Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W31

“But even though we get very mindful about the present year, which is a great, you know, that's a great attribute in the Choose FI community, we don't necessarily, as Stephen C. would say, like begin with an end in mind.”

“And then after Dawkins' book, The God Delusion, became a bestseller in 2006, there was kind of a split in the atheist and humanist skeptics movement about how militant you are in your atheism.”

“Right now I'm working on some bonus chapters of my book. And while I'm a pretty motivated person, I'm excited to share that information with the world, I must say that setting aside time to do these bonus chapters has been challenging because I've got a lot else going on.”

“It's like, first of all, Kamala Harris—her mother came here from India, her father came here from Jamaica. She has talked about that for her entire career, she has written about it in her book, she has given speeches about it.”

“Exactly; I mean, look, it's the Harrison Bergeron speech that we can reshape and reframe America's future if women just learned their place and went back to what they were supposed to do.”

“I did years ago and I've been reading it this week”

“uh if you don't want to sleep read command and control by Eric sler It's about the nuclear accident at Damascus”

“uh if you don't want to sleep read command and control by Eric sler It's about the nuclear accident at Damascus”

“uh razer's Edge I I still go back to to Mom's Razor's Edge”

“There were many tries for peace treaties, but Obama said it best in his book. He said the problem with Israel and Palestine is that one of them is very strong and one side is very weak, and there's nothing that compels me to give you land.”

“I retired from the Air Force in 2001 and became a pilot for Delta Airlines, writing a book called 'Dereliction of Duty' which was a New York Times bestseller. Surprisingly, 21 years later, it's still doing pretty well.”

“Joining me now for the first time ever is Stephen A. Smith of ESPN; he is the host of The Stephen A. Smith Show and author of the deeply personal book out last year, Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances.”

“And by the way, we just did an in-depth piece with Moren Callahan, who wrote the book 'Ask Not', which is all about the Kennedy family. She goes in depth on how that whole thing of Camelot, you know, between Jackie and Jack, was made up; it was made up by Jackie just to make their relationship look better after”

“And recently you have a book, sensibly titled 'Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past'.”

“And is this true? You wrote a textbook, the first textbook on satellite archaeology?”

“Now it's a weird thing, and I kind of see this with Ayaan Hirsi Ali as well. I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book, "Infidel," about 15 years ago, and I thought, "Oh my God, this woman is unbelievable!"”

“You were asking questions; for me, I think I fell out of favor when Bowen and Bok published "The Shape of the River" and I started talking about affirmative action. I wrote an op-ed piece favoring class-based, race-neutral affirmative action; that was not what the elites wanted and marked part of the beginning of the end for me.”

“One of my favorite stories about this, and this is quoted by Ken Auletta in 'The Streets Were Paved with Gold,' cites Nat Sherman, the famous tobacconist, who said that he paid, I forget what it was, $355 a month for a six-room apartment. He said, 'Isn't that amazing?'”