross MIT from the from the late 1930s and is in his amazing book called the concept of the political”
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The Conservative Mind
Discussed“Russell Kirk's book called the mindset of a conservative something like the conservative mind I think is what it was called”
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The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a massive historical and philosophical work that posits civilizations operate in cyclical patterns akin to biological organisms, rising and eventually falling.
Discussed“because now you're reading all the way into your the the 1910s with the works of Oswald Spengler you know the the right hey galleon German theorist and enraptured every American here they're all reading his book oh my god the decline of the West”
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The descent of man
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin is a foundational scientific text that applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, exploring sexual selection, human ancestry, and racial differences.
Discussed“the other was called The Descent of Man and The Descent of Man had the very unfortunate paragraph in there where he gret regrets the invention of mass disease killing Juris”
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species is the foundational scientific text that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, forever altering humanity's understanding of the natural world.
Discussed“he was a thoroughgoing Darwinian because she recall that Darwin had two great books Origin of Species the other was called The Descent of Man”
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The Passing of the Great Race
Discussed“and you know the this this very funny book called the passing of the great race by Madison grant that was on every coffee table in the late nineteenth and early 1920s you know was was forecasting doom for the white race”
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Books Jeffrey Tucker wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Right Wing Collectivism and Saving Liberalism (Jeffrey Tucker Interview) | The Rubin Report | 2018-08-24 | 9 |