Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W02

“That weekend, she started a blog called Free-Range Kids and later wrote a book of the same name.”

“We did have a bunch of books about Theodore Roosevelt lying around, probably more than the ordinary family did, so I read those because I just read every book in the house when I was growing up.”

“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going. The book was 366 meditations, and I planned to write one more every single day and give it away for free as an email.”

“That's the letter I was telling you about why I was so struck by it; I wrote about it in my courage book.”

“There’s a book called The Myth of Judicial Activism, which is about Supreme Court decisions trying to decide whether the Supreme Court is abusing its power.”

“As he's riding away, Adam Hild writes about this in 'Bury the Chains', but he has this sort of Road to Damascus moment on the road.”

“Have you read it's a novel from around that period called The Fool's Errand?”

“Oh yeah, All the King's Men.”

“Um, and I think actually Stanley Cavell, a Harvard philosopher, wrote something very much like that in 'The Claim of Reason', but I don't think that it went that far outside of academic circles.”

“Um, and in particular there's, there's a book called Public Opinion written by a guy named Walter Lippmann that sort of defined this at the time. What I'm about to describe.”

“You're the author of 'A Bold Return to Giving a Damn.' That's a great title!”

“So, the fact that the bookshelves are filled with people writing titles like 'Consciousness Explained', for example, doesn't that mean we don't really understand consciousness?”

“In 1971, he writes an introduction to Gary Allen and Larry Abraham's None Dare Call It Conspiracy, the book which was hugely influential—this was like the center of Alex Jones's ideology today.”

“And yeah, I want to quote here from the book Suburban Warriors by Lisa McGirr: "By 1962, defense had become the nation's largest business, and from 1946 to 1965, 62% of the federal budget went to defense.”

“Then two things really solidified this for me, one being reading a book that I think is the greatest economic book ever written, called 'The Great Depression: A Diary', written by an Ohio lawyer named Benjamin Roth. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, he kept a large diary and wrote about what he saw during the Depression.”