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Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "bo...
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Amanda Carpenter: Get With the Program, Already
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God's Hand on America
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The End of Reality
How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
The host held up the book, noting that it was scary, and they wanted to discuss it with the author, Jonathan Taplin, as it focused on four billionaires selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto.
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I've had this book around my house now for several months. I'm holding it up for you YouTube viewers. The End of Reality, How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Met...
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Episode: Jonathan Taplin: The End of Reality
The host held up the book, noting that it was scary, and they wanted to discuss it with the author, Jonathan Taplin, as it focused on four billionaires selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto.
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I've had this book around my house now for several months. I'm holding it up for you YouTube viewers. The End of Reality, How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto by Jonathan Taplin.
The book is The End of Reality How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto by Jonathan Taplin. It is an extraordinary and necessary read for our time, because either this is going to end or it's going to continue.
In the Hurricane's Eye
The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series)
The speaker mentioned finishing this book about the Battle of Yorktown, finding it fantastic and noting its detailed coverage of George Washington and the French contribution to the American Revolution.
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By the way, I just finished a Nathaniel Philbrick book about the Battle of Yorktown, which is just freaking fantastic.
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Episode: We're Talking Real Money
The speaker mentioned finishing this book about the Battle of Yorktown, finding it fantastic and noting its detailed coverage of George Washington and the French contribution to the American Revolution.
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By the way, I just finished a Nathaniel Philbrick book about the Battle of Yorktown, which is just freaking fantastic.
It's called In the Eye of the Hurricane, I think. And it's about George Washington and the French and everything.
Primary Colors
A Novel of Politics
This novel was mentioned as one of the seven books authored by Joe Klein, who was a guest on the podcast. It was highlighted as a well-known work by him.
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Joe Klein, long-time journalist, author of seven books, including Primary Colors, now writes Sanity Clause on Substack and co-hosts a new political podcast, Night Owls
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Episode: Joe Klein & John Ellis: A Torrent of Stupid
This novel was mentioned as one of the seven books authored by Joe Klein, who was a guest on the podcast. It was highlighted as a well-known work by him.
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Joe Klein, long-time journalist, author of seven books, including Primary Colors, now writes Sanity Clause on Substack and co-hosts a new political podcast, Night Owls
Joe Klein is the legendary journalist, author of seven books, including the novel Primary Colors.
Fluke
Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
The book discussed the concept of chaos theory, suggesting that small changes can have large, unforeseen effects over time, exemplified by historical events. Klaas claimed the book, despite discussing alarming topics like rising black swan events, was ultimately uplifting by showing that individual actions matter due to these ripple effects.
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I want to talk about your new mind bending book, Fluke, Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters, which I found a little bit alarming and scary, but you claim is uplifting.
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Episode: Brian Klaas: Why Everything We Do Matters
The book discussed the concept of chaos theory, suggesting that small changes can have large, unforeseen effects over time, exemplified by historical events. Klaas claimed the book, despite discussing alarming topics like rising black swan events, was ultimately uplifting by showing that individual actions matter due to these ripple effects.
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I want to talk about your new mind bending book, Fluke, Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters, which I found a little bit alarming and scary, but you claim is uplifting.
The formal definition is basically it's called sensitivity on initial conditions, which is a academic way of saying that small changes can have really big effects over time.
The idea that you know, a vacation 19 years earlier can cause this massive shift in who lives and who dies in World War Two is the way that world actually works as part of chaos theory.
The third part of is why everything we do matters.
I think one of the things that's really cool about chaos theory, and I think this is demonstrable scientific fact, not just some, you know, new age theory or anything, is that because of the ripple effects of all the things that we do, it is totally wrong to say that we're unimportant.
The Importance of What We Care About
Philosophical Essays
This book was mentioned in the context of prioritizing what matters, suggesting the author wrote about the necessity of narrowing down concerns due to limited mental bandwidth.
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So talk to me about this. Harry Frankfurter wrote the great book, The Importance of What We Care About.
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Episode: Complete and Total Immunity
This book was mentioned in the context of prioritizing what matters, suggesting the author wrote about the necessity of narrowing down concerns due to limited mental bandwidth.
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So talk to me about this. Harry Frankfurter wrote the great book, The Importance of What We Care About.
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The speaker stumbled across the existence of these novels and noted that the sense of unity they represent among the MAGA base was worse than he had anticipated.
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I can't believe that I never knew that there was such a thing as MAGA romance novels. Have you ever seen these?
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Episode: Karen Tumulty: The World's Biggest Victim
The speaker stumbled across the existence of these novels and noted that the sense of unity they represent among the MAGA base was worse than he had anticipated.
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I can't believe that I never knew that there was such a thing as MAGA romance novels. Have you ever seen these?
Oh now my book club hadn't read any of those yet. Okay. I will send you something about this when you talk about a sense of unity, whatever you think it's way worse than you thought.
TrumpNation
The Art of Being The Donald
The book was mentioned as being written by Tim O'Brien during the 'before times' and contained details about Donald Trump inflating his wealth, which led to Trump suing O'Brien for libel. The book covered various aspects of Trump's business, personal, and political life.
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You wrote the book, Trump Nation, The Art of Being the Donald. You've been following his business acumen over the years.
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Episode: Tim O'Brien: The Most Corrupt President. Ever.
The book was mentioned as being written by Tim O'Brien during the 'before times' and contained details about Donald Trump inflating his wealth, which led to Trump suing O'Brien for libel. The book covered various aspects of Trump's business, personal, and political life.
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You wrote the book, Trump Nation, The Art of Being the Donald. You've been following his business acumen over the years.
Donald Trump once sued you over details you provided in your 2005 book, Trump Nation, because you were one of the first people to say, yeah, a lot of Trump's numbers and claims are complete bullshit.
The book covered a wide variety of subjects in his business, personal and political life. But he focused on three pages of the book that showed this sort of decades long, farcical dialogue he had had about how rich he was, and how he used that to lead the media along quite effectively, he got outsized attention relative to his actual accomplishments.
Tim O'Brien is a Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion, host of the podcast Crash Course, political analyst at MSNBC, former editor and reporter for the New York Times, author of Trump Nation, The Art of Being the Donald, published in the before times.
Fail U.
The False Promise of Higher Education
The speaker mentioned this book, associated with the author of 'Dumbing Down Our Kids,' as still being in print while discussing the ongoing issues in higher education.
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fail you the false promise of higher education from the author of Prof Scam, and dumbing down our kids.
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Episode: Tom Nichols: Claudine Gay Had to Go
The speaker mentioned this book, associated with the author of 'Dumbing Down Our Kids,' as still being in print while discussing the ongoing issues in higher education.
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fail you the false promise of higher education from the author of Prof Scam, and dumbing down our kids.
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust
A Prelude to Genocide (Perspectives on the Holocaust)
The book was written by Adolf Hitler while he was in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. It served as an apologia for the failed uprising, among other things.
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during which he wrote Mein Kampf. And he converted this rebellion into sort of a great patriotic uprising. And Mein Kampf, the book, was a kind of apologia, you know, written from prison for among oth...
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Episode: What Will the Supreme Court Do?
The book was written by Adolf Hitler while he was in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. It served as an apologia for the failed uprising, among other things.
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during which he wrote Mein Kampf. And he converted this rebellion into sort of a great patriotic uprising. And Mein Kampf, the book, was a kind of apologia, you know, written from prison for among other things this abortive uprising.
The Divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
The book served as a history of Donald Trump and his time in the White House, and the speakers discussed needing to potentially update the paperback edition with many new chapters due to ongoing events.
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And she's also a co-author most recently of The Divider, the history of Donald Trump and the White House, which she co-wrote with her husband, Peter Baker. Probably going to need to u...
— Episode: Susan Glasser: The Fever Won't Break
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Episode: Susan Glasser: The Fever Won't Break
The book served as a history of Donald Trump and his time in the White House, and the speakers discussed needing to potentially update the paperback edition with many new chapters due to ongoing events.
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And she's also a co-author most recently of The Divider, the history of Donald Trump and the White House, which she co-wrote with her husband, Peter Baker. Probably going to need to update that do you think? You and Peter ever talk about, hey, maybe when the paperback comes out we're gonna have to add like four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten chapters?
What Trump's own appointees tell us? They told us he didn't know anything about most things. That's a quote from a senior White House official. That's a Republican folks, a senior White House official in the Trump White House.
The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
The director of 'The Day After' was executive producing a documentary based on this book.
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The day after director Nicholas Meyer, who is now executive producing a documentary based on the book Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by the late Daniel Ellsberg, summed up the a...
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Episode: The Day After: The Night My Father Scared America
The director of 'The Day After' was executive producing a documentary based on this book.
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The day after director Nicholas Meyer, who is now executive producing a documentary based on the book Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by the late Daniel Ellsberg, summed up the accomplishment of the day after this way.
The Path to Paradise
A Francis Ford Coppola Story
This new book provided a fascinating and compulsively readable look at the rise, fall, and potential rebirth of Francis Ford Coppola's company, Zoetrope, offering glimpses into the life created there.
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Wasson's new book: "The Path to Paradise" A Francis Ford Coppola Story, which is a fascinating and compulsively readable look at the rise and fall and potentially kind of rebirth of C...
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Episode: Sam Wasson: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
This new book provided a fascinating and compulsively readable look at the rise, fall, and potential rebirth of Francis Ford Coppola's company, Zoetrope, offering glimpses into the life created there.
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Wasson's new book: "The Path to Paradise" A Francis Ford Coppola Story, which is a fascinating and compulsively readable look at the rise and fall and potentially kind of rebirth of Coppola's company, Zoetrope.
The name of the book is The Path to Paradise, A Francis Ford Coppola Story. Everyone should check it out if you're interested in not only Apocalypse Now and also the filmmakers of that era, but just that whole scene, that whole business scene.
Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
This book was mentioned as one of Anne Applebaum's important works, noted as being highly relevant to current events regarding Ukraine.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize w...
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Episode: Anne Applebaum: The Irreparable Damage of a Second...
This book was mentioned as one of Anne Applebaum's important works, noted as being highly relevant to current events regarding Ukraine.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag, A History and most recently Twilight of Democracy, The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Gulag
A History
This Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Anne Applebaum was listed among her significant published works.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gu...
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Episode: Anne Applebaum: The Irreparable Damage of a Second...
This Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Anne Applebaum was listed among her significant published works.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag, A History and most recently Twilight of Democracy, The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Twilight of Democracy
The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
This was noted as Anne Applebaum's most recent book discussed during the podcast episode.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag, A H...
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Episode: Anne Applebaum: The Irreparable Damage of a Second...
This was noted as Anne Applebaum's most recent book discussed during the podcast episode.
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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of a number of important books, including Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, highly relevant to events now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag, A History and most recently Twilight of Democracy, The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Unfit to Lead
Why Trudeau Should Resign
The book by Liz Cheney was mentioned as a New York Times bestseller, despite her being exiled from leadership for her political courage.
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Now, of course, Liz Cheney has the number one New York Times bestselling book today, but we know that she was kicked out of leadership.
— Episode: Ready for 2024?
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Episode: Ready for 2024?
The book by Liz Cheney was mentioned as a New York Times bestseller, despite her being exiled from leadership for her political courage.
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Now, of course, Liz Cheney has the number one New York Times bestselling book today, but we know that she was kicked out of leadership.
The Emerging Democratic Majority
Two decades prior, Teixeira and his coauthor predicted in this book that Democrats were on the cusp of political dominance due to demographic shifts like the growth of nonwhite city dwellers and college-educated professionals. This prediction led to Teixeira being hailed as a seer after Barack Obama's 2008 victory, though the authors later acknowledged they missed the continued importance of the white working class.
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two decades ago, you and your coauthor, John Judas predicted in their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, that Democrats were on the cusp of securing political dominance.
— Episode: Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
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Episode: Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Two decades prior, Teixeira and his coauthor predicted in this book that Democrats were on the cusp of political dominance due to demographic shifts like the growth of nonwhite city dwellers and college-educated professionals. This prediction led to Teixeira being hailed as a seer after Barack Obama's 2008 victory, though the authors later acknowledged they missed the continued importance of the white working class.
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two decades ago, you and your coauthor, John Judas predicted in their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, that Democrats were on the cusp of securing political dominance.
Back in the day when The Emerging Democratic Majority came out in 2002, it wasn't immediately hailed as a brilliant work of prophecy.
Trumpocalypse
The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon (Babylon Code)
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
This new book was described as much more personal and raw than expected, delving into the author's upbringing in the evangelical subculture and his subsequent reckoning with its political shift toward extremism.
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author of the new book, The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory, American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.
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Episode: Tim Alberta: American Idolatry
This new book was described as much more personal and raw than expected, delving into the author's upbringing in the evangelical subculture and his subsequent reckoning with its political shift toward extremism.
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author of the new book, The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory, American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.
It was never my intention to speak about American evangelicalism. Having grown up steeped in Christianity's right wing subculture, the son of a megachurch minister, a follower of Jesus, someone who self-identified as evangelical since childhood. I was a reliable defender of the faith.
An Unlikely Lady
Liz Cheney's new book was described as a blowout bestseller that was topping the charts on Amazon, and it was noted as being well-written and telling a very compelling story.
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Her new book, by the way, her new book is just a blowout bestseller. It's topping the charts on Amazon. Amazon ran out of books.
— Episode: A.B. Stoddard: No One Feared Kevin
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Episode: A.B. Stoddard: No One Feared Kevin
Liz Cheney's new book was described as a blowout bestseller that was topping the charts on Amazon, and it was noted as being well-written and telling a very compelling story.
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Her new book, by the way, her new book is just a blowout bestseller. It's topping the charts on Amazon. Amazon ran out of books.
I mean, you could do a lot worse than to give Liz Cheney's book because first of all, it's well-written and I think she wrote it herself. I mean, it's very well written and it tells a very, very compelling story.
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