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Every book Peter Boghossian recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Peter Boghossian appears on, in one place — not just one.
Peter Boghossian’s most recommended books
- The Big Sort by Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
- What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
- The Gift of Violence by Matt Thornton
- Autobiography of Rev. James Lindsay, D.D. by James Lindsay
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
- Marketing Strategy and Tactics by Alexander Chernev
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
Peter Gregory Boghossian is an American philosopher and college professor who served as an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, with academic foci including atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. During podcast appearances on shows like Timcast IRL, The Rubin Report, and The Joe Rogan Experience, Boghossian recommended and discussed several influential books. He praised Tim Urban's What's Our Problem? as one of the best books he had read, utilizing it to discuss social justice and ideology. He also recommended Matt Thornton's The Gift of Violence during discussions on police data and youth, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind to address university student infantilization, and Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing's The Big Sort to illustrate ideological filter bubbles and tribalism. Additionally, Boghossian discussed Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man to debate historical endpoints and cultural perspectives.
Books recommended by Peter Boghossian
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The Big Sort
The Big Sort by Bill Bishop and Robert G.
Discussed“It's not being, what was the book called, "The Big Sort," a while ago.”
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What's Our Problem?
What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban is a self-help book for societies that examines political tribalism, ideological extremism, and the breakdown of modern discourse through illustrated analysis.
Recommended“have you read Tim Urban you know Tim Urban the weight but why what's our problem no but you you were mentioning it before this is like one of the best books I've ever read”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explores how well-intentioned ideas and bad pedagogical approaches are setting a generation up for failure, with a strong focus on the mental health impacts of social media.
Recommended“and hi just published that a book coddling of the American mind and yeah and and and”
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The Gift of Violence
The Gift of Violence by Matt Thornton is a book that examines the realities of self-defense, conflict, and the actual dynamics of physical confrontations.
Recommended“Matt Thornton has a great book "The Gift of Violence" about this, when he was talking about the police and the role of the police with young Black men, I mean, that was just so contrary to what the data is.”
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Autobiography of Rev. James Lindsay, D.D.
Autobiography of Rev.
Discussed“okay let's just go to the conceptual penis as a social construct as a social construct You wrote a hoax paper with James Lindsay”
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Cynical Theories
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay is a critical examination of postmodernism, social justice scholarship, and modern political ideologies.
Discussed“this is the best book since the 2020 cynical theories by Helen pluck Rosen James Lindsay on this topic in my opinion”
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Marketing Strategy and Tactics
Discussed“if you read the the Christian books they talk about this interesting book called tactics the main thing is you know develop relationships with people”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and Stephen R.
Discussed“but it wasn't until i published started publishing fake papers bogus completely morally horrific papers about minecomp translating minecomp for chain leashing men like release dogs”
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire is a foundational educational and political text that argues education is inherently non-neutral and shapes worldview through specific ideological frameworks.
Discussed“they're all predicated on this book paulo ferrari's pedagogy of the oppressed which is you teach to liberate”
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Suicide of the West
Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg is a political and cultural work examining how modern civilization and Enlightenment values emerged almost by accident.
Discussed“who's a conservative, a atheist conservative, you know, I think is "Suicide of the West," Jonah Goldberg, first line of the book is, "There is no God, he's a arch-conservative."”
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The Conspiracy of Ignorance
Discussed“I read this in U Martin gross's the conspiracy of ignorance many years ago excuse me”
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The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a prominent political science and philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution.
Discussed“I don't think that history has an end point; I don't think we're at the end of history, as Fukuyama suggested.”
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a prominent polemical work that argues against the existence of a creator deity and critiques the societal impacts of religion.
Discussed“I did; just to be clear, he's had that position since The God Delusion about a Christian nation.”
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The Moral Landscape
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris argues that science can and should be an authority on human values, determining what is morally good by looking at the well-being of conscious creatures.
Discussed“we use Sam Harris's book the moral landscape in that class and we talk about”
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The New Puritans
The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle examines modern social justice movements and online cancellation culture by drawing historical parallels to the Salem witch trials.
Discussed“And I think that what conservative and liberal is has shifted, but I'm gonna suggest a new access to you, the new access is, Andrew, my friend Andrew, our friend Andrew Doyle wrote about that book in his book, "The New Puritans," the access of the way to think about these problems isn't liberal conservative right, left, it's authoritarian, non-authoritarian.”
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Books Peter Boghossian wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“It's not being, what was the book called, 'The Big Sort,' a while ago?”
“I just wrote the foreword to Rajiv Malhotra "Snakes in the Ganga," I've written the foreword to John Loftus' book, I've written the foreword to Lindsay's book, tons of forewords.”
“so so let's talk about that for a second so my own when i wrote how to have impossible conversations”
“Hi, my name's Peter Boghossian from the Don't Burn This Book Club, with Dave Rubin, and this is chapter 10”
“Well so as the guy who wrote a manual for creating atheist deprogramming religious thinking is something you've been interested in a long time”