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Every book Winston Marshall recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Winston Marshall appears on, in one place — not just one.
Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall is an English podcaster, political commentator, and musician. He is the former banjoist and lead guitarist of the folk rock band Mumford & Sons, with whom he won multiple awards, including two Grammys and two Brit Awards. Marshall recommended and discussed several political and philosophical works across various podcast appearances. On Timcast IRL, he recommended Klaus Schwab's book The Great Narrative over his other works, calling it terrifying for how it attempts to create a new quasi-religion and moral structure based on climate change, while also touching upon Schwab's related work Covid-19: The Great Reset. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and Timcast IRL, Marshall discussed Karl Popper's book The Open Society and Its Enemies, analyzing the post-WWII dichotomy between open and closed societies and noting the paradox of tolerance found within its footnotes. Additionally, Marshall referenced Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces on Timcast IRL while discussing archetypal storytelling and the hero's journey in the context of children's stories, and he brought up John Milton's Areopagitica on The Rubin Report during a conversation regarding the history of free speech philosophers in Britain.
Books recommended by Winston Marshall
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper is a monumental post-World War II philosophical critique of totalitarianism that explores the historical roots of closed societies and defends the principles of liberal democracy.
Discussed“at the end of the second world war you have writers like KL poer writing about the open society and they create this dichotomy between the open society and the closed Society”
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The Great Narrative
The Great Narrative by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret is a socio-economic policy book that proposes a collaborative global framework to address contemporary systemic crises and shape a new moral structure for society.
Recommended“and and if there's one book to read it's uh it's the it's not the great reset it's the great narrative”
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Covid-19: The Great Reset
Covid-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret is a socio-political book exploring global restructuring in the wake of the pandemic.
Discussed“although I've read most of of cloud Schwab's books and what there is evidence is is that there has a completely different set of priorities”
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Areopagitica
Areopagitica by John Milton is a historically significant prose tract defending freedom of speech and opposing government licensing of the press.
Discussed“we have philosophers like John Loch John Stuart Mill John Milton with ero Pago”
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Speechless
Speechless by Michael Knowles is a political commentary book that examines how language and cultural narratives are used to shape public thought and exert social control.
Discussed“The situation arose regarding a book by BLM's Andy Knowles, which discussed Antifa and the BLM riots. [David] Yeah.”
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is a seminal study of comparative mythology that outlines the universal narrative structure known as the hero's journey.
Discussed“And I don't watch uh these kinds of films necessarily. Not I'm not against them, but these are archetypal story typing uh storytelling and archetypal heroes. And uh this is very much Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey. And this is what we actually need for kids, I think, is in the stories.”
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