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“it's been very interestingly revived as an idea recently by Steven Pinker talks about it very compellingly in his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.”
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Guest on EconTalkThe Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/26
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“historical would claim that the French Revolution was basically a consequence of philosophers like Rousseau publishing their anti-monarchical and, you know, sort of proto-republican ideas in books like The Social Contract.”
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guest on EconTalkThe Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/26
“One is Mein Kampf, the book that Hitler wrote, the sort of semi-autobiographical, mad, illogical, rambling, deranged book that he wrote.”
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Guest on EconTalkThe Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/26