Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W47

“There’s a really good book called The Art of Logic in an Illogical World that talks about how to take these big culture war issues and break them down into constituent parts. It's about removing the proper nouns; for instance, like, 'Hunter Biden's laptop.'”

“So the first line, I'm going to mess it up, but the first line in RFK's book American Values is something like, I knew very early that the world was made up of gods and monsters, good and evil. And it was like, no, no, it's not.”

“Wow, yeah, most famously when Marvel Comics published a new edition of their encyclopedia. That's the other thing; those are the two things that happened.”

“There are still, you know, like shout out to Rudyard Kipling's Kim, you know, the Brits are still there in some capacity. And of course, '67, you've got French Indochina, you've got the US definitely not being there.”

“That Bible is full of the original feet pics!”

“Uh, it’s like Flannery O’Connor said, 'All that rises must converge,' right? Yeah, but now in a really cool way.”

“and in the process and I talk about this in my book The Rise of the conservative legal movement what happened is that the professions became liberalized but liberalism also became professionalized...”

“the second one is the unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies which is just a fantastic exploration of why when things go very wrong in our society at the end of the day after all of the investigations there's sort of no one to blame and it's the structures of our institution that we've created to do that”

“I've been thinking about something Hana rent wrote in the origins of totalitarianism another one of these books that when you begin quoting it you know things are not going great”

“Another kind of parallel book to read it's a very short book it's called offshore and it's by uh Brooke Harrington who is a sociologist who in order to write the book trained as a financial adviser and so entered that world and learned how it worked from the inside”

“and then as a third book uh to the trilogy I would say read American kleptocracy which is a book by Casey Michelle which talks about much more specifically American focused how Grand corruption is already visible and already at play in the United States”

“He was also the son of the legendary producer of The Wizard of Oz, Mervin Leroy, which explains Warner Leroy's daughter's name.”

“Red shoes Leroy, or uh what's the what's the Witch and uh Wicked?”

“Yeah, and a book, I think, too!”

“Oh wait, I may have mixed that up with the Anarchist Cookbook episode. By the way, everyone, we forgot to mention the Swatch guards!”

“And that same year, he went further, having read Forster's ghost story, Dr. Watt, in which a man dies after a gay sexual encounter.”

“Now, I need to explain to you something called a book series called the Twilight series!”

“I'm an owner of an unlikely story bookstore in Plainville, Massachusetts, and I'm the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.”

“I had a vague idea about the Austrian School; the only thing I had read about the Austrian School until then had been 'Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles,' a very good book by Jesús Huerta de Soto.”

“He also pointed out, and this is proven in Hayek's book 'The Road to Serfdom,' that any middle ground solution is unstable in terms of capitalism, meaning it tends towards socialism.”

“But somebody told me that a book editor—a book-on-tape editor had also worked on his memoirs! And I don't know how it came up, but he mentioned, he was like, 'Oh, the comedian Anna Gasteyer, she was a friend of—' which was such a weird feeling that he knew who I was!”

“There was a great book called 'How to Build Stonehenge' that came out two years ago, which really got close to explaining it.”

“Then you'll see, there are a lot of global historians now who would say, 'Well, Valerie Hansen wrote a very popular book recently that argues, well, no, actually, a product around the time of the Vikings could theoretically travel from the Americas all the way around the entire world.'”

“It's always about where they have tried to innovate from really the progressive era, like they wanted congressional government; that was the title of Woodrow Wilson's book.”

“And Pat actually talks about this in his book, where he says this was a specific strategy hatched out of the Department of Defense by some of the neocons at the time to continue justifying the largest defense spending that we continue to be tied down with.”

“Well, I do believe that we need to be less doctrinaire on the right and to actually think, you know, and read those books you were mentioning earlier, and to be thinking through and ask the questions and try to learn more, and realize like, you know, a history book may have been written at a time to just with”

“I remember being in high school reading an abnormal psychology textbook that I bought at the school bookstore that had an entry on autism that was like two paragraphs long, this esoteric disorder whose origins we were uncertain of, whose parameters were unclear.”

“I want you reading this stuff; we're giving out Pat Buchanan's books.”

“I have this new book coming out called 'We Who Wrestle with God,' and one of the stories that I deal with in that book is the story of Abraham. Yeah, so I want to just delve into that a bit in relationship to identity, and I want you to tell me what you think about this.”