The Matt Walsh Show

adf determined that various schools in oregon tolerate books that contain uh quote violence suicide explicit language domestic abuse drug and alcohol use and sexual content and those books include The Twilight Saga

Many of Rowling's most hysterical critics have only ever read the Harry Potter books along with maybe potentially the Twilight series.

handmade in Barrett's case was a reference to the Bible not a book written by Margaret Atwood in the 1980s and this sort of confusion is inevitable when your exposure to historical literature extends only to that novel plus Harry Potter and Twilight.

No Country for Old Men ... there is no soundtrack ... they kill the protagonist ... brilliant monologue from Tommy Lee Jones ... they break every rule but they are virtuosos at the top of their game.

It's apparently inspired by Javier Bardem's character in No Country for Old Men.

Another one I rewatched last week was No Country for Old Men. Oh, it's a good film.

We're talking books like 1984 by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and many more.

My oldest son was Huckleberry Finn because he's a big fan of the book, which I mentioned before.

My son especially loves Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Ben's going to take you through Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick you can go over his notes and analysis.

make sure you pick up Moby Dick by Herman Melville for next month's book club.

Make sure you pick up Moby Dick by Herman Melville for next month's book club.

Henry produced a now infamous book called how to be an anti-racist which offered a novel theory ...

Ibram X. Kendi the bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist said in a recent interview. Kendi said that he believes in black liberation theology as opposed to white evangelical theology, which allegedly teaches that black people are a backward uncivilized sort of savage race and Jesus came to save black people and socalled white trash from themselves.

Do you believe that white Americans are inherently racist? Oh, I do not. And indeed, in How to Be an Antiracist, I make the case that we shouldn't believe that anyone is inherently racist or that we should identify anyone as a racist.

And it's like a Lord of the Flies, you know, in every school essentially, this is how it goes.

If the Lord of the Flies has taught us anything, it's that our children need us.

This is socialization, sure, but it's a form of socialization uncomfortably reminiscent of, like, Lord of the Flies, a book that I read in public school and found myself thinking way too often as I read it, wow, I can really relate to this.

Jonathan Haidt gives a really good example of this in The Righteous Mind, right? He says, go to a college campus today and ask college students, is there anything immoral about a man going down to the grocery store, buying a frozen chicken, bringing it home and copulating with the frozen chicken.

Jonathan Haidt gives a really good example of this in The Righteous Mind.

Jonathan Haidt gives a really good example of this in The Righteous Mind, right? He says, go to a college campus today and ask college students, is there anything immoral about a man going down to the grocery store, buying a frozen chicken, bringing it home and copulating with the frozen chicken.

big news, the Lord of the Rings series for Amazon, they just announced will have female orcs. ... they are going to butcher it and they are going to wokeify it.

Frodo from Lord of the Rings is a hobbit, not a dwarf, which you incorrectly identified on yesterday's show.

One of my favorites, I really liked that scene when Frodo was fighting Voldemort in the Millennium Falcon.

I went to see the extended edition of Lord of the Rings, Return of the King yesterday in theaters. I saw The Two Towers on Saturday.

A lot of great authors too were troubled people. Dostoevsky, he would not have been a pleasant guy to be around. A lot of interesting facts about his life. But if you're going to let that stop you from reading Crime and Punishment or from reading Brothers K or one of his great books, then you're punishing yourself.

Dostoevsky noticed this about the modern world way back in the 1800s when he wrote The Brothers Karamazov, which includes this passage.

Okay, so why is this all happening? Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov defines the modern conception of freedom as the rapid multiplication and satisfaction of desire. And he says that that's the way modern man sees freedom, which means that if there's any desire that is not immediately fulfilled, then you're oppressed.

in the history of literature you may recall iconic lines like call me ishmael or it was the best of times it was the worst of times one of my favorites from notes from the underground

Last month he took members through his analysis of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

tonight is ben's third thursday book club and you've still got a chance to sign up he'll be taking members through his analysis of A Tale of Two Cities by charles dickens remember this is a live experience where you get to engage with him like never before

even if you haven't read the book you'll feel well read by the time you're done if anyone should be serving as your guide when it comes to the most important works of literature and existence you also get his notes which is a cheat sheet to important lessons themes and characters

you don't have to read the book you can just watch ben you get the notes and then from then on you can pretend that you've read it and if anyone challenges you you've got the notes and you can impress them that way

sign up for the third thursday book club at thirdthursdaybookclub.com to get ben's notes sent straight to your inbox for tale two cities and set a reminder to join the conversation tonight at 8 p.m eastern

the guy from Into the Wild ... highlighted the words happiness is only real when shared in a book that was found near his decomposing body

Christopher McCandless, whose story was documented in the book and then the movie Into the Wild, worth watching the movie by the way if you haven't seen it.

He left his family and friends to go off Into the Wilderness decades ago. Eventually, he traveled all the way to Alaska, where he lived in the forest for a time before dying after eating some poisonous berries.

Christopher McCandless, whose story was documented in the book and then the movie Into the Wild, worth watching the movie by the way if you haven't seen it.

He left his family and friends to go off Into the Wilderness... eventually, he traveled all the way to Alaska, where he lived in the forest for a time before dying after eating some poisonous berries. Shortly before he died, he wrote in his notebook, happiness is only real when shared.

I'm thrilled to announce that Daily Wire Plus has optioned the exclusive rights to one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Atlas Shrugged. There's never been a definitive series adaptation of Atlas. There will be now and it will be on Daily Wire Plus.

We buy the book Atlas Shrugged and tell everyone that we read it, even though we never even glanced at the first page. These are the follies of youth.

with the exception of the kind of people who still think that Atlas Shrugged was a literary masterpiece.

when Dr. Jordan B. Peterson made the decision to join Daily Wire Plus, it was a major win for those who championed free speech and intellectual debate with one year of unparalleled output. His contributions have set new standards and remain unmatched by any other platform.

I haven't even mentioned his Beyond Order lecture series or his extensive archive of lectures and podcasts.

I haven't even mentioned his Beyond Order lecture series

Having mentioned his Vision and Destiny, Marriage, and Dragons, Monsters, and Men. Additionally, you can immerse yourself in discussions that nurture your spiritual side, like Logos and Literacy, and Jordan's groundbreaking series on the Book of Exodus. ... Having mentioned his Beyond Order lecture series or his extensive archive of lectures and podcasts...

To Kill a Mockingbird, A Catcher in the Rye, The Kite Runner, The Bluest Eye, The Diary of Anne Frank.

Genderqueer, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Bluest Eye, Flamer, Looking for Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lawn Boy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Out of Darkness, A Court of Mist and Fury, Crank, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and This Book is Gay.

Literary classics like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are banned for sexual content and school libraries are coming under attack for containing books about gender.

and you'll find titles like my own book The Unholy Trinity is there Ben Shapiro's Right Side of History but it doesn't stop there.

there's ben shapiro's right side of history is there

and Ben Shapiro's Right Side of History.

This is one of the most amazing things about this book by Judith Butler, this Gender Trouble, is I don't think there's a single mention of motherhood in the entire book.

This is one of the most amazing things about this book by Judith Butler, this Gender Trouble.

This is one of the most amazing things about this book by Judith Butler, this Gender Trouble, is I don't think there's a single mention of motherhood in the entire book.

One of those books was Junot Dawson's This Book Is Gay. It's a bestselling nonfiction book that's billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative instruction manual for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans.

Quote, by Wednesday I received notice that parents had gotten a hold of pictures from the book that their child had taken in the class.

Her book tasting featured the book called This Book Is Gay, which is indeed an instruction manual but it's not just an instruction manual for anyone who wants to come out, quote unquote. It's an instruction manual on how to actually engage in gay sex. It describes and encourages many different kinds of homosexual acts.

It is a howto manual for the homosexual acts themselves. In fact, it's so graphic that I can't show you the pictures or provide more details.

This Book Is Gay provides a glossary or as they put it a cheat sheet at the end of the book and one of the helpful terms that they mention and define in the glossary refers to, and I quote here, eating poop.

Genderqueer, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Bluest Eye, Flamer, Looking for Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lawn Boy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Out of Darkness, A Court of Mist and Fury, Crank, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and This Book Is Gay.

One of the books at the center of the firestorm is called ... This Book Is Gay. And it contains not only the promotion of but also the extremely graphic description of gay sex.

There's a book. There's a book that was banned. It was called This Book Is Gay.

He has been and remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy, said David Garrow, who wrote the biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.

Barack Obama says Barack Obama is nervous about his legacy after president-elect Donald Trump's historic victory over vice president Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Obama biographer David Garrow gave a long and winding interview on the onetime commanderinchief and included in his book Rising Star.

Garrow's friend Harvey Clare transcribed the paragraphs by hand and sent them to the author, which ended up in the book Rising Star.

the biographer for former president Barack Obama made explosive statements during a lengthy interview published this week by tablet magazine historian David Garrow who wrote Obama's 2017 biography Rising Star the making of Barack Obama talked about various aspects of who the former president was both politically and personally.

we see the boy in a dress ... being read a book called Jacob's New Dress by his mother.

And he's being read a book called Jacob's New Dress by his mother.

we see the boy in a dress ... he's being read a book called Jacob's New Dress by his mother.

Editors note here, the right wing extremist is our very own Candace Owens, who also wrote a book called Blackout.

She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, Blackout, How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.

Candace is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Blackout, how black America can make its second escape from the Democrat plantation.