Honestly with Bari Weiss

She collected these stories, stories of cleaning ladies and truck drivers and door dash drivers and fast food workers and cops and plumbers and janitors in her new book which is called Second Class.

You spent the last year traveling the country, talking to working class voters and all of these Americans are captured in your new book, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

I think in the same way that most of us have a picture in our minds of a billionaire, whether it's Jeff Bezos on his yacht or a billionaire on a Gulf Stream, people have a picture in their mind when it comes to the American working class.

The book combines Batia's extensive reporting with data and expert opinion on America's emergent class divide in which the most basic elements of a secure and stable life are increasingly out of reach for those Americans without a college education.

Batya Anghar Sargon is a Free Press contributor and the opinion editor at Newsweek. She is also the author of the essential book, Second Class.

When I was reporting my book, Second Class, and traveling around the country interviewing working-class people, their top two policy agenda items were they wanted much less immigration, legal and illegal, and much more access to high-quality, affordable health care.

I grew up in in Scotland which was where we we pioneered Hillbilly Elegy, it's kind of like we did the pilot before JD Vance was even born we decided I don't know let's just deindustrialize and see what happens and I saw deaths of despair in Glasgow in the 1970s before I knew that that was what they were and I saw the demoralization of the society in the west of scotland in the 70s and 80s.

The origin story, this is actually amazing, the overlap between Hillbilly Elegy and tiger mom.

And then, um, in that email, he also said, you're, you know, your girls are lucky. You remind me of Maymaw. And you know, I'd never heard of Maymaw. So then he attaches this 10 page thing, uh, that is, here's like, here's my story. Right? And literally those first 10 pages are the beginning of Hillbilly Elegy.

And I wrote right back. And I just said, you have to write your own book. And he started writing it for me that semester as a, as a paper for the class.

she wrote this book called Good Energy which Tucker had her on over he had had her brother Callie Means on like a year earlier and they're very much into the why is our food system poisoned question and why is our healthcare system so focused on you know treating the illness as opposed to preventing the illness

Callie, who's been on the podcast before, is the founder of TrueMed. He is also the co-author of Good Energy, which he wrote with his sister, Casey Means.

I'm an economist and author of The Unexpected, Expecting Better, Crib Sheet and the Family Firm. Basically a bunch of parenting books not based on magic or feelings or trends but based on data and evidence.

I'm an economist and author of The Unexpected, Expecting Better, Crib Sheet and the Family Firm. Basically a bunch of parenting books not based on magic or feelings or trends but based on data and evidence.

I'm an economist and author of The Unexpected, Expecting Better, Crib Sheet and the Family Firm. Basically a bunch of parenting books not based on magic or feelings or trends but based on data and evidence.

I'm an economist and author of The Unexpected, Expecting Better, Crib Sheet and The Family Firm. Basically a bunch of parenting books not based on magic or feelings or trends but based on data and evidence.

You know, I wrote a book called Suicide of the West where I talked about many of the problems that the United States has.

I'm a Joseph Schumpeter guy and he basically has this prediction in Capitalism Socialism and Democracy essentially that socialism is kind of inevitable because of the problem of wealth not the problem of poverty which is that the children or grandchildren of the big industrialists they end up taking a sledgehammer to the very soapboxes that they stand on they end up part of the adversarial class so you end up getting these sort of asshole trust-a-fairy and socialist grandkids.

Yeah, that was the word I used when I wrote The Great Degeneration I think it captures very well the kind of things we began by talking about severe declines in life expectancy quality of life public health and the crisis of morale this belief that the institutions are rotten like that.

I'm the last person to be accused of determinism, I wrote a book called Doom to make fun of determinism.

He brings stuff back with him and inside the bag there was a book and through this book I use it to learn English to be honest.

This book was called Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl.

So like reading this book it became actually my guiding light that helped me actually navigate through my life and it did influence my life and shape my whole outlook of everything around me.

So you know the main idea about this book that everything can be taken away from you except your attitude and reaction to any given situation whether it's good or bad and this is what kind of pushed me to study more, to excel at study or graduate with a very good degrees and get a scholarship to go abroad.

It kind of was my guiding light throughout my life until now.

This is Jonathan Haidt. He's a social psychologist and a professor at New York University. He wrote Coddling of the American Mind, and more recently, The Anxious Generation.

John's new book is called The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

The, the, the argument that's made by Tom Holland in his book, Dominion, in many ways, Me Too, despite Me Too being a secular movement, traces its origins back to that first sexual revolution, right?

I was reading Road to Serfdom by Hayek.

The American dream is a phrase that was invented in a book almost 100 years ago. It came out during the Great Depression, the depths of it before then.

It is that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank, which is the greatest contribution we have has yet made to the thought and welfare of the world, we being the United States there.

Fourteen years ago, Amy Chua published a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It was received less like a book and more like a nuclear bomb.

Why I will never be a tiger mom, why Amy Chua is wrong about parenting, Amy Chua's recipe for disaster, and on and on it went.

Part of it was The Wall Street Journal slapping on the headline, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.

He said, Tiger Mom book.

But I did help him with this book. I did help him with this book.

I just said, you know, because he said, cause JD, like JD. And I just said, you know, Vivek, I don't know how to put this, but I just think, um, a story about being the son of immigrants, you know, and a debate champion. And, you know, uh, uh, you know, tennis champ is just not going to be as heart rending as going up, you know, the son of a heroin addict in Appalachia.

I mean this is why I wrote Adios America because the government lies to us.