Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W35

“You have an excellent 50-part lecture series online on the meaning crisis, and I think you describe in modern times an increase in depression, loneliness, cynicism, and, wait for it, the term used technically by Harry Frankfurt and adopted by you.”

“Nietzsche's 'Will to Power', Freud's thoughts about wanting to have sex with your mother – all these different explanations are what truly motivate human beings.”

“This is Hogarth's proposal in 'Educating Intuition.'”

“Let me give you a concrete example, which I wrote about extensively in a book called Manufacturing Consent, co-authored with Edward Herman. It's about what he termed the propaganda model of the media.”

“I was just reading Admiral Stavridis's book about Navy heroes, and I had no idea about Commander Ernest Evans, who was the first Native American to win the Medal of Honor. It's weird that there is this history, and it’s one of the few bright spots in American history that should be celebrated.”

“Um, is that what Dracula was from by the way? Transylvania is a place, you know what I mean?”

“Then I read this book written by Ted Simon, who wrote a beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels in the 70s. He was a journalist, I think, for The Sunday Times, and he decided he wanted to travel the world.”

“And, but John, I think of Ryan said John didn't think I was right for it because in the novel in Irvine Welsh's novel, you and Bremner who played Spud had played Renton on the stage version before we made it. It was a play! Trainspotting was a play; it was a novel first, and then they made a play”