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Charles Murray wrote a book in 1994 I think it was called The Bell Curve very controversial book in which he looks at race differences well the book is actually this is the thing the book is actually about social class there's one chapter about race but it's a book about what happens when we admit students when Harvard started admitting students to college not by who your father was not by how rich you were but by your IQ by SAT which is a proxy in part for IQ and so it's a book on what would happen to our society if we had this form of elitism in which we get this uber class this upper class of people who are really good at test taking and if you've been following American politics since 1994 and if you were all conscious during the election of 2016 this was the problem this is why so many people hated Hillary Clinton and what she stood for

Charles Murray wrote a book in 1994 I think it was called The Bell Curve very controversial book in which he looks at race differences well the book is actually this is the thing the book is actually about social class there's one chapter about race but it's a book about what happens when we admit students when Harvard started admitting students to college not by who your father was not by how rich you were but by your IQ by SAT which is a proxy in part for IQ and so it's a book on what would happen to our society if we had this form of elitism in which we get this uber class this upper class of people who are really good at test taking

That bank was some called Solomon brothers doesn't exist anymore but for anyone has any memory of the financial world that it was the one of the most aggressive doggy dog banks out there there's a famous book written by Michael Lewis call Liars poker about Solomon brothers.

That bank was some called Solomon brothers doesn't exist anymore but for anyone has any memory of the financial world that it was the one of the most aggressive doggy dog banks out there there's a famous book written by Michael Lewis call Liars poker about Solomon brothers.

Lord of the Flies is what everyone points to when we think like well humans left to their own device well Lord of the Flies is like well yeah a fictional work right first of all second of all well yeah you tell it.

After the second World War people obviously have to deal with the question why did we do this you know how has humanity been capable of such atrocities genocide in a way we've never seen before on an industrial scale now obviously the easiest explanation that people had was again veneer theory it was the explanation that people had always used to explain that behavior so there was a real demand out there for someone to write a book in a creative way where veneer theory was once again used to basically explain the horrors of the second World War and I think that's what William Golding did with Lord of the Flies.

Especially for the British political class people you know in parliament there or especially in the government who went to boarding schools etc Lord of the Flies is their worldview that is how they look at the world.

In almost every single way the real Lord of the Flies is the opposite of the fictional Lord of the flies.

If millions of kids around the globe are still forced well basically forced to read Lord of the Flies in school then can we please also tell them about the one time in old world history that we know of their real kit shipwrecked on a real island because that's a totally different story.

So my second book The Righteous Mind the subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion so it's a fascinating event it really shows human moral psychology and action right

The Righteous Mind and the Happiness Hypothesis were both based in part on the insight that when we're making decisions we do consult how we feel so if you're happy when you're thinking about the odds of success of a business you're going to think yeah I think things will work out I don't know I just kind of think things will fall into place whereas if you're sad or fearful and you think about the future you'll feel oh god so many bad things could happen no oh my god this is a disaster so we do often consult our feelings when making decisions where our feelings are not even relevant so it's kind of normal but we have to learn we have to teach how to do less of that in an academic context

My second book The Righteous Mind the subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion so it's a fascinating event it really shows human moral psychology and action right

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and when i was interviewing Robert Caro who is that right he basically spent a good chunk of his life research in linden b johnson and writing these tomes i think basically this guy's life is divided into books there's a size of phone books

When I was interviewing Robert Caro... he basically spent a good chunk of his life researching Lyndon B. Johnson and writing these tomes... I think basically this guy's life is divided into books. There's a size of phone books.

fact this should have been a chapter of my last book david and galaeth because this is exactly a disadvantage that turns into an advantage

I read the book when it first came out, it's been on the bestseller list for a long time.

It's a short book about an hour read, go get it, we'll link to it in the show notes, it's got 20 lessons that you can easily consume.

It's reminded that democracy has to be an activity acting in such a way that we might get better outcomes.

It's really a manual. It's a political pamphlet that gives advice drawing from history but as much it's also a case for history that there's a whole lot of wisdom that remains from the confrontation with Communism or the confrontation with fascism or with other kinds of authoritarianism and that that wisdom is accessible to us if we just accept that we need it and look back and learn from others, that's the advantage.

a lot of what the book On Tyranny is trying to propose is that how we carve up the time in our days and have a great influence on how we think about the politics of the world how much influence we think we actually have if we can manage to do little dumb things like spend an hour or less on the internet every day and subscribe to newspapers then that unbelievably elementary habit of picking up a newspaper at the doorstep can make us feel more connected and more active in the world

I read the book when it first came out, it's been on the bestseller list for a long time.

It's a short book about an hour read, go get it, we'll link to it in the show notes, it's got 20 lessons that you can easily consume.

It comes out of two times. It comes out of my whole adult life and then it comes out of that specific moment which I wanted to react to quickly.

It's not so much me being smart. The book is my trying to recall other people who are smarter than we are at more difficult moment.

That's why that's lesson number one in On Tyranny is don't obey in advance because if we accept that this shock is going to overwhelm us and we're just now going to take whatever happens every day is normal then we're done then we don't have a chance.

There is a wonderful book, very frightening book but a wonderful book called Countdown that was released not long ago that describes that the advent of endocrine disruptors being disseminated throughout our plastics and into our environment, tracks almost identically with the dramatic drop in fertility that we're seeing in a lot of countries that utilize these chemicals.

There is a wonderful book, very frightening book but a wonderful book called Countdown that was released not long ago that describes that the advent of endocrine disruptors being disseminated throughout our plastics and into our environment, tracks almost identically with the dramatic drop in fertility that we're seeing in a lot of countries that utilize these chemicals.

the newest one anyway is called Cosmic Queries star talks guide to who we are, how we got here and where we're going

and it's not these are questions we have answers to it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia

so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them

so because in the end you need to learn to love the questions themselves

because they're in are the doorways to learning and understanding and enlightenment

The newest one anyway is called Cosmic Queries, StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, how we got here, and where we're going.

...it's all about a celebration of questions and it's not these are questions we have answers to, it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia...

...and so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them because in the end you need to learn to love the questions themselves because they're in are the doorways to learning and understanding and enlightenment.