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Speak to the Past and It Shall Teach Thee. We actually do have recent data on whether tariffs make things more expensive for American consumers, courtesy Donald Trump.

Fifteen years ago, he wrote a book that I really loved.

It's called How Does It Feel to Be a Problem, in which he documented the lives of seven young Arab-Americans in Brooklyn after 9-11. The difficulties that they faced included Islamophobia.

Benji Backer is the 26-year-old author of a new book called The Conservative Environmentalist.

I grew up thinking of myself as a John McCain, Mitt Romney Republican.

I don't see eye to eye with a lot of the people in the party on abortion and those sorts of things.

I believe that limited government, fiscal responsibility, American ingenuity, entrepreneurship, the marketplace can solve a lot of the problems.

I believe in capitalism and I believe in America being the best country in the world. I do believe in American exceptionalism. I do believe that we have areas to improve.

Akshat's book is called Climate Capitalism, and it's stories from around the world about climate solutions that are starting to scale.

You wrote a book called Climate Capitalism, and those are two words like conservative and environmentalist like Benji Bakker's book that don't typically go together.

The case I make in the book is that all around the world, there are different forms of capitalism, but they are now being forced to change to start to include either very explicitly the price of pollution or from other forms to try and reduce pollution and use the tools that capitalism has, which can do good, which can provide innovation, which can provide businesses that provide services that society wants.

China did not build this industry to lose money. China didn't say, hey, let's do this thing and take a loss for the next generation.

So there's no shortage of examples of how governments and businesses can work together to build the solutions we need.

You also wrote a biography of Emmanuel Macron. The book is called Rvolution Franaise, Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation. It's a biography of the French president Emmanuel Macron.

In my book, I actually looked it up in the index. I referred to I used the word risk 54 times in my book about him.

Russell Shorto is the author of the book The Island at the Center of the World and the director of the New Amsterdam Project at the New York Historical Society, where you can catch his exhibit New York Before New York.

I'm Noah Feldman and I am a law professor And the director of the Center for Jewish and Israeli Law At Harvard Law School I'm also the author most recently of To Be a Jew Today

His new book is To Be a Jew Today

I just did a book, the most recent book, which is called The Authenticity Industries, was all about how America is obsessed with authenticity and how that's manufactured for us and faked for us in politics and advertising and entertainment.

His latest book is The Authenticity Industries, Keeping It Real in Media, Culture and Politics.

Andrea Bernstein, she's the author of the book American Oligarchs, the Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power.

My name is Nora Kenworthy and I'm an associate professor at the University of Washington, Bothell. And I'm the author of a new book called Crowded Out, The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare.

I think that what we're all responding to is a recognition of the brokenness of our systems, right? That like how is it possible that we're reduced to this and yet sort of also caught up in the feel good collective action of helping one person.

And I think that that can be a really profound distraction from some of the other things that we could be doing in order to change things.

And so I think we got to figure out how we can reorganize each other around the idea that everyone is entitled to a certain amount of basic medical care.

The book is Crowded Out, the true cost of crowdfunding healthcare.

I'm an associate professor of sociology at UC Merced, and I am the author of the book Bankers in the Ivory Tower.

It's a book about the rise of financiers in higher education and in U.S. society more largely and how inequalities in higher ed and in our larger economy are connected.

In honor of Top Chef being in Wisconsin what US state do you think has the best food?

They include in their policy book a reference to the Comstock Act, which is a long inactive 19th century law that banned birth control and abortion pills by mail.

This week on The Grey Area, Stephen Markley, author of The Novel, The Day Looge on why he was compelled to write an epic book about climate change.

In 50 years from now we have used this period in history to turn the corner on the climate crisis and you and I and everybody listening to this was a part of that? That is an incredible way to spend one's life.

I am Brackton Booker, I am a correspondent at Politico and also the author of The Recast, which focuses on race and policy and politics.

Alien Ness, he's a B-boy, he's a historian, he's got a book called Art of the Battle, and he's apparently training our Breaking Olympians.

Off Campus, Elle, Every Year After, The Love Hypothesis, Sterling Point, and more. Slow Burns, Second Chances, chemistry you can feel through the screen.

P-Call. For phenethylamines I have known and loved.

No, it's not sex. It's fantastic for making love. And there is a difference. The orgasm is a connection with God.

So we felt that there was a possibility that the DEA would find this so interesting and even perhaps useful in some way that maybe they wouldn't be too angry with us.

they learned that their books were included in this data set called Books 3, which is this really controversial at this point data set that contains a few hundred thousand books.

Author Drew Hayden Taylor had no idea that nine of his works were part of Books 3, a massive data set used by tech companies to train artificial intelligence.