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Dave Rubin's book list: the books mentioned on The Rubin Report
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Most recommended on The Rubin Report
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Don't Burn This Book
Dave Rubin's book Don't Burn This Book was frequently discussed and recommended across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report in 2020. Guests including Yeonmi Park, Candace Owens, Andrew Klavan, Douglas Murray, and Michael Knowles praised the book for its exploration of classical liberalism and independent thought. Host Dave Rubin also promoted the title for pre-order and discussed its themes with various interviewees throughout the series.
Discussed“I'm like, I was learning that from reading your book, the first of book, "Don't Burn This Book", right? Like what it means to be a classic liberal.”
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand's novel 'Atlas Shrugged' was referenced across several episodes of The Rubin Report to explore themes of entrepreneurship, societal dependence on builders, and objectivism. Guests such as Michael Malice and Jason Calacanis invoked the book to describe the heavy burdens carried by business creators and the societal reliance on them. Other guests, including Nick Gillespie and Michael Shermer, reminisced about encountering the novel during their college years, with Gillespie noting he knew the plot primarily through the film adaptations.
Discussed“Like, are we like, is this Atlas Shrugged? Who do you think built society, right?”
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12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life was frequently mentioned across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report by host Dave Rubin and guest Jordan Peterson. Rubin discussed reading the book while touring with Peterson, citing its message on personal responsibility—such as cleaning your room before trying to change the world—while Peterson compared its structure and themes to his subsequent releases.
Discussed“All right, now to the book, because happiness is a big topic, and I was thinking as I was flipping through it before, there's something interesting about writing a book about happiness, 'cause it puts a lot of pressure on the author, sort of the way I always felt that Jordan was under a lot of pressure by writing "12”
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1984
George Orwell's novel 1984 came up frequently on The Rubin Report. Michael Knowles mentioned the book while discussing media language manipulation, while Dinesh D'Souza drew parallels between it and the implementation of a police state. Dave Rubin used it to describe California acting as a sanctuary state for child gender transitions. Richard Dreyfuss cited it as a brilliant book children should not fear, and Matthew Tyrmand used it to illustrate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's superstate goals. Eckhart Tolle referenced it to explain totalitarian demands for absurd beliefs, Ben Shapiro discussed Orwell's description of the Soviet Union, and Yeonmi Park mentioned reading it after leaving North Korea.
Discussed“Some of it is hidden, to be sure, but some of it, even outside the government, is almost reminiscent of Orwell in '1984'. It talks about the fact that Big Brother has an inner party and an outer party.”
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill's classic work On Liberty was discussed and recommended across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Host Dave Rubin frequently mentioned keeping a copy of the book on his nightstand, bringing it up to express agreement with guests like Ted Cruz and to emphasize the importance of free speech. Guests such as Chris Freiman recommended the book as a premier defense of free speech and noted that he travels with it, while Brandon Turner cited it for its relevance to free expression. Other guests, including Yeonmi Park and Nadine Strossen, referenced Mill's essays while discussing social pressure, government coercion, and personal reading preferences.
Discussed“And they were like, "What do you like?" I said, "I love to read Bastiat's, 'The Law', John Stuart Mill, 'On Liberty'."”
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Holy Bible (NIV)
The 'Holy Bible (NIV)' was discussed on The Rubin Report by guests including Andrew Klavan, David M. Friedman, Russell Brand, and Emily Austin. The speakers reflected on the enduring cultural and historical significance of the text, its profound exploration of the human condition in the book of Genesis, and the personal comfort and spiritual grounding it offers readers.
Discussed“The more I look at literal gospel Christianity from the good book itself, the more it's somehow unraveling, melting away, throwing out my preconceptions, my arid, ardent, severe sense of materialism and replacing it with a certainty only in love—a certainty only in our ability to have a relationship with an indwelling God that died for us.”
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Quran
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and various guests discussed Islamic texts and theology, referencing the Quran in comparison with other sacred literature like Sahih al-Bukhari. Guests such as Imam Tawhidi, Dinesh D'Souza, and Tommy Robinson analyzed varying interpretations of the Quran's passages across Mecca and Medina, addressing historical controversies, violence, and the differing ways modern communities read the scripture.
Discussed“I sat on solitary confinement doing a I' done 22 weeks 2011 for my work for my for for the different things I was doing and I sat there and someone sent me the Quran. And I'd challenge any of you to do this. Get the Quran, open it up, and every time you find a verse that speaks derogatory”
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was brought up on The Rubin Report by guests and hosts such as Robert Kiyosaki, Brendan O'Neill, James Lindsay, Liz Wheeler, Dave Rubin, and Yanis Varoufakis. Robert Kiyosaki discussed holding the book up at an event to challenge teachers, while Brendan O'Neill recommended it to viewers, noting its early praise of the capitalist class. Other participants referenced the text to explore historical opposition to communism, discuss tactical alignments, and examine Marx's ideas on disruptive technologies.
Discussed“the point is to destabilize but it's actually on the last page of the communist manifesto why this is the case so all the way back Karl Marx Frederick Engles 1848 they publish you know a few sentences down is, you know, workers of the world unite.”
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Irreversible Damage
Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" was featured on multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Host Dave Rubin and guests like Riley Gaines and Peter Boghossian discussed the book while exploring the social contagion surrounding young girls identifying as transgender and the systemic failures of psychiatric and psychological fields. Shrier also appeared as a guest to discuss the themes of her work regarding gender confusion.
Recommended“Abigail Shri wrot wrote an incredible book called irreversible damage about just that that there's a social contagion element to this where suddenly because so many kids are being taught taught in seventh grade health class that you can change your gender”
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Bible
Discussed“and just as you know the poor Israelites you know go through this cycle dozens of times through the through the books of the Bible”
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Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now was discussed across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Host Dave Rubin frequently recommended and referenced the book between 2018 and 2026 to support discussions on societal progress and positive global trends. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar discussed translating the book to spread enlightenment values, while Ben Shapiro referenced Pinker's perspective on human nature. Conversely, Russell Brand critiqued the book's premise regarding poverty reduction and continuous societal improvement during a 2023 appearance.
Discussed“And you know, his new book, Enlightenment Now, is that things are trending more positively. But even hearing that is is very hard for a lot of people.”
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
The Rubin Report featured Peter Boghossian's book A Manual for Creating Atheists across several episodes from 2015 to 2023. Dave Rubin enthusiastically recommended the book during interviews, praising it as a clear and incisive take on critical thinking and the dangers of faith-based thinking. Rubin later referenced the book when discussing the author's past work in the atheist movement, his perspectives on secularism and postmodernism, and his subsequent ideological shift toward evangelical Christians and people of faith.
Discussed“He wrote a book called "A Manual for Creating Atheists." And now most of his friends are usually, well, certainly people of faith, but mostly evangelical Christians, I think.”
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The Virtue of Nationalism
Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism was discussed across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report between 2019 and 2020. Host Dave Rubin, alongside guests like Michael Shermer and Bryan Dean Wright, referenced the book to debate the definitions and merits of nationalism. They used Hazony's arguments to explore themes of national sovereignty, strong democratic nation-states, border security, and how nations set their own laws.
Discussed“The book that I reference in the chapter, "The Virtue of Nationalism" by Yoram Hazony his whole argument is that every nation should be able to set it's own laws”
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Ready Player One
Across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin and guests such as Dan Farah and Tom Bilyeu referenced Ernest Cline's book and film, Ready Player One. The speakers used the work as a dystopian reference point to discuss the future impacts of technology, social media, gaming, and the human tendency to escape into virtual realities within the metaverse.
Discussed“you were one of the producers of Ready Player One, a movie and a book that I read many many years ago, but a movie that I reference all the time on this show”
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The Federalist papers
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, James Madison, and John Jay came up across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Guests including Andrew Klavan, Yaron Brook, Niall Ferguson, John Anderson, and Mike Munger discussed the texts to highlight the foundational American Enlightenment ideals, separation of powers, and the founders' deep insights into human nature.
Discussed“I mean, if you read the Federalist Papers, yeah, you say like, 'Oh, these guys knew everything know. They knew all the basics about who people are, what they're like.' The the insight into humanity on any page of the Federalist Papers is so much deeper than anything you'll read over 50 days in in our press.”
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf was mentioned across several episodes of The Rubin Report by guests and host Dave Rubin in various historical and political contexts. Josh Hammer referenced the text in 2025 while discussing historical anti-Semitism, and Tucker Carlson brought it up in 2021 during a conversation about the breadth of free expression. In 2021, James Lindsay discussed reading the work as part of a hoax paper experiment. Earlier, in 2020, Glenn Beck displayed a copy owned by Claus von Stauffenberg to argue that book ownership does not define a person's actions, while Michael Malice touched upon the 1990s debate surrounding the censorship of the book.
Discussed“Hitler I mean he had a whole book on this Minecon but people had just done the reading”
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Alex Epstein's book 'The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels' was discussed on The Rubin Report by host Dave Rubin across multiple episodes. Rubin recommended the book and reviewed its central thesis with guests, noting that Epstein argues fossil fuels have been a positive force for the advancement of mankind and remain an optimal source of energy for human prosperity.
Discussed“when I had Alex Epstein on and wrote a book called the moral case for fossil fuels”
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Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind was referenced on The Rubin Report by guests Stephen Blackwood, Douglas Murray, and Janice Fiamengo. Blackwood and Murray cited the 1985 book to discuss long-standing critiques and pre-existing diagnoses of problems in American higher education. Janice Fiamengo brought up Bloom's work to illustrate the historical decline of the university's purpose, noting his claim that professors lost faith in the idea of the university as a separate space dedicated purely to thought.
Discussed“then you can look at the closing of American mind Alan bloom in 1985”
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Contact
Dave Rubin brought up Carl Sagan's only work of fiction, Contact, across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Recalling personal experiences of watching the film adaptation starring Jodie Foster while under the influence of marijuana, Rubin explained how the mind-blowing opening panorama of the universe inspired him to read many of Carl Sagan's books. Jordan Belfort also joined Rubin to praise both the movie and the book, reflecting on its philosophical themes and cultural impact.
Discussed“I ate some pot brownies and then went to see the movie "Contact" by the great science communicator, Carl Sagan.”
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The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom was discussed on The Rubin Report by guests Larry Sharpe, Abby Hall, Austin Petersen, and Carl Benjamin between 2016 and 2018. The speakers referenced the book to explore libertarian principles, the dangers of central planning, and why undesirable politicians rise to power.
Discussed“I read the word Road to Serfdom I began to read those afterwards but they were easy for me to understand”
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The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray's book The Madness of Crowds came up multiple times on The Rubin Report. Host Dave Rubin recommended and promoted the book at the end of interviews, and referenced it when speaking with guest Heather Mac Donald about identity politics. Author Douglas Murray also brought up his work to explain how he observed societal derangement developing years prior.
Discussed“I wrote about what I regard as being this sort, of crowd derangement in my previous book in the 'Madness of Crowds'.”
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, came up across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. Guests and hosts referenced the work in various historical and political contexts. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar mentioned reading it while growing up in Iraq to understand foundational American political philosophy. Dave Rubin cited reading it while off the grid to emphasize honest political speech, Newt Gingrich highlighted its role in explaining the Revolutionary War to everyday people, and C. Bradley Thompson compared its massive historical impact to John Adams's political writings.
Discussed“So like, when all of that civil wars was happening, I was sitting at home reading Thomas Jefferson and "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine and "Common Sense" and stuff like that.”
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The Torah
The Torah was discussed across episodes of The Rubin Report. In the May 21, 2024 episode, guest Ashira Solomon referenced a Torah portion to describe Moses asking God for entry into the land. In the April 10, 2022 episode, guest David Mamet shared his personal journey of studying the Torah and linked it to his exploration of his Jewish identity.
Discussed“When considering Moses, the greatest prophet in Judaism, he didn’t get to enter the land as one of the Torah portions describes; he asked God if he'd be allowed entry just to see it, and God said no.”
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The Strange Death of Europe
Douglas Murray's book The Strange Death of Europe was discussed on The Rubin Report by host Dave Rubin and author Douglas Murray across multiple episodes. Rubin and Murray explored the origins and meaning of the book's title, using the work to discuss long-standing warnings regarding immigration, post-war policies, and the changing culture and civilization of Britain and Europe.
Discussed“You've been talking about all this for a long time. Uh strange death of Europe and you know at least a decade you've been on all of this.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and various guests, including Michael Shellenberger, Nicholas Christakis, and Jordan Peterson, referenced Viktor E. Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning. The speakers cited Frankl's survival of Nazi concentration camps to illustrate psychological resilience, internal control during severe crises, and how individuals can avoid participating in destructive collective actions.
Discussed“Who's famous because he wrote a book called "Man's Search for Meaning," and he's one of the original humanistic psychologists of the 1960s.”
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Zero to One
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin, Blake Masters, and David Sacks discussed Peter Thiel and Blake Masters's book Zero to One, exploring its core premises on building entirely new things, avoiding societal stagnation, and distinguishing between monopolies and commodities.
Discussed“I think Blake, Blake Masters, who you co-wrote "Zero to One" with, I think his line on China was we thought that we would make China more like us basically by having a conversation with China about what's going on with the world.”
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Don't Burn This Country
Dave Rubin's book Don't Burn This Country was featured on The Rubin Report. Michael Knowles introduced Rubin and recommended the book at the end of the episode, while Karol Markowicz brought it up during a discussion on forced conformity. Additionally, Dave Rubin referenced his accompanying book tour during a conversation with Andrew Klavan.
Discussed“I know you mentioned this in your book, "Don't Burn This Country", which I read.”
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin discussed Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz across multiple episodes. Rubin initially introduced the book when interviewing Nawaz, praising its constructive approach to discussing religion, and later referenced it to defend the authors against bad-faith attacks during a discussion with Peter Boghossian.
Discussed“their book was was about Islam in the future of Tolerance not Islam in the future of nuclear war”
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Second Treatise of Government
On The Rubin Report, guests Allen West and Brandon Turner brought up John Locke's Second Treatise of Government in discussions concerning political philosophy and natural rights. Allen West mentioned the book in December 2021 and July 2019 to emphasize that fundamental human rights like life, liberty, and property originate from a creator rather than a government. Brandon Turner also referenced the text in April 2017 to explain Locke's seventeenth-century views as foundational to the classical liberal tradition.
Discussed“Your rights don't come from an entity called government, your life, your liberty, your property, as John Locke talk about in the "Second Treatise of Government," and your pursuit of happiness.”
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The Bell Curve
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guests Claire Lehmann and Stefan Molyneux discussed the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The participants brought up the book while examining historical discussions around group IQ differences and the intense public backlash faced by public figures who waded into these topics.
Discussed“So and isn't the most crazy part of that, and you lay this out in the book actually, that when decent people like Sam Harris, for example, try to wade into this discussion as he did with Charles Murray of the Bell Curve, the way that he then gets attacked as if he's a race realist or something thing like”
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The Gulag Archipelago
On The Rubin Report, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was referenced by several guests. Dinesh D'Souza used the book to illustrate the role of surveillance in police states. David Frum recounted being given the paperback edition as a birthday present by his mother during his summer holiday at age fourteen and discussed how it impacted him. Jordan Peterson mentioned the work to explain how totalitarian regimes pervade society with lies.
Discussed“as interesting scene in the opening pages of Soul n's Gulag where he talks about a woman who goes into a market and her friends tell her you're on a list you need to leave now”
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Fiddler on the Roof
The musical and book Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock was referenced in various contexts on The Rubin Report. David Zucker used a line from the show to explain studio trust in director Seth MacFarlane. Konstantin Kisin invoked the work when discussing traditional Jewish jokes and the tragedy of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and Dave Rubin quoted a memorable line regarding the chosen people.
Discussed“And so I think when he came in, they figure, you know, it's that like that line in Fiddler on the Roof, when you're rich, they think you really know.”
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God and Man at Yale
On The Rubin Report, guests Stephen Blackwood and Michael Knowles discussed William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale. In 2024 and 2023, Stephen Blackwood brought up the book as an early text and urtext criticizing higher education, noting it demonstrates that modern college problems are not new. In 2021, Michael Knowles mentioned the book while discussing the history of academic freedom and Buckley launching the modern conservative movement.
Discussed“one of the earth Texs of criticizing higher education is is William F Buckley's God and man at Yale written the early early 1950s”
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The 1619 Project
On The Rubin Report, hosts and guests discussed The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine critically. Dave Rubin asked Kevin McCarthy whether public school education had been compromised by the project's historical narrative, Megyn Kelly accused the publication of quietly altering its content regarding slavery and America's founding, and Andrew Klavan criticized the work upon its receipt of a Pulitzer Prize.
Critiqued“- So is that education fundamentally? I mean, is that why we have to get the schools back more than anything else, because people believe now that 1619 project was, you know, the true the story of America? - They tried to recreate our history.”
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand came up on The Rubin Report across multiple episodes. In February 2019, host Dave Rubin explicitly mentioned the title of Rand's well-known book, The Virtue of Selfishness, while introducing a discussion with Onkar Ghate and Tara Smith about selfishness. In October 2017, Michael Malice mentioned on the show that he owned a collectible first edition of The Fountainhead that had belonged to Ayn Rand. Additionally, in May 2016, Yaron Brook discussed The Fountainhead while detailing the history of Ayn Rand's literary career, noting that the novel had been rejected by twelve publishers before finally becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller.
Discussed“we're going to be talking about selfishness and the virtue of selfishness”
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The Moral Arc
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin and Michael Shermer discussed Shermer's book The Moral Arc during conversations about historical progress and the evolution of society. Rubin recalled a previous appearance where they examined how the arc of progress bends, referencing the 2015 book that sits in his studio.
Discussed“Ah, the moral arc. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.”
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
On The Rubin Report, Michael Shermer and Nicholas Christakis discussed The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper across multiple interviews between April 2019 and May 2020. Michael Shermer brought up Popper's work to examine the paradox of tolerance and the responsibilities of free societies, while Nicholas Christakis referenced the book to analyze how open societies can remain vulnerable to internal destruction.
Discussed“I'm a big pro free speech idea and tolerance, is Carl Poppers "Open Society."”
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Trump: The Art of the Deal
On The Rubin Report, guest Bill O'Reilly brought up Donald Trump's book The Art of the Deal. O'Reilly referenced the book to explain Trump's negotiating tactics, rhetoric, and unpredictable communication style. Other guests, such as Mike Cernovich, also briefly alluded to Trump writing about his marketing and business approach.
Discussed“I just think he is what he is. He likes to surprise people. He uses colorful language. I don't read into it too much other than it's exactly what Art of the Deal is, which is you say some crazy things and see what happens.”
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Unmasked
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin and guest Andy Ngo discussed Ngo's book 'Unmasked' in February 2021. Rubin introduced Ngo as a journalist covering Antifa protests and strongly recommended the book to listeners at the end of the episode. Ngo explained that the book relied on leaked public documents from Rose City Antifa and covered online coordination methods and Kamala Harris's actions. Rubin later brought up the book again in March 2021 while discussing Winston Marshall.
Recommended“He's the one who dared to recommended Andy Ngo's scary book about Antifa.”
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Robert Kiyosaki discussed Kiyosaki's bestselling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Kiyosaki reflected on the 1997 publication of the book, recounting how it was initially rejected by New York publishers and explaining how it originated from his childhood experiences. He also highlighted the book's unique focus on financial statements and its connection to the CASHFLOW board game he created, while occasionally drawing parallels between the book's themes and contemporary controversies.
Discussed“Dave, this is the story of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" magnified 1000%.”
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Nation of Victims
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Vivek Ramaswamy discussed Ramaswamy's book Nation of Victims during an episode in September 2022. Rubin introduced the guest and the book at the beginning of the interview, while Ramaswamy explained that unfinished research from his previous work led him to write about the cultural victimhood mindset and the death of merit. Additional guests, such as Francis Suarez, also mentioned reading Ramaswamy's published works during conversations on the program.
Discussed“I read his books, and so I didn’t would not have guessed personally, you know, that Vivek would have—and again, no shade on him; he's a super successful guy.”
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Waking Up
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Zoltan Istvan discussed Sam Harris's book Waking Up. Rubin mentioned quoting the book frequently and asked about Harris's approach to maintaining a spiritual life and reason without adhering to traditional religious fundamentalism.
Recommended“yeah it sounds a lot like uh the book by Sam Harris who's one of my one of my favorite oh the book's right there Sam Harris waking up a GU I quote it I quote it often oh there you go a guide to spirituality without religion”
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's Animal Farm came up across multiple episodes of The Rubin Report. In an episode from April 2023, guest Richard Dreyfuss mentioned the book while arguing that great works should not be feared or dismissed due to the political beliefs of their authors. In a November 2020 interview, defector Yeonmi Park discussed reading George Orwell's work after escaping to South Korea, noting how she related to the characters and comparing state media narratives to the beginning of the book.
Discussed“and I and I don't want anyone to really care if you're a communist and you've written a brilliant book like Animal Farm or 1984. do you really think you're gonna be poisoning the the brains of your children”
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Crime and Punishment
On The Rubin Report, guest Andrew Klavan discussed Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment at length. Klavan shared that the novel profoundly changed his life when he was nineteen years old, noting that it was inspired by a historical French murder and serves as a psychological exploration of an exceptionalist killer.
Discussed“This inspires Dostoevsky to write the book Crime and Punishment, one of the greatest novels ever written, which which essentially is about a guy who thinks that he is special and therefore he can commit a murder.”
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God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens's book God Is Not Great was discussed on The Rubin Report. Guest Michael Shermer mentioned the book while debating topics related to God and morality, noting that Hitchens engaged with these ideas and cited Prager. Additionally, a show guest named Marco recalled reading the book as an English lesson and part of his journey toward atheism after discovering new atheist debates.
Discussed“well hitch still dealt with this in his book God is not great”
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Hillbilly Elegy
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin and guest J.D. Vance discussed Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Vance and Rubin talked about the public reaction to the book, its depiction of Vance's grandmother, and how readers interpreted the memoir as a political insight into working-class voters and the rise of Donald Trump, despite Vance noting that the book did not explicitly focus on presidential politics.
Discussed“what's important is one he his his political identity is from hillbilly elegy you know he's speaking to people from the Rust Belt he's from Ohio spent a lot of time in Appalachia”
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins's book The Selfish Gene was discussed on The Rubin Report by guests Bret Weinstein and Michael Shermer. Weinstein identified the work as a major theoretical milestone in evolutionary biology that successfully introduced cultural evolution and the concept of the meme in chapter eleven, while Shermer and Dennis Prager referenced the text during a conversation on science and human morality.
Discussed“but the last piece of theoretical progress actually involves Dawkins Selfish Gene we essentially encapsulates a synthesis that does lots of things including brings a proper theory of cultural evolution online... so to the extent that we did not have a way of discussing cultural evolution prior to the Selfish Gene Dawkins introduction of the concept of memes”
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Manufacturing consent
On The Rubin Report, Jimmy Dore brought up Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent to criticize mainstream media consolidation and corporate influence. Later, Michael Malice also mentioned Noam Chomsky having a book on manufacturing consent while discussing how media elites control public narratives.
Discussed“how do we manufacture consent and Noam Chomsky, who's a fellow anarchist of mine, had a book on this subject”
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The History of the Future
On The Rubin Report, James O'Keefe recommended Blake Harris's book The History of the Future in May 2019, encouraging viewers to read the account of Palmer Luckey and Facebook. Later in September 2019, host Dave Rubin hosted the author himself, introducing the book to the audience and discussing its exploration of Oculus, Facebook, and the virtual reality revolution.
Discussed“so first off your next book which is your new book the history of the future”
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The Parasitic Mind
Gad Saad's book "The Parasitic Mind" was mentioned on The Rubin Report. Dave Rubin recommended and linked to the book at the conclusion of his October 18, 2020 interview with the author. Later, on August 1, 2025, Eckhart Tolle referenced the book twice during an interview to illustrate how human minds can be invaded by toxic thoughts and disconnected from reality.
Discussed“You you probably read in with reference to contemporary culture, Gats wrote the book uh the parasitic mind, very good book. So he he talks about how the human mind can be invaded by toxic thoughts that are that cut you off completely from reality.”
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The Rational Bible: Genesis
Dennis Prager's book series The Rational Bible: Genesis was featured on The Rubin Report. In October 2022, Dave Rubin introduced Prager as the author of the new volume, while Prager enthusiastically recommended the book to the audience, promising it would change their lives. Prager later returned to the show in September 2026 to discuss how his multi-volume Bible commentary series was studied by Charlie Kirk.
Discussed“And he listened to all 250 hours of my Bible commentary, which I've expanded and edited and now published in five volumes of the Rational Bible.”
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was discussed on The Rubin Report by guest C. Bradley Thompson. Thompson referenced the book while examining the intellectual origins of the American Founding and explaining the key influences on John Adams during his time at Harvard, noting how the work introduced the possibility of a secular science of ethics.
Discussed“And Sir Isaac Newton in his Principia Mathematica, and John Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
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Brave New World
On The Rubin Report, guests referenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World between 2016 and 2018 to illustrate various dystopian concerns. Rabbi Wolpe mentioned the book when discussing societal control and basic needs in relation to China, while Brendan O'Neill used the novel to describe the dangers of an authoritarian state obsessed with citizen happiness. Zoltan Istvan also referenced Brave New World to describe a future scenario where technological augmentation creates severe societal inequality.
Discussed“ya know in brave new world which I have to say I think about all the time as I read about China”
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Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House was discussed on The Rubin Report by guest James O'Keefe, who critiqued the book's reliance on anonymous sources and hearsay. Additionally, Kim Klacik referenced comments attributed to Woodward during an exchange regarding the government's initial handling of the coronavirus.
Discussed“kim excuse me i have to say something to you he told bob woodward that it was a very serious issue and it's airborne and that it was terrible”
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The God Delusion
On The Rubin Report, Michael Shermer, Peter Boghossian, and Dave Rubin mentioned Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion. The participants discussed the immense publishing success of the book in 2006, its impact on the atheist and humanist movement, and Dawkins's ongoing views regarding religion and society.
Discussed“then there was Dawkins book um The God Delusion became besteller in 2006 and there was kind of a split in the atheist and and humanist”
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The Law
On The Rubin Report, guests Yeonmi Park and Larry Sharpe discussed Frédéric Bastiat's book The Law. Park listed it among the books she loved reading upon moving to America, while Sharpe cited it as his favorite book after joining the Libertarian Party.
Discussed“And they were like, "What do you like?" I said, "I love to read Bastiat's, 'The Law', John Stuart Mill, 'On Liberty'."”
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Bad Therapy
On The Rubin Report, Ashley St. Clair brought up Abigail Shrier's book Bad Therapy to discuss the mental health crisis and societal pressures facing Gen Z. During a separate episode, host Dave Rubin also referred to Shrier's work when discussing controversy and hot topics related to teenagers.
Recommended“Yes, so Abigail Shrier actually just came out with a fantastic book, "Bad Therapy."”
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Free Speech
Nadine Strossen's book Free Speech was featured across different episodes of The Rubin Report. Robby Soave brought up the book while discussing the history of the American Civil Liberties Union and significant free speech cases. Later, as the episode wrapped up, Dave Rubin recommended the book directly to the audience.
Discussed“Skokie case obviously is the big one 803 2177.6 maybe in stress in her book hate 804 2178.7 yeah 805 2179.2 you know 806 2180.0 - it's like and she's Saturday by the way 807 2182.1 I'm not bad 808 2181.3 no 809 2181.6 she's incredible 810 2183.3 but she's not work”
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Adios, America
On The Rubin Report, Michael Malice discussed Ann Coulter's book Adios, America and its influence as a major book of the 2016 election cycle. Separately, the host Kathy Young also mentioned the anti-immigration book while discussing immigration politics and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Discussed“and I discussed her ID as a length because her book audios America was probably the most influential book of the 2016 election cycle”
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Anthem
Ayn Rand's novella 'Anthem' was discussed in two episodes of The Rubin Report. On May 6, 2016, Yaron Brook mentioned the book while detailing Ayn Rand's early publishing challenges in the United States and its eventual UK release. Later, on May 31, 2020, Matt Kibbe told host Dave Rubin that he discovered and devoured 'Anthem' after noticing Rand's name on a Rush album.
Discussed“I had no idea who that dude Ayn Rand was, but she had such an interesting name. I went out and stumbled across an old copy of her novella Anthem and I devoured it.”
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Areopagitica
On The Rubin Report, Winston Marshall and Michael Knowles both referenced John Milton and his famous work Areopagitica. Winston Marshall brought up the author and his treatise while discussing the historical roots of free speech philosophers in Britain. Later, Michael Knowles similarly cited Milton's text during a conversation concerning the historical limits and defenses of free speech in the English language.
Discussed“we have philosophers like John Loch John Stuart Mill John Milton with ero Pago”
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Bowling Alone
On The Rubin Report, Nathan Finochio appeared in the July 19, 2020 episode titled Gen Z Finding God & Woke Politics Dividing Churches, where he mentioned Robert D. Putnam's 1990s sociological book Bowling Alone to illustrate the historical erosion of community in America, starting with bowling leagues. Later, on the December 19, 2018 episode Bishop And A Rabbi Discuss Religion, Rabbi David Wolpe also brought up the book to argue that modern society continues to experience that same growing trend of isolation and loneliness.
Discussed“Yeah, absolutely, I remember there was a book written in the '90s by a guy named Putnam, the title was "Bowling Alone." And it sort of was a sociological book, just looking at the erosion of community in America, beginning with the bowling leagues.”
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Das Capital Volume One
On The Rubin Report, John Lennox shared a personal story about his father giving him Karl Marx's Das Capital Volume One to read when he was thirteen. Later on the same podcast, Milo Yiannopoulos brought up Marx's work to criticize modern university curricula and left-wing faculty.
Discussed“I remember when I was about 13, my father came along, he says, "Here's a book you need to read." It was Marx's "Das Kapital." I said, "Dad, have you read it?" He said, "No." "So why should I read it?" "You need to know what other people think."”
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Democracy in America
Niall Ferguson and Brandon Turner both referenced Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America on The Rubin Report. Ferguson cited the work in June 2020 to illustrate the historical American tradition of civic problem-solving without government intervention, while Turner discussed the two-volume masterwork in April 2017 to explore Tocqueville's observations on American associational life and democratic society.
Discussed“What Tocqueville noticed, the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville, when he came to the United States before writing his great book, Democracy in America, was that Americans then, did not expect the government to solve their problems.”
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Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell's book 'Discrimination and Disparities' was referenced on The Rubin Report. Guest Brandon Tatum brought up the book to discuss the concept of disparities versus discrimination, and host Dave Rubin also referenced it while questioning how to address racial disparities.
Discussed“and he wrote a book called discrimination and disparities um i may have it backwards despairing discrimination”
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Harry Potter
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin brought up J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books to illustrate a concept regarding how fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.
Discussed“if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right I will frequently write an author if I really like their I might be fiction or whatever you know or a singer a performer I really like that's”
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
On The Rubin Report, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was brought up in different interview contexts. In a 2019 episode featuring Onkar Ghate and Tara Smith, a speaker used Rowling as an example of an extraordinarily successful creator who generated immense value and pleasure for others while benefiting financially. In a 2018 episode with Gregg Hurwitz, the host mentioned Jordan Peterson's frequent use of Harry Potter and other fictional stories, such as Pinocchio, to extract underlying truths from narrative fiction.
Discussed“if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right”
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Matrix
The book or film concept of Matrix was referenced on The Rubin Report by guests and hosts discussing dystopian futures and utopian definitions. Tom Bilyeu brought up the Matrix to illustrate his definition of utopia and how human fulfillment connects to struggle. Dave Rubin also mentioned the Matrix while discussing dystopian visions and dark futures alongside works like Ready Player One and Minority Report with guest Alex Stein.
Discussed“Define a Utopia in the way the Matrix does where they talk about the machines are like we built a perfect world for you and you all rejected it”
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
On The Rubin Report, Dr. Drew Pinsky referenced Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to criticize public misconceptions about modern mental health care, arguing that people mistakenly view custodial care as depicted in the book and film as a documentary. Ben Shapiro also mentioned the title on the podcast while discussing the history of mental illness.
Discussed“And we can do custodial care cuz people watch one flu over the cuckoo's nest and they first of all think they're seeing a documentary. Secondly, Ken Keyzy wrote that thing in 1959, 75 years ago.”
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire was brought up on The Rubin Report. In July 2023, Liz Wheeler mentioned the book while discussing social emotional learning as a form of Marxist indoctrination. Later, in July 2026, James Lindsay referenced the book to explain totalitarian educational strategies and noted the author's derivation of those concepts from Mao Zedong's cultural revolution.
Discussed“in Paulo Freed's pedagogy of the oppressed he's talking about this as like an educational program and then he says in a footnote in the first chapter he says I derived this from literally I derived this from Maoong's cultural revolution”
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Rules for Radicals
On The Rubin Report, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals was discussed by different guests and the host. In April 2023, Dave Rubin brought up the book to compare political opponents accusing each other of actions they are currently committing, remarking that it came right out of Alinsky's work. In May 2019, guest James O'Keefe mentioned that he had read the book in college and used its teachings to learn tactics for exposing hypocrisy.
Discussed“Isn't it funny that, I mean, that's right outta rules for radicals, that you're supposed to accuse the others of what you are doing.”
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Skeptic
Skeptic by Michael Shermer was discussed on The Rubin Report across two separate appearances by the author. In January 2018, Dave Rubin mentioned the new book while welcoming Shermer back to the show. Earlier, in January 2016, Rubin brought up the book during a discussion about Shermer's magazine and website of the same name, highlighting the physical copy on the program.
Discussed“you've got a new book coming out I was saying to you right before you started you're the only guest that has two books all right moral or skeptic”
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
On The Rubin Report, Thomas Sowell referenced Steven Pinker's work on violence trends, specifically pointing out the u-turn in Western homicide rates during the 1960s. In another episode, Steven Pinker explicitly mentioned his book The Better Angels of Our Nature while discussing the historical decline of violence.
Discussed“that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky came up on The Rubin Report across multiple episodes. In a 2026 episode, Arthur Brooks mentioned reading Dostoevsky's novel as an example of meaningful leisure that is not done for work. Earlier, in a 2022 episode, Douglas Murray brought up the book to illustrate an insight about gratitude and resentment, specifically noting a passage where the devil appears.
Discussed“He would say that me going to mass as a Catholic is a leisure activity. That me reading a book, you know, you know, reading the brother's Kamazov, which I don't have to read for work, that would be a form of leisure as well.”
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The Diversity Myth
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin mentioned The Diversity Myth, which David Sacks co-authored with Peter Thiel in 1995. Rubin brought up the book to discuss how Sacks and Thiel had predicted modern ideological trends, and later episodes also touched on its long-term relevance to contemporary issues.
Discussed“- Yeah so you mentioned "The Diversity Myth" and I've talked to Peter on the show and you guys wrote this book, 1995.”
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The End of History and the Last Man
On The Rubin Report, Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man was discussed by guests and the host in relation to global politics. Peter Boghossian argued against the notion that history had reached a definitive endpoint, while John Anderson reflected on the rapid collapse of the post-Cold War assumption that democracy and free-market capitalism had permanently won out globally.
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 Godfather
On The Rubin Report, Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather came up in separate contexts. David Zucker mentioned the book while explaining an early alternative plot idea for a sequel to Airplane!, and Tom Bilyeu referenced the production history of the film adaptation when discussing entrepreneurship.
Discussed“And that was to Bob and Julie fly down the plane and he takes her home to meet his family and it's the Godfather.”
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The Power of Now
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin frequently referenced Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now. In August 2025, Rubin told Tolle that the book had been deeply influential in his own household and praised the author's positive impact. Years earlier, in August 2021, Rubin also brought up the massive commercial success of The Power of Now—noting its millions of sales and extensive translations—while introducing Tolle to the audience.
Discussed“And here is this. I've read the power of now and now that you've met some of my family members, you know how influential you've been in my home. And I thought and I thought, well, I guess I must be inherently doing something good if Echart sees value in this.”
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The Silence of the Lambs
On The Rubin Report, guests discussed Thomas Harris's novel The Silence of the Lambs in separate episodes. Andrew Klavan praised the book's suspense, describing how a particular scene caused him to sit straight up in bed while reading. Gregg Hurwitz brought up the novel to analyze the psychological depth of its characters and villains.
Discussed“The book of of Silence of the Lambs is actually I think as good as or not if not when I got to that scene you're talking about I was lying in bed. I actually sat up in bed.”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Rubin Report explored Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in past discussions. In May 2018, Don Boudreaux cited Smith's book as the starting point of modern scientific economics while explaining the invisible hand. Later in October 2018, Glenn Beck discussed the work alongside Smith's other writings on capitalism.
Discussed“capitalism has lost the first volume of Adam Smith the second volume is Wealth of Nations”
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Why People Believe Weird Things
On the January 31, 2026 episode of The Rubin Report titled "How to Spot Lies & Find Truth as Conspiracies Spread on Both Sides," Michael Shermer discussed his 1997 bibliography entry, Why People Believe Weird Things. Additionally, in a previous May 17, 2020 episode, guest Mike Rowe cited the same book, explaining how its exploration of cults and groups profoundly impacted his thinking.
Discussed“I don't count until Why People Believe Weird Things, my first book in 1997.”
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War on the West
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Douglas Murray discussed Murray's book 'The War on the West' in a 2022 episode. Rubin used the book's title to frame a broader conversation about cultural debates and modern societal conflicts, praising Murray's concise chapter structure. Murray explained how the book addresses global perspectives, critical race theory, and historical reparations, noting that the text also incorporates passages from Friedrich Nietzsche to examine Western civilization.
Discussed“- It is 'The War on the West.' Douglas Murray, how are you, my friend?”
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American Psycho
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin and guest Bret Easton Ellis discussed the novel American Psycho during an episode on cancel culture. Rubin brought up the book to suggest that modern internet users behave like characters from the novel, and he also recalled its initial publication controversy at Simon & Schuster as an early example of cancel culture. Bret Easton Ellis discussed the enduring popularity of the book, how the film adaptation renewed public interest, and how critics wrongly interpreted the story as a critique of Ronald Reagan rather than yuppiedom and greed.
Discussed“that "American Psycho," it's almost, to me, which, it was your third novel, right?”
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Fortitude
On the May 10, 2020 episode of The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Dan Crenshaw discussed Crenshaw's book, Fortitude. Rubin recommended the book at the end of the episode and expressed hope that conservative ideas discussed in the work would help shape the future. Crenshaw referenced the book while analyzing a Saturday Night Live controversy involving a chapter on the right sense of shame, and he shared examples of finding political middle ground. Rubin and Crenshaw also touched on how conservative ideology is woven throughout the book's perspectives.
Discussed“- It's one of the reasons actually that I'm kinda hopeful for the future when we get outta this, that some of the right ideas, that I think you're writing about in this book, will break forth.”
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Loserthink
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin welcomed guest Scott Adams to discuss his book Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America, exploring the subtitle and examining how cross-domain experiences help improve thinking and reasoning.
Discussed“Joining me today is the creator of the legendary Dilbert comic strip and the author of the new book "Loser Think".”
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Faithful Presence
Bill Haslam's book Faithful Presence: The Promise and Peril of Faith in the Public Square was featured on The Rubin Report in June 2021. Dave Rubin brought up the book to transition into a conversation about the author's faith and provided a link for viewers to purchase it at the end of the episode. Bill Haslam explained that he wrote the book to address the politicization of faith and to encourage discouraged people of faith in a divided country.
Discussed“Okay, so I want to talk about the book. The title is "Faithful Presence: The Promise and Peril of Faith in the Public Square."”
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Light of the Mind, Light of the World
On the October 16, 2024, episode of The Rubin Report, Spencer Klavan discussed his book Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith with host Dave Rubin. Klavan explained that the book's conclusion focuses on what modern science reveals about human consciousness and our place in the universe. He highlighted a central theme of the work involving Isaac Newton's discoveries, while Rubin plugged the title at the conclusion of the interview.
Discussed“uh it's an interesting title light of the Mind light of the world Illuminating science through faith”
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What's Left?
On The Rubin Report in an episode on December 11, 2015, Dave Rubin and guest Nick Cohen discussed Cohen's book What's Left?. Rubin mentioned reading the book on a plane ride to Los Angeles, and Cohen described the intense backlash and loss of jobs he faced after publishing the book in 2007, noting that the text deals directly with the Iraq War and Saddam Hussein's actions.
Recommended“on the 14-hour plane ride back to Los Angeles I read what's left by my guest this week Nick Cohen”
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Not My First Rodeo
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Kristi Noem discussed her memoir, Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, in a July 2022 interview. Rubin highlighted how the book explores Noem's childhood and personal history to explain her political beliefs. Noem clarified that the work is not primarily political, but rather a reflection of her life so far, featuring stories about working with cattle, hunting trips, and lessons from her parents that capture the lifestyle of the American West.
Discussed“So I want to dive into a bit about the book and some of the hot topics of the day and a bunch more.”
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Irresistible
On The Rubin Report on April 3, 2019, guest Bridget Phetasy discussed Adam Alter's book Irresistible during an interview with Dave Rubin. Phetasy explained that she had dived into various scientific topics and was reading Alter's work, which focuses on screen addiction. She praised the publication as brilliant and noted that it encompasses a wide range of academic and behavioral studies surrounding modern technological compulsions.
Recommended“and now I'm looking at reading this book irresistible which is all about screen addiction and all the studies and it's brilliant”
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How to Test Negative for Stupid
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin discussed How to Test Negative for Stupid with his guest, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. Rubin introduced the senator and his new book at the beginning of the interview, brought up the title and premise toward the end, and reminded the audience of the book with a link as the episode closed.
Discussed“This is the Rubin Report. I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is Louisiana Senator and author of the new book How to Test Negative for Stupid, Senator John Kennedy.”
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Killed to Order
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin and guest Jan Jekielek discussed Jekielek's book, Killed to Order. Rubin praised the work for exposing illegal organ harvesting in China, while Jekielek referenced the book's subtitle to discuss the historical development of U.S.-China relations and provided purchasing links for viewers.
Discussed“And you know, we essentially over the years built our biggest adversary, which is in the subtitle of Killed to Order.”
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The Plus
Greg Gutfeld's book The Plus was discussed on The Rubin Report in August 2020. Host Dave Rubin recommended the book to viewers who had enjoyed Gutfeld's previous work, Don't Burn This Book. Rubin also brought up The Plus while conversing with Gutfeld about how the author adapted his fitness routine during the lockdown and added a specific preface to the book to address quarantine life.
Discussed“and you wrote a book called the plus”
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The Tyranny of Big Tech
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin interviewed Senator Josh Hawley about his book The Tyranny of Big Tech. Rubin introduced the book at the beginning of the interview, asked Hawley about the controversy surrounding its publication, and revisited the title while wrapping up the conversation.
Discussed“I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the junior senator from the great State of Missouri, and the author of the new book, "The Tyranny of Big Tech" Senator Josh Hawley, welcome to the Rubin Report.”
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Truth
Michael Shermer's book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters was featured on The Rubin Report. Host Dave Rubin introduced Shermer as the founder of Skeptic Magazine and the author of the new book, briefly discussing the themes before promoting it at the conclusion of the interview.
Discussed“All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the founder of Skeptic Magazine and the author of the new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters.”
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Why Darwin Matters
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin welcomed guest Michael Shermer. While introducing the interview and promoting the guest's work, Rubin briefly referenced Shermer's contributions to skepticism and literature, naming the author's books during the conversation.
Discussed“All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the founder of Skeptic Magazine and the author of the new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters.”
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Confronting Evil
On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin discussed Confronting Evil by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer during an interview with O'Reilly. Rubin praised the book's title and straightforward premise, explored its themes regarding the moral struggle between good and evil, and connected the political ideas presented in the text to contemporary political figures in New York City.
Discussed“Uh, but Confronting Evil, I thought the title is great. It's clean. It's straightforward. And and the book is about how societies basically fall to the wrong people, the wrong ideas.”
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End of Discussion
On The Rubin Report episode released on September 1, 2017, host Dave Rubin and guest Guy Benson discussed Benson's book "End of Discussion", which was co-authored with Mary Katharine Ham. Benson explained the timing of the paperback release relative to the 2015 political landscape and detailed a specific chapter addressing gay rights, religious liberty, and his own coming out.
Discussed“so we're going to talk a lot about your book and a discussion we met briefly about 2 years ago in the after party at Real Time with Bill Maher And the hard cover had come out the the soft cover which we have right here just came out”
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For Love of Country
Tulsi Gabbard's book For Love of Country was featured during her appearance on The Rubin Report. Dave Rubin introduced her at the beginning of the interview as the author of the new book. Throughout the conversation, Gabbard referenced the text herself, mentioning it while discussing President Biden's speech at Independence Hall and explaining that every chapter is dedicated to addressing very real problems facing the country.
Discussed“joining me today is the author of the new book for love of country leave the Democrat Party behind Tulsi gabard”
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A Carlin Home Companion
On The Rubin Report, host Dave Rubin recommended Kelly Carlin's memoir A Carlin Home Companion. Rubin introduced the book at the start of the interview and advised viewers to check it out at the end of the episode, noting that it details her journey growing up as the daughter of George and Brenda Carlin.
Recommended“her new book a Carlin Home Companion tells her journey growing up as the daughter of George and Brenda Carlin”
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The other 437 books mentioned on The Rubin Report, ranked, with the latest episode and time
- Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto by Jesse Ventura
- Rise by Brigitte Gabriel
- Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar
- The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
- Why Knowledge Matters by E. D. Hirsch
- Blueprint by Nicholas A. Christakis
- Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- If There Is No God by Dennis Prager
- Israel on Trial by Roy K. Altman
- Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thanksgiving by Melanie Kirkpatrick
- The Anti-Communist Manifesto by Jesse Kelly
- The Happiness Experiment by Carl B Barney
- The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
- Trump 2.0 by Sean Spicer
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Addicted to Outrage by Glenn Beck
- All You Can Do is All You Can Do, But All You Can Do is Enough! by Art Williams
- Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck
- Blackout by Candace Owens
- Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman
- Conservatism by Yoram Hazony
- Console Wars by Blake J. Harris
- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
- Futu.re by Дмитрий Глуховский
- Giving the Devil his Due by Michael Shermer
- Grassroots Tyranny by Clint Bolick
- Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl
- IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
- Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
- Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol
- Make Your Own Sunshine by Janice Dean
- Melissa by Melissa Krùger
- Newtons Principia by Sir Isaac Newton, Sir
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro
- Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy
- Pushing up People by Art Williams
- Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
- Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis Atkinson
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Little Bitcoin Book by Timi Ajiboye , Luis Buenaventura, Alex Gladstein, Lily Liu, Alexander Lloyd, Alejandro Machado, Jimmy Song Alena Vranova
- The Name of the Rose (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Umberto Eco
- The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- To Be Or Not to Be Intimidated? by Robert Ringer
- Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis
- While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park
- Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy
- Xenophon̓s Memorabilia of Socrates by Xenophon
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
- A Strange Habit of Mind by Andrew Klavan
- A World Appears by Michael Pollan
- Aesop's Fables by Aesop
- An End to Evil by David Frum, Richard Perle
- Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L. Cheney
- Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies by Lawrence M. Miller
- Black Rednecks And White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- Boomerang by Michael Lewis
- Buried by the Times by Laurel Leff
- Call the briefing! by Marlin Fitzwater
- Camelot and the Cultural Revolution by James Piereson
- Cloud Atlas by David Stephen Mitchell
- Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
- Conspiracy by Michael Shermer
- Cool it by Bjørn Lomborg
- Crooked Smile by Lainie Cohen
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
- Deception by Rand Paul
- Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
- Don't Lie to Me by Jeanine Pirro
- Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Equal Is Unfair by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
- Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry
- Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- How to Have That Difficult Conversation You've Been Avoiding by Henry Cloud, John Townsend
- How to Save the West by Spencer A. Klavan
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- In the Blood by Jack Carr
- Intellectuals by Paul Bede Johnson
- John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty by C. Bradley Thompson
- Joint Inspection of the Handling of Cases Involving Disability Hate Crime by Great Britain. HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, Great Britain. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
- Just Babies by Paul Bloom
- Killing the Killers by Bill O'Reilly
- Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
- Manhood by Josh Hawley
- MIT Libraries Collection of Geological Papers Read Before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver by Whitman Cross
- More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
- Nothing to envy by Barbara Demick
- Oh She Glows by Angela Liddon
- Omnipotent Government by Ludwig Von Mises
- Only the Strong by Tom Cotton
- Our Republican Constitution by Randy E. Barnett
- Overblown by John Mueller
- Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini
- President Kennedy by Richard Reeves
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel
- Systemantics by John Gall
- Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know by Ronald Bailey, Marian L. Tupy
- The Accidental Superpower by Mr. Peter Zeihan
- The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz
- The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
- The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox
- The Education of Children in Geographically Remote Regions Through Distance Education by Elaine Lopes
- The End of Gender by Debra Soh
- The Gift of Violence by Matt Thornton
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
- The House of Love and Death by Andrew Klavan
- The Order of the Librarians by Blake Harris
- The origins of English individualism by Alan Macfarlane
- The People Vs. Barack Obama by Ben Shapiro
- The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
- The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams by John Adams
- The Romance of Credit by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg
- Trumpocracy by David Frum
- Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
- Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution by Joshua Zhang
- Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
- With All Due Respect by Nikki R. Haley
- You Will Own Nothing by Carol Roth
- 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
- 1 Maccabees by John R. Bartlett
- 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- 2 Maccabees by Daniel R. Schwartz
- 2030 by Albert Brooks
- 2112 by Darin Graves
- 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by John Adams
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
- A Letter to Liberals : Censorship and COVID by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, Eckhart
- A Revolution of Common Sense by Scott Jennings
- About my mother by Peggy Rowe
- About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known by Peggy Rowe
- Action! by Robert Ringer
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Against Love by Laura Kipnis
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- All the Demons Are Here by Jake Tapper
- America's Cultural Revolution by Christopher F. Rufo
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
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