Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W47

“I am dying to ask you a question that has actually been simmering as I read through like essays that you've published in The Times and of course I read Blood, Bones, and Butter.”

“And I don't know if this is pertinent or not, but 'The Worm at the Core' by Ernest Becker about Terror Management Theory helped me a little bit with in this area because it's sort of about how humans—like we're—I mean, we're the only mammal, that animal, that knows it's going to die.”

“And so this sort of massive harming of the young, and in some sense this is a larger phenomenon that's related to the things Mancur Olson wrote about 40 years ago in 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' in which, in a stable society, insiders basically figure out how to rig the game for themselves.”

“These books are just absolutely beautiful! Thank you very much! Have you just done two of them, or are there more?”

“I told that to the Russians, and Tom Clancy wrote a book about it years ago called "The Bear and the Dragon" or something along those lines. The Chinese are coming for that land, and they're doing it very cleverly.”

“I had to sit down, and Mike Pompeo wrote about this in his book, and I'll mention it because Secretary Pompeo mentioned it. He said, 'Listen, you got carte blanche.'”