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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
Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice
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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
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man
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The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
i'm talking of course about the publication in the spring of nineteen eighty nine of his article the end of history question mark and a couple of years later his book the end of history and the last man ▶ tap to play from here
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
and rousseau was really the first philosopher in his discourse on the origins of inequality to provide a kind of long term account of how early human beings evolved into modern human beings ▶ tap to play from here
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Alexandre Kojève
they codified his the notes to of that seminar in a book ▶ tap to play from here
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
there is an african american author ralph ellison that wrote a very popular book at the time called invisible man ▶ tap to play from here
Katja Hoyer on Why We Should Stop Comparing Everything to Weimar
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Beyond the Wall
Katja Hoya
when she wrote beyond the wall and her latest book is weimar life on the edge of catastrophe ▶ tap to play from here
Weimar: The Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Katja Hoyer
and her latest book is weimar life on the edge of catastrophe ▶ tap to play from here
The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
where you see him refer to the bible or you know certain kind of phrases that people used at the time ▶ tap to play from here
The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas
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In the Realm of the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
frank is publishing his memoir called in the realm of the last man it's a wonderful book ▶ tap to play from here
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama
two volume series on political order ▶ tap to play from here
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
this famous aphorism in the will to power nietzsche's will to power that there's no truth ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Disruption
Francis Fukuyama
i wrote a book my least read book was one i published in nineteen ninety nine called the great disruption ▶ tap to play from here
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
i wrote the book the end of history and the last man ▶ tap to play from here
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
Francis Fukuyama
it turned out that my editor was right in titling the book trust because trust is one of those things ▶ tap to play from here
Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces
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Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It
Claude Steele
claude steele is a distinguished psychologist who is a professor of psychology emeritus at stanford university and he is the author of churn the tension that divides us and how to overcome it ▶ tap to play from here
The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z’s Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
adam smith didn't think wealth of nations was his most important book ▶ tap to play from here
Manliness
Harvey Mansfield
was my teacher at harvard actually you know wrote an artic ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Disruption
Francis Fukuyama
i my least red book was one called the great disruption ▶ tap to play from here
John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
John Harpin
and he his book is called the intellectual origins of american slavery english ideas in the early ▶ tap to play from here
Politics
Aristotle
the first was drawn from the politics of aristotle which held that nature itself marked a distinction within the human species ▶ tap to play from here
Corpus Juris Civilis
Justinian I (compiler)
drawn not from the authoritative text of aristotle's politics but rather from the corpus uris or kind of the the essential texts of roman law ▶ tap to play from here
Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution
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The Open Fields
C. S. Orwin
i'm just i've just finish the book on english open fields and enclosures and the theme of the book it's quite long and and i've been w working on it for since nineteen seventy ▶ tap to play from here
Arvind Narayanan on Why AI Isn’t All That Revolutionary
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AA
AI as normal technology
Arvind Narayanan and Sayesh Kapur
with his graduate student sayesh kapur of ai as normal technology one of the most influential texts about ai written in the last years ▶ tap to play from here
Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Richard McGregor
the famous book about america and china as a clash between the society run by lawyers and society run by engineers ▶ tap to play from here
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity
Samuel P. Huntington
if you're for example going to read huntington's who are we one of the interesting stories and his particular resentment resentment towards many of the new migrants coming from mexico ▶ tap to play from here
The Soldier and the State
Samuel Huntington
i think he's made uh you know astonishing contributions to political science from soldier in the state to clash of civilizations even though i've often disagreed with him ▶ tap to play from here
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel Huntington
i think he's made uh you know astonishing contributions to political science from soldier in the state to clash of civilizations even though i've often disagreed with him ▶ tap to play from here
Charles Fain Lehman on Why Cities Got Safer
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The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
this is partially rooted in michelle alexander's book with new jim crow ▶ tap to play from here
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