Episodios

  • Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 6
    May 5 2025
    1. The Moral Sense by: James Q. Wilson

    2. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1918-1956) by: Alekandr Solzhenitsyn

    3. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by: Sean McMeekin

    4. Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's by: Charles Piller

    5. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by: Peter S. Goodman

    6. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by: Sarah Wynn-Williams

    7. Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork by: Dan Sullivan

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    29 m
  • Horses in 1925 = Children in 2025
    Apr 17 2025

    Getting people to have more children may be as difficult as getting people to abandon their four-door sedan for a horse and buggy.

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    16 m
  • Short Fiction Book Reviews- Volume 3
    Apr 1 2025

    Three translations of a classic, high brow literary fiction, a great book from a friend of and mine then a whole lot of pulp. Also something that might be the beginnings of a book by Neal Stephenson.

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    21 m
  • The Case Against Superforecasting
    Mar 23 2025

    Audio for the keystone chapter (Chapter Zero) of the book I'm working on.

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    33 m
  • What Does the Recent German Election Say About Immigration and Integration
    Mar 19 2025

    If integration is straightforward how is it that the former East Germany is so different ideologically from the former West Germany?

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    7 m
  • Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 5
    Mar 12 2025
    1. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by: Timur Kuran

    2. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by: Scott Horton

    3. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1 by: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    4. Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by: Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman

    5. The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 by: Philipp Blom

    6. The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by: Steven Pressfield

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    30 m
  • Meta Discussion and Book News
    Mar 3 2025

    Things are changing. Hopefully in good ways.

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    10 m
  • Books I Want to Read vs. Books I Should Read (Sanderson's Latest)
    Feb 12 2025

    In which I decide that I am not going to read "Wind and Truth". And also that 63 hours on audio is just ridiculous.

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    16 m
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