Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W02

“Erica France is a political scientist at Michigan State University and a co-author of the origins of elected strongmen how personal parties destroy democracy from within”

“so first I would recommend Jessica weeks who has a book called dictators at war in peace and this is our go-to book for explaining why personalistic dictatorship is bad for foreign policy”

“And then lastly for some lovy I would recommend Cody Walker's poetry book called The trumped from I think 2016 or 2017”

“he has um a small book called The uncontrollability of the world that he's also written a very big one”

“I'd also recommend a book by uh friend of mine Elizabeth field called fully alive I think the subtitle is tending to the soul in turbulent times which I written from a sort of a Christian perspective”

“and then uh there's a book by a spiritual teacher called Joan toson which has the remarkable title death the end of self-improvement which um that's strong”