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One of the most galling features of meritocratic hubris is its credentialism.

If my book's the one to begin with is my book, Justice, What's the Right Thing to Do?, which actually is based on the course you took.

so in some instances it's you know, really this kind of outlandish, uh cherry picking of You know bits and pieces of books to find a basis to object and it really seems counterproductive because these these works of literature are so Widely recognized and so it's a real spectrum of books.

That happens only in the most limited of circumstances where it's something like mouse that draws internet, you know international headlines yes, you're going to see a surge in uh purchases of that book, but By and large these books that are being targeted Are not at that level of visibility or recognition.

Maus, Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust.

He's a writer and editor at The Atlantic and author of many books, including most recently Trumpocracy, The Corruption of the American Republic.

He's a writer and editor at The Atlantic, an author of nine books, including most recently Trumpocracy, the corruption of the American Republic.

He's a writer and editor at The Atlantic and author of many books, including most recently Trumpocracy, The Corruption of the American Republic.

He's a writer and editor at The Atlantic, an author of nine books, including most recently Trumpocracy, the corruption of the American Republic.

It's a more ominous book.

It's a look primarily at what Trump has done since he left the White House.

It was an extraordinary period in American history and I wanted to give a sense of what it was like to be a journalist in the middle of that storm.

I want to talk about what's next for Kamala Harris, how you see the race, how you as the author of the book, Tired of Winning, Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, how the theses from that book sit as we look in today's climate.

I've written three books on him, at least one of which he actually liked. But he said, you're a good man, Jonathan.

Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Joe Biden's 2020 biography.

If Trump had won, would you be doing these interviews?

Yeah, it's probably the book would have had a slightly different life course, I think.

The COVID epidemic created a moment in which suddenly a leader who is proficient in mourning and has the moral language to be able to talk about it honestly, not in the kind of baloney that you sometimes hear about thoughts and prayers from Washington. Suddenly that became a superpower in politics.

The whole Beau experience just killed off the arrogant stuff. It was almost physical. You could see it in how he stood. He emerged as this sort of humbled, purposeful man.

I can die a happy man, not being president.

When I was a baby professor 20 years ago, I published a book called Divided by God, arguing that the establishment clause in particular is a great example of this.

You wrote a book back oh so many years ago, 2005. So 18 years ago it came out and it was called Divided by God, America's Church State Problem and What We Should Do About It.

To me, I wrote about this in my book in a chapter called Mental Manipulation, where I actually think it needs to be one of the huge areas that we're investing in safeguarding against holding companies responsible for both having a duty to identify, to safeguard against, a duty to warn, for example, when they start to see that kind of manipulation emerging, and then to take measures to mitigate it.

To me, I wrote about this in my book in a chapter called Mental Manipulation, where I actually think it needs to be one of the huge areas that we're investing in safeguarding against, holding companies responsible for both having a duty to identify, to safeguard against, a duty to warn, for example, when they start to see that kind of manipulation emerging, and then to take measures to mitigate it.

In a new book called The Fabulist, the lying, hustling, grifting, stealing and very American legend of George Santos, Arthur Mark Chiasano does a deep dive on Santos and the life he built on lies.

The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

I think he's a very American figure. I think he is bringing a very old strain of a very old American tradition into the social media era of American politics.

I write in the book about Douglas Stringfellow, right? Who is a post-war member of Congress, lied about his World War II record.

I write in the book about how, for example, like one very easy one was the colleges. And that is something that you can call and colleges will typically tell you. Right. So that was that was a big miss.

The author of the recent book "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos".

He's the author of The Power Broker about Robert Moses and several volumes in The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and also the new book, Working.

Four have been published so far, and the last one is expected in a few years.

For two of the books he's written, he's won the Pulitzer Prize.

Why did Lyndon Johnson, why did he have these two sides of him?

One side is this horrible side of leading this nation into this incredible war. I mean, he sent almost 600,000, think of that, 600,000 men over to fight in the jungles of Asia. What kind of a guy does that? On the other hand, he's the guy who passes the first voting rights, the first civil rights, Head Start, Medicare, so you say, that's personality, that's character that accounts for this.

He's the author of The Power Broker about Robert Moses and several volumes in The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and also the new book, Working.

Four have been published so far, and the last one is expected in a few years.

but there's someone sort of like giggling and laughing and playing along, which I found, I've only listened to it a couple of times, which I found kind of jarring because it's such a significant thing that's happening and significant enough that it forms part of the basis of a criminal allegation against the former president.

In the middle of all of that, he publishes a book. Oh yeah, the book.

He talks about it, right? I mean, it's the-

So something happened, right? Did the former guy get to him? Yeah. Something happened, right? Isn't that the question that we ask about everybody from the start of the Trump presidency going forward?

So I think we can all agree that there was a change of plan, and the question is why the change of plan? And people have speculated other reasons as well. Somebody, I think you retweeted, I think our colleague Asha Rangappa had a theory, right?

And by the way, he and other folks keep going on Steve Bannon's podcast to talk about stuff that they claim they can't talk about to the committee.

Pete is also the author of a new book, Shortest Way Home, One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future.

I've read about this a little bit in the book too

Pete is also the author of a new book, Shortest Way Home, One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future.

I read about this a little bit in the book too

The Battle for Your Brain, defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.

What this book is about is not about Neuralink, which is Elon Musk's company of trying to implant electrodes into the brain to read brain activity and change brain activity, or even Tom Oxley's company Synchron that goes up through the jugular vein and puts neurotechnology inside the body.

So this book, right, is designed to do two things. One is to help people understand that neurotechnology is here, that it's about to go mainstream, that it's going to be part of our everyday lives, and it's going to raise these complex questions about do you have any right to mental privacy? Do you have a right to cognitive liberty? Do you have a right to keep private your thoughts?

In my book, The Battle for Your Brain, right, I give examples of the ways in which neurotechnology is already being used in the workplace and, you know, governments and individuals who are using it for their own benefits.

I want to mention again Nita, your amazing, excellent book, The Battle for Your Brain, Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.

The Battle for Your Brain Defending your right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.

It comes out March 14th, 2023.

It can be pre-ordered. It's already on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and everywhere else...

it really emphasizes the brain they went with... it's a kind of big think book Apparently there's a particular style that they think big think books reflect well, and so it's a pretty minimalist

I was going to suggest Letter from a Birmingham Jail in part because it is short, but also it's incisive and there are-

I've had my children read it. I have my little copy in my basement office, which I read from time to time. It's really extraordinary.

King is writing this letter to white pastors who were telling him that his agitation was actually undermining the civil rights movement.

So there's this larger narrative there about the role of white churches and their complicity with their silence and telling them that, yeah, no, this is the time to do this. You're telling people to be quiet and to wait their turn actually is actually not helping to advance the movement.

And I think that there are things that he can still speak to us 60 years later in just how he is addressing issues. And it's a short read.

And some people pointed out, but most people forget that one of the targets of King's frustration and I guess you can say anger was who? It was the white moderate, right? Who expressed misgivings about going too fast, even though it had been hundreds of years.