Books Mentioned in This Podcast
It Ends With Us
Buy on AmazonWell, Crystal, the saga of 'It Ends With Us,' starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, has officially crossed the threshold from a story of celebrity intrigue to one of greater import.
It Ends With Us
Buy on AmazonRemember, a lot of people probably do—like you were talking about with your daughter—those clips of Blake Lively going viral around the premiere of 'It Ends With Us.'
Hillbilly Elegy
Buy on AmazonYeah, and I know we're going to get into all of that, because again, we have a Sager tweet, but it echoes something that you actually heard from JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy that he's since kind of recanted this critique of American culture.
Episode: Trump BACKS ELON In MAGA H1B War
Homage to Catalonia
Buy on AmazonObviously, people say 'man' in George Orwell's book 'Homage to Catalonia.' But it's much more of a thing in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.'
Episode: Center-Left COLLAPSE As Trudeau Faces RESIGNATION Calls
Homage to Catalonia
Buy on AmazonBut I've conflated 'Homage to Catalonia' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' while making fun of young people for not reading, which is utterly embarrassing. So it's quite all right.
Episode: Center-Left COLLAPSE As Trudeau Faces RESIGNATION Calls
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Buy on AmazonNow rewind to Vietnam; all the people who feel nostalgic have this Cronkite book behind me. People should go and read it because the news has always been fake; it's just that now you know it's fake.
Kids for cash
Buy on AmazonThey called this man— I remember covering this case—it was the 'Kids for Cash.'
Industrial Society and Its Future
Buy on AmazonThe Times published the entire Unabomber manifesto, so...
Episode: Media CAUGHT Hiding Luigi Mangione Manifesto, Photo
The antitrust paradox
Buy on AmazonWhat she said on Hasan's show is one of the reasons conservatives don't like her, as Rachel Bard has talked about, is that the consumer welfare standard of Robert Bork was gospel on the right for a long time.
Episode: Trump OUSTS Lina Khan As FTC Chair
Can't Hurt Me
Buy on AmazonFrom his Goodreads profile, he had a couple of books listed He had David Goggins' 'Can't Hurt Me' and also some books indicating his interest in addressing back pain, including 'Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery', 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance', and 'Back Mechanic' by Dr. Stuart McGill
Episode: CEO KILLER CAUGHT: WILD Online Past
The Shock Doctrine
Buy on AmazonCrucially, whereas Trump's ascendance in the Republican Party has come from bucking austerity politics, Elon and his cadre are fans of anarcho-capitalist leader Javier Milei and his Shock Doctrine approach. Now, if you're a billionaire, of course, what's not to love about Milei?
Episode: Jon Stewart, Bernie SOUND OFF On Trump Billionaire Agenda
Mao Tŝe-tung's quotations
Buy on AmazonGo read some Mao; like you think that any of those revolutionaries would be tolerating this level of indiscipline when they actually believe that their revolution is important, is so important that it is going to save humanity?
Episode: Trump Floats REPLACING Pete Hegseth w/Ron DeSantis For Pentagon
If I Must Die
Buy on AmazonNext week, on Tuesday, there's a book called 'If I Must Die,' which is Ratallah's posthumously published book of prose and poems.
Episode: CHAOS As South Korea President Declares MARTIAL LAW
A biography of James A. Garfield
Buy on AmazonAnyway, I don't know a lot about Garfield; I do have a biography of him on my shelf, though, which is interesting.
The Constitution of the United States and related documents
Buy on AmazonIf you read the Constitution, there is no such thing as an independent agency, and yet there it is.
Episode: Matt Stoller VS Marc Andreesen On DEBANKING Rogan Claims
Black Beauty
Buy on AmazonRyan writes about this in his book as a very organic, genuinely bottom-up way.