We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other

“Maybe I'll go with The Revolution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek, which is a good statement of the evolutionary basis of liberty and why checks and balances are necessary.”

“Marian Tupi has a great book called Superabundance, which discusses the progress of economics over time and emphasizes gratitude for our civilization.”

“I think that Democracy in America by de Tocqueville is still the best description of what America is and in many ways ought to be.”

“It's about his new book, Lions and Scavengers. And talking to him about it surprised me. You learn things talking to people that you don't expect.”

“In his book, The True Believer, Eric Hoffer explains that those who tear down the societies in which they live are typically what he terms inferiors.”

“The way that I describe it in this book, and I give a sort of more fulsome definition in an earlier book that I did called The Right Side of History, is the tension between Jerusalem and Athens.”

“The author discusses the book 'Dominion' by Tom Holland, which argues that modern beliefs about individual dignity and rights are rooted in Christianity.”

“The book is largely written against Graves' politics, this idea that you see a system, you don't like the system, it must be that the system is to fall.”

“The discussion contrasts J.D. Vance's current political stance with the ideology presented in his book 'Hillbillyology', suggesting a shift in his views.”

“I wrote a book about polarization. I was on your show for a book about polarization that I published in early 2020.”