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He says in dreams for my father that the same things drive terrorism in Jakarta as drive crime in the heart of Chicago, right? Not ideology, not philosophy, but poverty.

I was just rereading Chairman Mao of all, I was reading about political correctness. In Mao's- Light reading there. A little light reading, you know. I'm reading Mao's little red book.

John Stuart Mill in On Liberty would probably argue that liberty has inherent value, that the ability to choose is what makes us human, and that is the thing that has actual real value.

like In Defense of Looting I mean this is what happens and this is how you get a society where people want to be the robber now and not the cop

And tomorrow exclusively on dailywireplus.com, you can tune into my book club at 8 p.m. Eastern. The book club is one of my favorite things that I do, the Ben Shapiro Book Club. It's really a lot of fun. We pick a different book every single month, and then we go through it together.

It's a very special episode because we are in Jerusalem, and that means that we are going to be doing Leon Uris' Exodus. We'll talk about the history of the state of Israel and what it means.

Along with frequent coverage in his show, he's published three books on the subject. The latest is Follow the Money, the shocking Deep State connections of the anti-Trump cabal, which was just released this week.

He released Revolution, a book about nonviolent social change, away from contemporary capitalism and toward the common good. He also wrote Recovery, a bestseller about navigating addiction as someone who's been addicted to sex, heroin fame and everything that comes without line of work.

he had another film that was still in post-production, which is Redeeming Love based on a really beloved Christian novel.

His latest publication is The War on the West in which douglas talks about how the western cultural elite have been undermining undermining the the traditions that made the west great in the first place

the point I make in The War on the West is that there has been this insane attempt to war on all of our foundations in the western democracies a war on our religious traditions our philosophical traditions our Historical traditions an attempt to pull down every single one of our heroes in the west sometimes quite literally

so douglas you talk in the war in the west about on the west about the institutions that have been attacked by these members of the radical left and those institutions range from things like the ability to to reason and have conversations to the church.

The book again is The War on the West douglas murray is the author

He's a renowned surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University. Also, he's the author of the brand new book Blindspots, When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health.

So let's talk about so many there's so many Blind Spots in the American medical system. Why don't we start with one that R.F.K. Jr. is constantly talking about, and that is chronic disease.

He's been talking about this for a very long time. The increase in chronic disease, failures of nutrition.

We're one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and half of our nation's children are sick with overweight or obesity.

Well, that's Dr. Marty McCary, his brand new book, Blind Spots is available September 17th. Dr. McCary, great to talk to you as always.

Alexis de Tocqueville talked very early on in American history about how what was unique about America is that there didn't seem to be these very rigid classes. People moved in and out of classes, there was this burgeoning middle class a huge middle class everybody seemed to have a certain amount of property in the United States. Tocqueville talks about this in Democracy in America which is being written in the 1830s.

Milton Friedman's Free to Choose aired on PBS, and William F. Buckley's firing line was also on PBS.

a special like Milton Freeman, that happened once in a blue moon and William F. Buckley, that might happen once a week, but it certainly wasn't every day.

And then I was very fortunate to get a part in A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE with Bobby Duvall as the lead and it was an Arthur Miller play, a great Arthur Miller play and I was very celebrated in that part of Rodolfo and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and I felt okay yeah I can do dramatic acting you know I'm no more fooling around

The books that they are particularly upset that aren't being put into the curriculum are books like Sex is a Funny Word and This Book Is Gay in Wyoming.

and I wrote a book that war against boys what's happening with little boys in school.

Previously she was a philosophy professor at Clark University and has written books such as freedom feminism it's surprising history and why it matters today and The War Against Boys.

John Kenneth Galbraith provided one plausible answer in The Affluent Society. In it he suggested that John Maynard Keynes had underestimated the degree to which we can manipulate it into seeing our relative wants as absolute needs, meaning stuff that's marginal to us, we can see them as absolute needs.

In his latest book, Truths, The Future of America First, Vivek criticizes the Republican Party's shortcomings and lays out a positive vision for the future of American conservatism.

Well, I want to get to your book, Truths, The Future of America, first, which is coming out very, very soon.

So Vivek, the book Truths, The Future of America First.

And when I talk about the future of America first, right? Truths, the future of America first is, what do I mean by that?

Well, Vivek, the book is really a fascinating read. It's Truths, The Future of America First.

Introducing one of the Daily Wire's newest projects, The Enemy Within, our new series featuring acclaimed journalist Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President.

so we are now living out filip ross American Pastoral

His latest book, False Alarm, How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor and Fails to Fix the Planet.

His book is False Alarm.

His book is False Alarm, How Climate Change Can Cost Us Trillion, Hurts the Poor and Fails to Fix the Planet.

As Bjorn Lomberg, go check out his brand new book, False Alarm, and all of his work over at the Hoover Institution.