If Books Could Kill
A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
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Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
- Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
- This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.
- From "Democrats should abandon trans rights" to "I want to have sex with a computer." Wake up, honey, it's the worst takes of the year.
- Furiously updating our LinkedIn profiles
- Just recorded our annual Worst Takes of the Year episode!
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- (the actual worst take of the year was Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics The Right Way but we already recorded a whole episode about that)
- Episode 48: Elon Musk, Part 2 Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.
- Part 2 tomorrow
- we’re about to record our worst takes of the year episode. if you have a nominee for the absolute worst pundit take of the year, let us know!
- Episode 47: Elon Musk Walter Isaacson’s definitive biography poses the question: is it ok to be a pathetic, cruel, lying reactionary if it kind of helps you build cars?
- Tomorrow!
- we're running a chunky Black Friday sale on merch, with markdowns on everything from our classic Village Homosexual merch to the new "bitch like a man" design.
- Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
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- well,
- This month's bonus episode is about Zohran Derangement Syndrome, the dangerous malady infecting newsrooms across the globe.
- This month's premium episode is the latest entry in our coverage of Eric Adams, from Trump dropping his charges to the collapse of his mayoral campaign to his ex who made an AI-generated trailer for her book about their whirlwind romance.
- Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People 89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.
- This month's bonus episode is about the pundit reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, from Ezra Klein to the freaks at National Review.
- Episode 44: Summer of Our Discontent Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?
- This month's premium episode is an introduction to Bret Stephens, the most racist tattletale at The New York Times.
- to God’s ears
- reading this passage is like getting a brief glimpse of an upcoming boss in a video game
- Episode 43: He's Just Not That Into You Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
- we are forsaken
- you can’t make us do this
- a devastating read from Abigail
- This month's bonus episode is about Bari Weiss, who overcame her inability to say anything interesting to become the billionaire-whispering head of a small media empire.
- We told him to retire and he did. You’re welcome.
- get the grim reaper meme
- Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual ifbookspod.dashery.com
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- Episode 42: Blink How much damage can a pop science book about the power of intuition do to our nation’s airport security?
- This month's bonus episode is about how the anti-trans panic turned a series of unhinged tweets into a whole Supreme Court case.
- After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.
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- A couple of things: 1. The landing page is a little confusing because it makes it look like we only have t-shirts, but if you click around you’ll find the other items. 2. We’re taking suggestions on other design ideas, so let us know what you want to see!
- Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2 Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
- Episode 40: In Covid's Wake Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
- Peter may have ended the 'organized retail crime' panic but Mike does impact journalism too
- This month's bonus episode is about the rise of the lab leak theory from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by prominent liberal journalists.
- This month's bonus episode is about how anti-woke pundits are responding to the crackdown on wokeness. www.patreon.com/posts/free-s...
- Episode 39: The Let Them Theory The self-help craze sweeping the nation tells you to “let them.” If someone cuts you off in traffic, let them. If your friends are ignoring you, let them. If a popular self-help author plagiarizes your idea and turns it into a book, LET THEM.
- This month’s bonus episode is about Senator Josh Hawley’s book “Manhood.” Learn about masculinity from the dude who encouraged January 6th rioters and then fled in a full sprint when they entered the Capitol.
- Episode 38: Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man Would you like dating advice from a twice-divorced sociopath? Then we have great news!
- Hell.
- Episode 37: Of Boys And Men Conservatives say American masculinity is under attack from a cancerous, mendacious progressive movement. Centrists say the same thing, but more politely. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
- This month’s bonus episode is about Pamela Paul, the former NYT Opinion columnist who dreamed of a world where no one dreamed.
- This month’s bonus episode is a mailbag. We discuss Trump, advise on navigating media in the age of misinformation, and provide an update on Peter’s shelf.
