Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W17

“What do you think about the story of the book Eat, Pray, Love? You know, Liz Gilbert's book obviously got a lot of attention, a lot of popularity among women especially.”

“And so, the point I make about this story in my own book is that we have a kind of the soulmate myth out there.”

“Yeah, I mean I think you know on the twin study issue there's certainly some you know Judith Harris for instance is famous writing this book kind of arguing that you know because of genetics there's not much that parents can do to really influence the lives of their kids.”

“Well, we saw this with Melissa Carney's book, the the two parents advantage, two parent privilege. And um before it even came out, Melissa Carney is as sort of policy wonk DC, probably center left, I would imagine, a lovely lady, softly spoken, very well researched, and writes this book saying, "Look, there is kind of the freest advantage that”

“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”

“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”

“I have a book every two or three years that comes out, a new one that's coming out in a year called The Meaning of Your Life. How to find deep purpose in an age of emptiness.”

“So I you know I wrote a lot about the concept of decadence, right? this idea that you know the west the developed world was sort of stuck in these kind of cycles and needed to break out somehow but the reality is you often can't break out of decadence without you know a big big mess so maybe Trump”

“I've been reading about the Renaissance recently. Um Ada Palmer's great book on inventing the Renaissance.”

“Uh the first one is a book called from about 20 years ago by a physicist named Steven Bar called ancient physics and modern faith. Uh that is I think despite being a little bit dated is still really the best overall survey of sort of where arguments in modern physics that relate to religion stand and how a reasonable”

“Um but a book by called Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel who's a famous philosopher not religious but arguing for the fundamental limits and problems with a materialist framework on the world and it is a very short book which is why I don't hesitate to recommend it.”

“There's a thing called Swedish death cleaning. I produced a show about it which is all about that. Swedish death cleaning. the gentle art of Swedish death cleaning, which is the Swedes believe one of the things that you can do for your family is you can clear out your stuff before you die.”

“That and the Goosebumps books. [ __ ] off. [ __ ] off. No more RL Stein.”

“Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys. It wasn't Richard III. was a very big book uh bestseller in fact”

“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle uh called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested uh she's a historian and a screenwriter obviously a Ricardian and she was like I want to figure out what happened to this body that's still the mystery”

“If you want to know anything else about Adidas and Puma, we'll just go start reading up more. There's actually a book by a woman named Barbara Schmidt called Sneaker Wars, appropriately um all about the rift between Adidas and Puma. So, if you want to know more about it, that's a pretty good place to start.”

“First of all, you are the author of several books and more recently this one. Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind. But more recently, uh you know, you might look at that and be like, "Oh, this is a right-wing guest or something."”

“In Greg, you didn't just write cancelling of the American mind. That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”

“I mean that changed a lot of people's minds or that book generation kill having the guy literally in the front Humvey and people were like this is a cluster [ __ ]”

“This is a guy who again when he was in his what mid20s wrote neoconservatism and why we need it in ' 06 when the Iraq war was a disaster has since written books about migration about wokeness and now about whatever his latest in defense of the west book is.”

“That's like reading Band of Brothers for the first time about World War II.”

“Harold and the purple crayon cuz he went Harold went into the sky with his purple crayon.”

“No, if you read his uh ideas and opinions, it's a book, right?”

“Here's what's crazy. It's not the devil because there actually wasn't originally a devil with a capital D in the Old Testament. See, the word Satan originates from the Hebrew Hebrew word. Then he writes it out like with all the accents on it. Looks like Satan to me, which means ad adversary or accuser.”

“Jewish people had I I just assumed there was some sort of in there when translating Isaiah 14:12 in the Old Testament which refers to an old canonite myth about the planet Venus the morning star to describe the fall of the king of Babylon.”

“Emelick, he was at at Stanford for a bit, the end of his career. and he had done a lot of research on alcoholism and I wrote a book in the ' 50s or 60s called the disease concept of alcoholism and out of that book there was a curve and you can look this up it's called the gel”

“I did it at you know for 10 years every every February the guy that uh Brian Hall who encouraged me to write my one of my books called Louderder Than Words invited me to go to Harvard and I I'll never forget I had a a complete Harvard class.”

“And so I tried to focus on those people that I met which gave me the examples for uh be exceptional.”

“And that's why I wrote be the um dangerous personalities because um I have uh these robust checklists in there which have been tested many times.”

“And my grandfather, who is very important to me, um he he was a paratrooper, but I became obsessed with the Marine Corps. and he had me read two books. The night and gale song. Yeah. About amazing book. It's amazing book. I read I still go and read it every couple years. It's honestly and the and the he”

“And then he had me read Fields of Fire by Jim Webb. Oh my gosh. And Jim Webb is one of my personal Those are both Vietnam books.”

“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”

“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”

“Well, Deborah Bergs kind of admits that, doesn't she, in her book? I she one thing she does admit, she sort of touches on that. One thing she does admit is that the 15 days she never had an intention of of stopping there.”

“Again, it's called An Abundance of Caution with the yellow tape. It's actually quite well done by David Swag.”

“He wrote a book called the case against reality that the universe that we see is not real. It's a projection.”

“If someone's really interested in self-realization, they're really fascinated by the conversation you're having. My next book. It's called Awakening. The path to freedom and enlightenment.”

“If someone's really interested in self-realization, they're really fascinated by the conversation you're having. My next book. It's called Awakening. The path to freedom and enlightenment.”