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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
- The Gift of Violence by Matt Thornton
- What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
- Autobiography of Rev. James Lindsay, D.D. by James Lindsay
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
- Tactics by William Balck
Peter Gregory Boghossian is an American philosopher and college professor. He was an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, and his areas of academic focus include atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists, and of How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. Throughout his appearances on various programs, Boghossian has recommended and discussed several books. On Timcast IRL, he praised Tim Urban's What's Our Problem? as one of the best books he had ever read while discussing social justice and ideology. On The Rubin Report, he brought up Matt Thornton's The Gift of Violence to support arguments regarding crime data, police involvement, and how people speak about violence. While appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Boghossian mentioned Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind while discussing the infantilization of university students, and he cited Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing's The Big Sort to illustrate filter bubbles. Additionally, he referenced Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man during discussions on political and historical 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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The Gift of Violence
The Gift of Violence by Matt Thornton is a nonfiction book that examines the practical realities of violence, self-defense, and the use of force in society.
Discussed“I mean, my friend Matt Thornton in the Gift of Violence wrote that um and he's spoken about this. If you really did care care about young dead black men, you'd speak honestly about young dead black men”
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What's Our Problem?
What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban is a self-help guide for societies that analyzes political tribalism, societal polarization, and how human thinking mechanisms shape modern discourse.
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 investigates how modern safetyism, declining childhood resilience, and the rapid rise of social media are negatively impacting the mental health and emotional development of younger generations.
Recommended“and hi just published that a book coddling of the American mind and yeah and and and”
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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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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is Adolf Hitler's notorious autobiographical manifesto detailing his political ideology and antisemitic worldview.
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 philosophical text that critiques traditional schooling models and proposes a liberating approach to teaching rooted in dialogue and political awareness.
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
Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West is a provocative cultural and political analysis tracing how the Enlightenment and classical liberalism created the modern miracle of human progress and prosperity.
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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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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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 is a philosophical work that argues that human values and morality can be understood objectively through the lens of science rather than relying solely on religion or cultural relativism.
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”