If Books Could Kill Public

Ep. 31. Have you ever wanted to escape the grind and follow your dreams? This week we're discussing "The 4-Hour Workweek," which reveals that all you need is a plan, a willingness to take risks and a modestly sized fraud operation built on Third World labor.

Ep. 32. This week we're tackling "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities," a book that dares to ask: What if everything that experts think about homelessness is wrong, and everything that one crank on Twitter thinks about homelessness is right?

Ep. 34. In 1996, a frustrated screenwriter got a fellowship in Italy. Twenty years later, Beyoncé released "Lemonade."

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Ep. 35. You stare, mouth agape, at the bookstore display. It’s a self-help book, but with curse words in the title?! This must be a revolutionary new framework, not simply the same dull, reactionary ideas repackaged as hip and new.

Ep. 37. There are two kinds of political scientists: The types who deal with noisy data and post on Twitter with a bunch of caveats. And then there are the types who write books about identity politics.

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Ep 39. Before Donald Trump became America's most prominent politician and birth certificate inspector, he spent his days making everyone in New York City slightly uncomfortable. Michael and Peter discuss "The Art of the Deal," Trump’s 1987 bestseller chronicling his exploits as a celebrity slumlord.

Ep 40. We're tackling Steven Pinker's 900 page dissection of the reasons why violence, torture & war have declined over the last 10,000 years. Was it an indeterminate mixture of politics, economics, technology & serendipity? Or did some European guys write some books that said murder was bad.

Ep. 41. Sheryl Sandberg became an icon for women who wanted to move from middle management at a tech company into upper management at a tech company. Peter and Michael examine the contents of her bestselling book, survey the wreckage of corporate feminism and ask whether women will finally find libe

Ep. 44. Peter and Michael discuss Michael Lewis’s bestselling book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, a young prodigy whose only flaw was that he dreamed too big.

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Ep. 46. Peter and Michael discuss "The Origins of Woke," a glimpse into the dark aspirations of the Republican Party and the mind of a very unusual man.

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Ep. 48. Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It's complicated!

www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15546366-the-anxious-generation

Ep. 49. A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.

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Ep. 52. What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.

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Ep. 54. Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?

www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/16041649-sam-harris-s-the-end-of-faith

Ep. 54. In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes 1 hour & 6 minutes