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- 1 1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy ParentingThomas W. Phelan · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That LastsGary Chapman · 1× across 1 episode
James Marriott on the End of Reading
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The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society
James Marriott
he is the author of a new book called the new dark ages the death of reading and the dawn of a post literate society ▶ tap to play from here
Middlemarch
George Eliot
professors telling me that they'd spent their careers assigning books like middle march or ulysses ▶ tap to play from here
Ulysses
James Joyce
professors telling me that they'd spent their careers assigning books like middle march or ulysses ▶ tap to play from here
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
by neil postman amusing ourselves to death was the first sort of polemic to sound the alarm ▶ tap to play from here
The Enlightened Economy
Joel Mokyr
the guy who i think makes this makes this argument most compellingly is the economist joel mockier who's got a book called the enlightened economy ▶ tap to play from here
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
another book called the culture of growth ▶ tap to play from here
Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot
joseph henrik makes this point um or he draws attention to the study in one of his books is that there does seem to be a causal connection between the numbers of copies of dideris encyclopedia ▶ tap to play from here
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall McLuhan
he makes a really good i think it's the beginning of the gutenberg galaxy he makes a sort of an interesting point ▶ tap to play from here
Eliot Cohen on Why America Keeps Losing Wars It Should Win
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs
Cynthia Montgomery
he has a really interesting new book out called the strategist how to think about war and politics ▶ tap to play from here
The Military Balance
International Institute for Strategic Studies
you know we take out the double i double s military balance we count up the number of tanks and planes and and so forth ▶ tap to play from here
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
i feel like even for i i know i have a particularly erodite and so on listenership i feel like klauswitz is a is a constant reference but unless you're a military historian or unless you're a military strategist i don't know how many people have actually read klausewitz ▶ tap to play from here
David Deming on the Future of Universities in the Age of AI
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Why America’s Real Wealth Isn’t in Silicon Valley
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The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There
Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick
that is the argument of owen zidder and eric zwick in the everywhere millionaire who is really rich in america and how they got there ▶ tap to play from here
Dream Hoarders
Richard Reeves
i think there's an interesting kind of echo between your book and a book by richard reeves called dreamhoarders both in some similarities and some differences of emphasis right ▶ tap to play from here
Luis Garicano on Why Europe Fell Behind
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Galen Druke on the Midterms
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The Emerging Democratic Majority
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira
the book the emerging democratic majority by rotix sarah and the co author ▶ tap to play from here
Frank Furedi on the Case for Populism
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In Defense of Populism
Frank Furedi
he has written a book called in defense of populism ▶ tap to play from here
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Origins of the Modern Middle East
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The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag Montefiore
it's called the cauldron the making of the modern middle east by simon sieback montefiore ▶ tap to play from here
Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won't Invade NATO—Yet
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Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
let's start with nick bostrom now i've talked to mick nick bostrom about this he wrote that book a long time ago superintelligence that's where the the word became popularized ▶ tap to play from here
Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jerry Kaplan
i spoke to a prominent uh founder in the ai legal space a few months ago um in interviewing uh in doing interviews for my book ▶ tap to play from here
Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice
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Profiles in Cowardice
Jacob Weisberg
he is the author of a new book just out called profiles in not courage but cowardice ▶ tap to play from here
Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
there's a famous book by john of kandy which i must admit i've never read called profiles and courage ▶ tap to play from here
The Bush Tragedy
Jacob Weisberg
i wrote a book called the bush tragedy which is you know immensely critical of him ▶ tap to play from here
Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD
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Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump
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Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
including his famous book on guns germs and steel ▶ tap to play from here
Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun)
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1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting
Thomas W. Phelan
one two three magic is a fantastic book about how to use principles of behavioral psychology to help um kids uh manage their behavior ▶ tap to play from here
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman
i'm sure you're familiar with the pop psych book about love languages ▶ tap to play from here
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Building Things
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
how do you feel about some of the more philosophical takes you know zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance and so on there's a kind of whole niche of books that depict this as a personal virtue ▶ tap to play from here
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
olivia butler's you know her terrible uh yeah you're you're basically going back to cavemen days ▶ tap to play from here
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: How States Form
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The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
these two books actually were my introduction to your work they came out while i was in graduate school and i i i read them ▶ tap to play from here
Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
and then political order and political decay in twenty fourteen ▶ tap to play from here
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
a famous book called why nations fail by now darnatsamoglu and james robinson which tries to explain a slightly different question ▶ tap to play from here
Adam Bodnar on Why Defeating Populists at the Ballot Box Isn’t Enough
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way
even in two thousand twenty two i think uh i have written an article uh using this uh theory by steven levitz in lukan way of competitive authoritarianism ▶ tap to play from here
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: Human Nature
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The Great Disruption
Francis Fukuyama
from the great disruption to our post human future and its thinking ▶ tap to play from here
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
Francis Fukuyama
but continuing through the political order books is that if you want to have a develop modern society ▶ tap to play from here
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
that develop after darwin published the origin of the species that then tried to apply this very crude ▶ tap to play from here
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
i also wrote a book called our post human future because i take a pretty conservative view on this ▶ tap to play from here
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
aldous huxley talks about gamma's alphas betas and gammas you know in brave new world and that's exactly the kind of society that we would be heading towards ▶ tap to play from here
Daron Acemoglu on Why Liberalism Became a Victim of Its Own Success
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What happened to liberal democracy?
Jerome Azimoglu
about his new book called what happened too liberal democracy ▶ tap to play from here
The Narrow Corridor
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
as i also called them in my previous work with james robinson in the narrow corridor ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Experiment
Yasha Mounk
and i uh draw on it in my book the great experiment and and uh when when when james robinson ▶ tap to play from here
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
i find the rules of a theory of justice not all of that fruitful for debates today ▶ tap to play from here
Political Liberalism
John Rawls
but the rules of political liberalism much more helpful ▶ tap to play from here
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
adam smith theory of moral sentiments comes out of that ▶ tap to play from here
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