Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W17

“I don't think that history has an end point; I don't think we're at the end of history, as Fukuyama suggested.”

“That was in his book, The Power of Habit!”

“That's precisely the set of ideas that I address in my new book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.”

“One of the things I found most interesting when I read Globalization and Its Discontents, which was your first book for a popular audience, is that I've known a lot of economists and almost every one of them sits in their office reflecting on the world in their head.”

“If you want more real, honest, and politically incorrect stories that'll have the media gasping, pre-order No Going Back.”

“This is like Frantz Fanon in 'The Wretched of the Earth' or whatever he wrote—decolonization is always violent; it's fundamentally violent.”

“The public opinion aspect intrigues me; there's an organization called the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers that examined popular hashtags. They found that for topics like Taylor Swift or Trump, TikTok posts were outnumbered two to one compared to Instagram, but for banned topics it changed drastically, showing an 8 to 1 ratio for the Uyghurs and 174 to”

“Later, George Stephanopoulos talks to Dan about covering 2024 in his new book, which is full of untold stories about the White House Situation Room.”

“I haven't written a book since my memoir, All Too Human, which came out in 1999.”

“I came up with the title before finalizing that chapter, and it’s called 'Postcards From The Edge.'”

“Okay, we are here at the LA Times Festival of Books, my friends and co-hosts here along with Jon Lovett, who has a live show today, so you couldn't be here. They wrote a book, Democracy RSE, how to save America in 10 easy steps.”

“No, but he did publish a book in 2005 called 'Wake Up, Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic Turmoil.' This guy loves New Zealand.”

“Two of them on page 156 of his book; you know this. He says that he doubts the authenticity of the moon landings as president.”

“According to the top two UFO researchers, I have a book coming out hopefully in time for this podcast, 'Aliens from Planet X,' that talks about their origin and future appearance.”

“I had to look up my own library; Bill Case said the whole moon landing falsification was supervised by the United States Air Force. Well, my dad was in the Air Force; I never heard of Canon Air Force Base; it’s tiny—fewer eyewitnesses—and every department of the military has their special ops intelligence division headquarters.”

“In the book *Junk Science*, Innocence Project lawyer Chris Fabricant writes that Mayfield looked like a good suspect.”

“They might say you should just read The Originals or that we haven't read the originals.”

“I talked about this in the intro of the justice book that is coming out in June where, as a philosopher, you're looking at big questions like the trolley problem.”

“It's funny because I was doing my book tour for Everything is F*cked, where I did most of this research and wrote about most of this stuff. A guy came up to me after one of the shows and asked if I had ever heard of optimistic nihilism, and I said I hadn’t.”

“The 'stronger' piece is about emotional strength, often leaning on Stoicism—especially the wonderful book, The Stoic Challenge, by William Irvine, which everyone loves.”

“He is a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins, host of the Mindscape Podcast that I personally love and highly recommend, and author of many books, including the most recent book series called 'The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,' the first book of which is titled 'Space, Time, and Motion,' and it's on the topic of general relativity.”

“The second book, coming out on May 14th, which you should definitely pre-order, is titled 'Quanta and Fields.' That one is on the topic of quantum mechanics.”

“So that's why I keep needing to distinguish between black holes according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which is book one of 'Spacetime and Geometry,' which is perfectly classical.”