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“His book on the digital revolution, The Innovators, has a new edition out”

“Alan Turing wrote his famous paper. called uh you know can machines think the computing machines and intelligence paper in nineteen fifty”

“So I loved your book. Uh your biography of jobs”

“she wrote her dissertation and published her book and it was a biography called Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”

“written biographies of Kissinger, you mentioned, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, Da Vinci, Elon Musk”

“written biographies of Kissinger, you mentioned, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, Da Vinci, Elon Musk”

“you wrote a book on uh didn't uh the Discover of CRISPR”

“Joseph Frank. Wrote a five volume biography of Dostoevsky”

“He wrote a A very provocative Non influential article. Called taking the con out of econometrics”

“Her latest book is Situated. Find the people and places that bring out your best”

“Indict your Uh Your earlier work, which which you do in this book to some extent. Your work on grid”

“And I also want to put in an ad, uh, although of course we take no money here for this. For the app that you mentioned, one sec Which I put on my phone after reading Uh your That's actually your book ... mention, uh which you mention is if By Kipling, which is an exhortation. By your Kipling to Willpower, great”

“Hey, have you read Anna Karenina chapter two today”

“Anne Patchet read um a book of um stories that the actor Tom Hanks had written”

“to allude to in Adam Smith. quote in in the theory of moral sentiments”

“Today is September sixteenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author and Rabbi David Wolpe ... Our topic for today Is Tolstoy's short story you could call it a novella? The death of even Gilgitch”

“It reminds me of a great passage from a book that will, I think, I'll mention once or twice in in this Ernish Becker's denial of death”

“he writes Anna Karenina, which is one of the great masterpieces of world literature, and then says I I he repudiates it and says I shouldn't have written it”

“Erwin Yallam has a book called I think it's called Staring at the Sun”

“you can read uh the Christian version of this as a Flaubert. short story which is a m it's a wonderful story called Saint Julian the hospital or”

“I by the way read The translations is a lovely little book called Lives and Deaths. Essential stories”

“I should Refr uh reference the other episode we did on a Pulsto short story, which was Master and man”

“I'm gonna close with a tribute to uh Julian Simon. Yeah. Uh Julian Simon's book, The Ultimate Resource, which uh I recommend to listeners”

“Her latest book, the subject of today's conversation. Is will and attention a memoir”

“one of her most famous books is Gravity and Grace”

“I'd read The Varieties of Religious Experience before, um, but I went back and read it again”

“Any reference. Yeah, the brothers Karmotsov. Which as an extraordinary immortal scene of the dilemma or distinction between organized religion and true faith, right”

“the quote comes from her book, The Sovereignty of Good. Um, which was just a a long essay that she wrote, uh, in the late sixties”

“Adam Smith actually writes about this very profoundly in the theory of moral sentiments the the sort of slippery slope of small um Indiscretions”

“And Patrick Denin, in his book, A Professor at Notre Dame, in his 2018 A Princeton University Press book, The Failure of Liberalism, said that he thinks liberalism is failing because it has come to the view that anything that is not illegal is Is moral”

“So now going back to and this is from the fatal conceit, part of our present difficulty is that we must constantly adjust our lives, our thoughts and our emotions in order to live simultaneously within different kinds of orders”

“in eighteen twenty one Friedrich Hegel published a book uh The Philosophy of Right. And he advanced a uh we don't have time to say much about it, but he advanced a doctrine that in German is Sit licht geit”

“Adam Smith talks about the fact that uh in Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith talks about the fact that the soldier, when he imagines his death and funeral, Thinks about the applause that he will receive”

“Today we're going to talk about his new book, The New Dark Ages, The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society”

“Today we're going to talk about his new book, The New Dark Ages, The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society”

“philosophers like Rousseau publishing their anti-monarchical and, you know, sort of proto-republican ideas in books like The Social Contract”

“We could think of many, many books, uh, Uncle Tom's Cabin that that electrified uh the public and led to important movements”

“One is Mein Kampf, the book that Hitler wrote, the sort of semi-autobiographical, mad, illogical, rambling, deranged book that he wrote”

“Stephen Pinker talks about it very compellingly in his book, uh, The Better Angels of Our Nature”

“Adam Smith's a good example. You can read Adam Smith with with profit, either his The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments”

“either his The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments”

“I just finished uh The Rodetzky March last night, which is a pretty obscure novel. I it's by Joseph Roth”

“I just finished uh The Rodetzky March last night, which is a pretty obscure novel. I it's by Joseph Roth”

“And we talked about this when we talked about Tolstoy's Master and Man”

“this great Walter Ong book, Ourality and Literacy, is the similarities that he that jump out at you as a, as a modern reader”

“this great Walter Ong book, Ourality and Literacy, is the similarities that he that jump out at you as a, as a modern reader”

“Mick Jagger was reading this book called The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov”

“Mick Jagger was reading this book called The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov”

“the people who can read, say, Henry James or or Middlemarch by George Eliot”

“the people who can read, say, Henry James or or Middlemarch by George Eliot, or who choose to”

“It's an example that comes from the brothers Karmatov. Some people suggest she took it from there”

“one of the earliest stories was about, it's called Dagon”

“I read a a really uh interesting book recently you might be familiar with called Fear of a Setting Sun”

“And the book that I draw on to make the the that I think makes a revisionist argument really well is a book by a guy called Michael Coolikan called No Trades Men and No Women”

“Our topic for today is his recent book. Hamas and its two million hostages”

“Our topic for today is his latest book, We Want. When mainstream and why it matters Adam, welcome back to Econ Talk”

“Faith is the evidence of things not seen is is what the New Testament says”

“thought of it even more as as sort of like the way we think about germs”

“I think I uh on Amazon a couple days ago just ordered uh Benjamin Todd's eighty thousand hours or whatever it is, making eighty thousand hours count again”

“I've you know recently been rereading Zachariah Erzinus's fifteen sixty three commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism”

“I just started reading Marie Sandoz's Old Jewels, uh, which is a biography of her father as a Swiss dude who became a frontier pioneer farmer in Nebraska in the eighteen eighties”

“Her latest book. And the topic for today's conversation is The savage landscape, how we made the wilderness”

“about going into the wilderness in search of Transcendents of a kind, you know, Gilgamesh is looking for the”

“in the story of the Buddha. We see this in the story of Prince Rama”

“And really what that landscape is, is the result of forest stick farming. It's the result of the planting of fruit trees. It's the The results of tending I'm not sure I'd call it farming exactly, or or forest farming has become a term, but it is an interaction with the landscape and it's a purposeful interaction with the landscape. And Through understanding that you can see how the people of the place and the place are are all sewn up together. And that Turns out to be true all over th”

“This is The second installment of the Econ Talk Book Club on the Iliad by Homer”

“of course the Odyssey the the next book is is all about that and and the attempt To return home”

“Um Don Quixote. As as being the birthplace, the the birth of the novel”

“insight I got from George Steiner when he writes about this book. Yeah, this passage in his book Errata”

“a sophisticated self help book, but I would agree that it's a a book that's giving you real practical ways of how to live”

“Another book he talked about was um A Gentleman in Moscow”

“The second book in that What's the other book? Yeah. The the truth”

“If This Is a Man. I mean uh the connection, you know, where I've literally every time I perform my solo show, so at this point probably, you know, dozens of times I've opened it up with a passage”

“Around the Iliad by Homer”

“And he's the author of No Experience Necessary. Why betting on yourself in your twenties is the best decision it'll ever make, which is our topic for today”

“JK Rowling has sold about six hundred million Copies of of Harry Potter books, which is an extraordinary achievement”

“Every year since the college opened, thirteen years ago, Edo has been teaching the Iliad by Homer”

“And the Odyssey by Armour”

“Everything from war and peace, uh Norman Maylor's The Naked and the Dead”

“Norman Maylor's The Naked and the Dead”

“Catch twenty two by Joseph Heller”

“It's one of our One of my favorite. children's books is called Something for Noth Something from Nothing. And it's about a family that The father's a tailor and he's constantly uh salvaging and repurposing clothing”

“Jonathan Shay He wrote a book called A Killis in Vietnam”

“We'll be doing an E talk book club around the Iliad. By Homer”

“his book which um Which I recommend a vision of the anointed”