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The Shame
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The Avoidable War
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What Xi Jinping Wants
The Party's Interests Come First
Joseph Torigian
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The Souls of China
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The Beginning Comes After the End
Rebecca Solnit
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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Here Comes the Sun
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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Glorians
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The Carbon Wave
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The Holocaust and the Nakba
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
America and the World in the Free Market Era
The guest cited the book as a useful lens for understanding the neoliberal era and encouraged listeners to read it.
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So there's a view, if you can see it in books like Gary Grissle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which I think gives us real attention and I really recommend that book to...
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The guest cited the book as a useful lens for understanding the neoliberal era and encouraged listeners to read it.
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So there's a view, if you can see it in books like Gary Grissle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which I think gives us real attention and I really recommend that book to people.
Asymmetric Politics
Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
The conversation referenced the book as an explanation for differing party dynamics and treated it as a relevant source.
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I see that in this book, Asymmetric Politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins.
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
The conversation referenced the book as an explanation for differing party dynamics and treated it as a relevant source.
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I see that in this book, Asymmetric Politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins.
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
The host highlighted the upcoming book on the U.S. diversity lottery and urged listeners to look out for its release.
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There's a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
The host highlighted the upcoming book on the U.S. diversity lottery and urged listeners to look out for its release.
"
There's a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Ezra recommended the work as a sweeping saga of white resistance to federal authority, rooted in Alabama history.
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The third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Ezra recommended the work as a sweeping saga of white resistance to federal authority, rooted in Alabama history.
"
The third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.
The Right
The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
The conversation noted Contenetti's recent history of the right titled The Right as a relevant recent publication.
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Matt Contenetti, who was at the Weekly Standard and launched the Free Beacon and recently wrote this history of The Right called The Right.
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
The conversation noted Contenetti's recent history of the right titled The Right as a relevant recent publication.
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Matt Contenetti, who was at the Weekly Standard and launched the Free Beacon and recently wrote this history of The Right called The Right.
Fit Nation
The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
Fit Nation was highlighted as a timely book exploring America's exercise obsession and was strongly recommended.
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One that I would recommend is actually really well-timed for the fact that we're at the beginning of a new year. It's a book called Fit Nation, the Gains and Pains of America's Exerci...
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Fit Nation was highlighted as a timely book exploring America's exercise obsession and was strongly recommended.
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One that I would recommend is actually really well-timed for the fact that we're at the beginning of a new year. It's a book called Fit Nation, the Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession by Natalia Petrozzella.
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Dreamland was presented as an upcoming book about the U.S. immigration lottery and praised as brilliant.
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There is a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.
— Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican P...
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Dreamland was presented as an upcoming book about the U.S. immigration lottery and praised as brilliant.
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There is a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Freedom's Dominion was described as a saga of white resistance to federal power, spanning 150 years in Barber County, Alabama.
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the third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.
— Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican P...
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Freedom's Dominion was described as a saga of white resistance to federal power, spanning 150 years in Barber County, Alabama.
"
the third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
America and the World in the Free Market Era
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order was cited as a book offering insight into the neoliberal era and was strongly recommended.
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So there's a view, if you can see it in books like Gary Grissle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which I think gives us real attention and I really recommend that book to...
— Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican P...
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order was cited as a book offering insight into the neoliberal era and was strongly recommended.
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So there's a view, if you can see it in books like Gary Grissle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which I think gives us real attention and I really recommend that book to people.
Realigners
Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy
Realigners was mentioned as a book examining how parties and coalitions change over American history.
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it actually reminds me of this book that I've been reading, Timothy Shank's Realigners, where he looks at the ways that parties and coalitions change over the course of American histo...
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Realigners was mentioned as a book examining how parties and coalitions change over American history.
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it actually reminds me of this book that I've been reading, Timothy Shank's Realigners, where he looks at the ways that parties and coalitions change over the course of American history.
Asymmetric Politics
Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
Asymmetric Politics was referenced as a book discussing the differing coalition dynamics of Democrats and Republicans.
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you see it in this book, Asymmetric Politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins.
— Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican P...
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Asymmetric Politics was referenced as a book discussing the differing coalition dynamics of Democrats and Republicans.
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you see it in this book, Asymmetric Politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins.
The Right
The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
The Right was noted as a history of the right written by Matt Contenetti.
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Matt Contenetti ... wrote this history of The Right called The Right.
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Episode: Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
The Right was noted as a history of the right written by Matt Contenetti.
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Matt Contenetti ... wrote this history of The Right called The Right.
Poverty, by America
Desmond introduced his new book, Poverty by America, as a different kind of poverty study that focuses on the people who benefit from the poor rather than the poor themselves.
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Matthew Desmond writes that in his new book about poverty, Poverty by America. But Poverty by America is supposed to be something a bit different.
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Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
Desmond introduced his new book, Poverty by America, as a different kind of poverty study that focuses on the people who benefit from the poor rather than the poor themselves.
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Matthew Desmond writes that in his new book about poverty, Poverty by America. But Poverty by America is supposed to be something a bit different.
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The hosts called Homelessness Is a Housing Problem a great book that argues homelessness is fundamentally a housing supply issue.
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So this is a great book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem.
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Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
The hosts called Homelessness Is a Housing Problem a great book that argues homelessness is fundamentally a housing supply issue.
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So this is a great book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem.
Scarcity
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
The book Scarcity was cited as the source of the "bandwidth tax" concept, showing how poverty taxes mental bandwidth.
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the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called Scarcity, which is by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.
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Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
The book Scarcity was cited as the source of the "bandwidth tax" concept, showing how poverty taxes mental bandwidth.
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the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called Scarcity, which is by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.
What Then Must We Do?
Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
Desmond recommended Tolstoy's 1886 work What Then Must We Do, praising its spiritual clarity on the question of poverty.
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I recommend What Then Must We Do by Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it in 1886. It's a weird book, but I kind of love it because the great writer is really wrestling with the same question this book is wrestlin...
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Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
Desmond recommended Tolstoy's 1886 work What Then Must We Do, praising its spiritual clarity on the question of poverty.
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I recommend What Then Must We Do by Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it in 1886. It's a weird book, but I kind of love it because the great writer is really wrestling with the same question this book is wrestling with.
Race for Profit
How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Desmond expressed strong admiration for Race for Profit, noting its historical analysis of predatory inclusion in housing policy after 1968.
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I really loved Race for Profit by KeeangaYamahtta Taylor. This is a historical work, and it's looking at what happens when we kind of do policy halfway.
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Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
Desmond expressed strong admiration for Race for Profit, noting its historical analysis of predatory inclusion in housing policy after 1968.
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I really loved Race for Profit by KeeangaYamahtta Taylor. This is a historical work, and it's looking at what happens when we kind of do policy halfway.
Hanging Out
The Radical Power of Killing Time
The guest described her new book as a manifesto that diagnoses a "quiet catastrophe" in social life and explores how we have lost the skill of simply being together.
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Sheila Lyman is the author of the new book, Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls the "quiet catastrophe" brewing in our social lives.
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Episode: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Live...
The guest described her new book as a manifesto that diagnoses a "quiet catastrophe" in social life and explores how we have lost the skill of simply being together.
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Sheila Lyman is the author of the new book, Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls the "quiet catastrophe" brewing in our social lives.
One of the things I understand your book is doing is exploring this downstream consequence of isolation, of loneliness, of atomization, which I think is pretty underexplored.
In the book, in the chapter where I talk about third spaces, borrowing this concept from the sociologist Ray Oldenburg, I talk about how third spaces, which are supposed to be those spaces that exist between home and work, are something that becomes increasingly difficult for one particular class, I think, to access.
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The book was recommended as a 2021 collection of essays and lectures that explore modern ethical sensibilities.
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My first recommendation is a book by TejuCole called Black Paper, a collection of articles and essays combined with some lectures; the book was published in 2021 and includes lectures from 2019 where...
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The book was recommended as a 2021 collection of essays and lectures that explore modern ethical sensibilities.
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My first recommendation is a book by TejuCole called Black Paper, a collection of articles and essays combined with some lectures; the book was published in 2021 and includes lectures from 2019 where he thinks about concepts like ethics in the modern world.
Hair Love
Described as a feminist gothic thriller released in 2021 by the small press Two Dollar Radio, the book was praised as dark, fun, and gorgeously written.
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The third book is lighter reading but still wonderful--a novel called The Hair by MelanieFinn, published in 2021 by Two Dollar Radio, a feminist gothic thriller that's super fun, very dark, and gorgeo...
— Episode: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our S...
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Episode: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Live...
Described as a feminist gothic thriller released in 2021 by the small press Two Dollar Radio, the book was praised as dark, fun, and gorgeously written.
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The third book is lighter reading but still wonderful--a novel called The Hair by MelanieFinn, published in 2021 by Two Dollar Radio, a feminist gothic thriller that's super fun, very dark, and gorgeously written.
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