Honestly with Bari Weiss

Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

This was Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir detailing her nearly seven years at Facebook, which served as a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism within the company. The book offered an insider's account revealing the gap between Facebook's stated ideals and its actual operations focused on growth at any cost.

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The book is called Careless People, a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism.

The Age of Entitlement

Christopher Caldwell

This book was mentioned as one of multiple books authored by the special guest, Christopher Caldwell.

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and special guest Christopher Caldwell, author of multiple books, including The Age of Entitlement.

Dominion

Tom Holland

The guest mentioned this book in connection with tracing the origins of modern ideas about women's rights back to the first sexual revolution brought about by Christianity.

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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?

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

This book formed the crux of the guest's argument regarding the breakdown of sexual relations, claiming the sexual revolution led to the triumph of the playboy.

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It's a story about the triumph of the playboy. This is the crux of her book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which has just been adapted for young adults.

A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Louise Perry

This is the recently adapted young adult version of Louise Perry's book, which the host felt was necessary to reach an impressionable generation before they made mistakes.

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This is the crux of her book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which has just been adapted for young adults--called A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century.

The All-or-Nothing Marriage

Eli J Finkel

The book was described as a great examination of the stages of marriage in American history, modeled loosely on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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There's this, Eli Finkel wrote this book called The All or Nothing Marriage. Some years ago, it's a great book about the stages of marriage in terms of looking at American history specifically.

Sex and Culture

Joseph Daniel Unwin

This Edwardian anthropologist's work was revisited, hypothesizing that sexually permissive cultures tend not to be socially expansive ones, suggesting civilizational decline.

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I revisited recently, um, for an essay, the work of, um, this Edwardian anthropologist, British anthropologist called J.D. Unwin. He wrote a book called Sex and Culture, which was published in the 1930s.

Sex and the Single Girl

Juli Slattery

The guest was framed as an anti-Helen Gurley Brown, given that Brown famously advocated for casual sex being enjoyable for women in her 1962 book.

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One thing I was thinking about coming into this conversation is Helen Gurley Brown, who famously wrote Sex and the Single Girl in 1962.

The Perfect Police State

Geoffrey Cain

This book was mentioned as being written by guest Jeffrey Kane, an expert on China. The book appears to detail his undercover experience within China's surveillance dystopia.

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He is joined today by Jeffrey Kane, an expert on China and the author of The Perfect Police State, an undercover odyssey into China's terrifying surveillance dystopia of the future.

Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The host read this novel by Dostoevsky, which was about what happens when a society tries to replace the idea of God with ideologies, specifically communism.

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So I'm actually - I just finished reading this book right here, which is Dostoevsky. It's Demons.

Jerusalem

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Described as a biography of a city spanning 3,000 years of history, this book was noted as a must-read that had sold over a million copies and was recently reissued in paperback.

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But Jerusalem is a biography of a city--a city, as he writes, that is "the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and the only city to exist twice in heaven and on earth."

Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

This book was mentioned as one of Simon Sebag Montefiore's essential works for understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and human nature.