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Prozac nation
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
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Finnegans Wake
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iGen
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
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Born of Water and the Spirit
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The Strangest Way
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Dominion
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Frankenstein
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Bible of the Time. ...from the Big Bang to the present day...
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Dissolving Illusions
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The Wealth of Nations
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Between the World and Me
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The Denial of Death
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The Nightingale's Song
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The Soul of Prosperity
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Last Call for Bud Light
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The Color Purple
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The Trials of Masculinity
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
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Bible
The Bible was referenced across multiple episodes of The Tucker Carlson Show in 2024. Guests such as Willie Robertson, Rod Blagojevich, Glenn Beck, and Russell Brand discussed turning to the text for comfort in isolation, studying its passages, and reflecting on New Testament stories and biblical prophecies.
Discussed“And so I just tried to go through and tell stories and I pull stories from the New Testament, just conversations like especially in the Book of Acts.”
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1984
On The Tucker Carlson Show, guests and the host referenced George Orwell's '1984'. One speaker compared charges of psycholinguistic crimes used by the Ukrainian secret police to elements of the novel. Charlie Kirk recommended reading '1984' alongside other works to foster an informed population and understand regime tactics. Additionally, Aaron Rodgers referred to the book to highlight concerns regarding growing authoritarianism in the United States and its accuracy relative to modern times.
Discussed“They are charging them with psycholinguistic crimes What's that This is out of 1984 psycholinguistics This is basically alleging that what they're saying has meanings similar to what Putin says And therefore it's a crime”
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Good Energy
Discussed“We wrote a book called 'Good Energy' with the simple thesis that conditions plaguing us are connected! We need to stop treating conditions with ineffective drugs and siloed approaches, and appreciate the interconnectedness of our beautiful human body!”
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Hillbilly Elegy
On The Tucker Carlson Show, J.D. Vance and his guest discuss his book Hillbilly Elegy. J.D. Vance reflects on writing the personal narrative about his family after initially becoming friends with the host at a bankers conference, while the guest notes that Vance understands rural issues deeply because he lived them.
Discussed“I think Vance understands it at a level as good as any politician that I've seen in this country in my in in in decades and I think some of that is is you know if if if viewers haven't watched Hillbilly or read the book Hillbilly he understands it at such an intuitive level because he lived it”
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
Discussed“Then there are religious zealots, I would use even stronger terms, who use the Book of Joshua, which is 2700 years ago, that said, well, God gave us everything from the river in Egypt, meaning the Nile to the Euphrates.”
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Murder in Three Acts
Discussed“Yeah, as Acts, first of all, because of course the Gospels are incredible—the accounts of our Lord and Savior, but in particular Acts, because he is pasted, and the kind of fervor, febrility, evangelism, and zeal of the Apostles—like the absolute belief, like early on with Stephen, like being torn apart and just going, 'Whoa, I’m off!'”
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The prince
On The Tucker Carlson Show, the guest referenced The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli to articulate thoughts on nation-states and classic political theory. The speaker used Machiavelli's work to support historical insights regarding power and leadership during a discussion on the program.
Discussed“Because when you think about it, if you go back to think about like, in Machiavelli's The Prince, right?”
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... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
Discussed“And as long as you have purpose in life, you can survive anything. And Viktor Frankl wrote that book, 'Man's Search for Meaning,' a Holocaust survivor. I mean, a million times worse than anything we went through, but his point was the last of the human freedoms is our freedom to choose our own attitude in any given set of”
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Abnormal psychology
Discussed“I remember being in high school reading an abnormal psychology textbook that I bought at the school bookstore that had an entry on autism that was like two paragraphs long, this esoteric disorder whose origins we were uncertain of, whose parameters were unclear.”
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Discussed“I would say there was development of doctrine. I'm using John Henry Newman's language there. Newman says that doctrine is not just handed out like a football, you know, from one generation to the other. It it unfolds more like a like a river expanding or like a a tree growing like so.”
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
Discussed“And then it was in that space that I found a book by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker. The book is called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And in a nutshell, he was curious about the fact that outcome long-term outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia are much better in the you know so-called third world and countries where we”
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And the walls came tumbling down
Discussed“Ralph Abernathy wrote in his book 'And the Walls Came Tumbling Down' that in the 1980 election, he went to them and said, 'Look guys, welfare is destroying the Black family.'”
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Between the World and Me
Discussed“And then he published a best-selling uh book called Between the World and Me which uh was uh very widely praised and uh widely read and I had uh deep problems with it which I discussed at length on the podcast.”
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Bible of the Time. ...from the Big Bang to the present day...
Discussed“I I mentioned the my ministry word on fire. We have the an addition of the Bible that I think is beautiful. It's full of great artwork, but also it's got the biblical text, but then surrounded by literally surrounded on the page by commentary from the church fathers and the great saints and the popes and so on.”
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Blitzed
Discussed“uh which if you read the book blitzed um actually uh traces the history it was Aderall was developed by Nazi Germany as a tool for Nazi soldiers to be more aggressive”
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Born of Water and the Spirit
Discussed“the influence of Emanuel Kant and uh uh I might be boring your audience with this but Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”
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Brave New World
Discussed“Read 'The Gulag Archipelago,' read '1984,' read 'Brave New World.' Go deeper; that is the regime's hate an informed population.”
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Congressional government
Discussed“It's always about where they have tried to innovate from really the progressive era, like they wanted congressional government; that was the title of Woodrow Wilson's book.”
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Dissolving Illusions
Discussed“Even though you you read a book like dissolving illusions, you realize the main reason most of these diseases were eradicated is because we no longer live in squalor, right? We have we have we have sanitation, right?”
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Dominion
Discussed“Uh I'm with Tom Holland, you know, not Spider-Man, but the the popular historian Tom Holland. Do you know book called Dominion? Wonderful.”
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Dreamland
Discussed“I mean it's the theory of a good reporter named Sam Quinones who's written a couple books on the evolution of the drug trade in this century that the Mexican cartels had a strategy that, 'No, we don't want to sell to particularly shooty people near media capitals, we'll sell to people who will overdose and die in small towns”
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Finnegans Wake
Discussed“You know, it's true because it corresponds in its intelligibility to an inquiring mind. The mind wants to understand that thing. What is that thing? It's beautiful because it's radiant. You know, it uh go back to like James Joyce, the famous scene, you know, in the in the portrait of the artist when he sees the woman he eventually”
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For Love of Country
Discussed“it's a very interesting story and she's written in a book that has just come out for love of country leave the Democratic party behind and she's joining us today to explain what exactly happened in her life”
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Discussed“We know now there's actually a really great series of books, it's one of the best I recommend to everybody, but it's really expensive now, and it's six long volumes called History of British Special Operations in the Second World War.”
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Frankenstein
Discussed“I mean she saw that by the way. It's very interesting about Mary Shel. I mean, she saw that coming. She saw exactly what will happen when we become God.”
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Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories
Discussed“There's a Philip Roth book, Conversion to the Jews, it's a short story!”
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Hamilton
Discussed“And so she wanted to be around that—she liked one thing we bonded over: I love the musical Hamilton. I don't really like musicals, but I think they did a phenomenal job with it.”
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iGen
Discussed“I um Jean Twangi is the psychologist from San Diego that I read a lot and she has a book called IGEN about the generation that came of age totally with the iPhones and iPads and stuff and she said there's a direct correlation between screen time and depression which I find perfectly plausible.”
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In the Terrace
Discussed“You could read blood in the water uh Joan melon's Incredible Book”
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Insomnia
Discussed“And Pat actually talks about this in his book, where he says this was a specific strategy hatched out of the Department of Defense by some of the neocons at the time to continue justifying the largest defense spending that we continue to be tied down with.”
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Laptop from Hell
Discussed“You have an amazing book on Hunter Biden's laptop, which sort of substantiates a lot of what you're saying, but no one has ever been punished for it.”
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Last Call for Bud Light
Discussed“And I write about this in my book, Last Call for Bud Light.”
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Leviathan
Discussed“And if enough people—there's a whole book in the Jewish Bible called Ecclesiastes that basically makes this point!”
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Life Lessons
Discussed“In the book of Corinthians, it says, '11 people will not enter the kingdom of heaven.'”
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Macbeth
Discussed“and at some point they may never say it out loud They think I am living in a tale told by an idiot Right that's that famous quote about why spirituality is important”
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No Disrespect
Discussed“You know, her big Sister Souljah moment was to say she wants to raise the capital gains tax rate, but less than Joe Biden. That was her big Sister Souljah moment.”
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Novels (Black House / Talisman)
Discussed“Fast forward perhaps a year—on the day that my dad died, I get a notification: 'Cassie Hutchinson's coming out with a book,' and the teaser of the book explicitly says she's going to talk about her interplay with the Trump lawyer who told her to lie. So all of a sudden I realize, and of course it's on the day”
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Parting the Waters
Discussed“When I read this in Taylor Branch's book, 'Parting the Waters in American King years,' and Taylor Branch is a Democrat. Yeah, he's Bill Clinton's roommate at Yale. Yeah.”
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Prozac nation
Discussed“So, this is a phrase that I first heard maybe 30 years ago when I the first person I knew started taking an SSRI, Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wartzell. It was this whole like Time magazine promoted idea that depression, mental illness of all kinds was caused by a quote chemical imbalance in the brain.”
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Rethinking Paul's rhetorical education
Discussed“Every wedding you go to, they're always reading 1 Corinthians 13. It's like I think it's the only verse in the Bible, actually.”
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Study Guide
Discussed“And C.S. Lewis says this in his Screwtape Letters, which is this book about it, um, is from the perspective of a demon, uh, trying to tempt people, Screwtape Letters, and his big thing is noise.”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Discussed“I go to the prison library and I stumble upon a book called bonfire of the vanities like Tom Wolf”
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The Color Purple
Discussed“Well, that, I dunno, that architectural draftsmanship is more important than, say, The Color Purple by Alice Walker.”
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The Conscience of a Conservative
Discussed“So I was coming from a working-class background, and I saw the Republican Party—not necessarily the leadership of the Republican Party, but the principles of what Goldwater was talking about as something that attracted my interest.”
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The crusader
Discussed“I want you reading this stuff; we're giving out Pat Buchanan's books.”
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The Denial of Death
Discussed“I mean I read a book there's this um there was a book that was written years ago called Denial of Death. You ever read that? And I'm blanking on the name of the guy who wrote it. It'll come to me. But anyway, the book is called Denial of Death. I don't agree with it's kind of psych psychoan”
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The devil's chessboard
Discussed“And then, you know, you start reading, you read books like The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot about the creation of the National Security State about the Dulles brothers and how influential they were.”
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The Ethics of Aristotle
Discussed“and so Aristotle writes about this in in the Noman ethics and he talks when he talks about the golden mean and he says any virtue is about finding the balance between Having excess of it and having a deficiency of it”
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The governor
Discussed“Well, your prison story, I must say, is one of the most incredible I've ever heard. Yeah, I'm writing a book about it. It's an unusual story.”
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The Grapes of Wrath
Discussed“It's not going to get you through the Great Depression. Yeah, no, it's not.”
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Discussed Prozac nation
“So, this is a phrase that I first heard maybe 30 years ago when I the first person I knew started taking an SSRI, Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wartzell. It was this whole like Time magazine promoted idea that depression, mental illness of all kinds was caused by a quote chemical imbalance in the brain.”
Discussed Anatomy of an Epidemic
“And then it was in that space that I found a book by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker. The book is called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And in a nutshell, he was curious about the fact that outcome long-term outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia are much better in the you know so-called third world and countries where we”
Discussed Finnegans Wake
“You know, it's true because it corresponds in its intelligibility to an inquiring mind. The mind wants to understand that thing. What is that thing? It's beautiful because it's radiant. You know, it uh go back to like James Joyce, the famous scene, you know, in the in the portrait of the artist when he sees the woman he eventually”
Discussed iGen
“I um Jean Twangi is the psychologist from San Diego that I read a lot and she has a book called IGEN about the generation that came of age totally with the iPhones and iPads and stuff and she said there's a direct correlation between screen time and depression which I find perfectly plausible.”
“I would say there was development of doctrine. I'm using John Henry Newman's language there. Newman says that doctrine is not just handed out like a football, you know, from one generation to the other. It it unfolds more like a like a river expanding or like a a tree growing like so.”
Discussed Born of Water and the Spirit
“the influence of Emanuel Kant and uh uh I might be boring your audience with this but Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”
Discussed The Strangest Way
“It's I wrote a little book years ago called The Strangest Way. The strangest way. And it's a book about Christianity because that's the argument I made was this is the weirdest religious ever.”
Discussed Dominion
“Uh I'm with Tom Holland, you know, not Spider-Man, but the the popular historian Tom Holland. Do you know book called Dominion? Wonderful.”
Discussed Frankenstein
“I mean she saw that by the way. It's very interesting about Mary Shel. I mean, she saw that coming. She saw exactly what will happen when we become God.”
“I I mentioned the my ministry word on fire. We have the an addition of the Bible that I think is beautiful. It's full of great artwork, but also it's got the biblical text, but then surrounded by literally surrounded on the page by commentary from the church fathers and the great saints and the popes and so on.”
Discussed Dissolving Illusions
“Even though you you read a book like dissolving illusions, you realize the main reason most of these diseases were eradicated is because we no longer live in squalor, right? We have we have we have sanitation, right?”
Discussed The Wealth of Nations
“Adam Smith, the you know father of capitalism had this idea of the invisible hand which if you go back and look at what he was actually talking about what he was describing it like literally in the paragraph where he writes about the invisible hand he has all these requirements...”
Discussed Between the World and Me
“And then he published a best-selling uh book called Between the World and Me which uh was uh very widely praised and uh widely read and I had uh deep problems with it which I discussed at length on the podcast.”
Discussed The Denial of Death
“I mean I read a book there's this um there was a book that was written years ago called Denial of Death. You ever read that? And I'm blanking on the name of the guy who wrote it. It'll come to me. But anyway, the book is called Denial of Death. I don't agree with it's kind of psych psychoan”
Discussed The Nightingale's Song
“And my grandfather, who is very important to me, um he he was a paratrooper, but I became obsessed with the Marine Corps. and he had me read two books. The night and gale song. Yeah. About amazing book. It's amazing book. I read I still go and read it every couple years. It's honestly and the and the he”
Discussed The Soul of Prosperity
“And then he had me read Fields of Fire by Jim Webb. Oh my gosh. And Jim Webb is one of my personal Those are both Vietnam books.”
Discussed Last Call for Bud Light
“And I write about this in my book, Last Call for Bud Light.”
Discussed The Color Purple
“Well, that, I dunno, that architectural draftsmanship is more important than, say, The Color Purple by Alice Walker.”
Discussed The Trials of Masculinity
“Angus Eon and an case did a book U um he called death of Despair that that that demonstrated that these people now live on average about eight years shorter lives because of of of of alcohol and drugs and suicide”
Discussed Trade Wars Are Class Wars
“there Paul RoR another Nobel lat has the same thing but so you can go through and you can find ver there's a guy named Michael Pettis who's A Carnegie guy who's who's thought these things through and his he wrote a book um 10 years ago called uh trade Wars or class Wars but a guy named Matthew Klein”