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2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Looking at the long history of humanity, and I know you're, you know, I'm very sympathetic to Matt Ridley's book, Rational Optimist, you know, Steve Pinker's points about the better angels of our nature. So, and Robert Wright, Robert Wright's book, Non-Zero.”
Why: Sympathetic to the views presented in the book regarding human progress and optimism.
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
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“Looking at the long history of humanity, and I know you're, you know, I'm very sympathetic to Matt Ridley's book, Rational Optimist, you know, Steve Pinker's points about the better angels of our nature. So, and Robert Wright, Robert Wright's book, Non-Zero.”
Why: Sympathetic to the arguments about human social evolution.
Nonzero by Robert Wright
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Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“But part of the point of my book with Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling the American Mind, was that the ancient idea from the Stoics and the Buddhists, it's not things that upset us, it's interpretation of them.”
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
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“No, I don't identify with the values of the left. I was always on the left when I was younger, and I was always a Democrat. But once I wrote The Righteous Mind, when I finished chapter eight, to write The Righteous Mind, my original goal was so upsetting…”
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
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