If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
Recent Episodes
2 Better 2 Angels
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Where to find us:
Sources:
- Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze
- Pinker’s response to Epstein allegations
- How Jeffrey Epstein Captivated Harvard
- Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
- It’s Official — Steven Pinker Is Full of Shit
- Pinker, Epstein, Soldier, Spy
- A century of sexual abuse victimisation: A birth cohort analysis
- The prevalence of child sexual abuse with online sexual abuse added
- Have Sexual Abuse and Physical Abuse Declined Since the 1990s?
- Explanations for the Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- Why Have Child Maltreatment and Child Victimization Declined?
- Spanking and Other Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents: Undervaluing Children, Overvaluing Pain
- Were There Really More Hate Crimes Last Year?
- Hate Crime Reported by Victims and Police
- The Sexual Victimization of College Women
- The "Discovery" of Child Abuse
- A Short History of Child Protection in America
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
We're finally discussing a good book! Naomi Klein's "Doppelgänger" chronicles the long, steady descent of another Naomi — Wolf (buddy oof) — from feminist icon to crank conspiracist.
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In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg became an icon for women who wanted to move from middle management at a tech company into upper management at a tech company. Today, Peter and Michael examine the contents of her bestselling book, survey the wreckage of corporate feminism and ask whether women will finally find liberation in the Metaverse.
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not
- Feminism's Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in?
- One Cheer for Lean In
- Is there an implicit quota on women in top management? A large‐sample statistical analysis
- Female tokens in high-prestige work groups: Catalysts or inhibitors of group diversification?
- Want Equal Pay? Get a Union.
- The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
- What Was the Girlboss?
- New Research: Women Who Don’t Negotiate Might Have a Good Reason
- Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap
- What’s It Like Inside the Hive? Managerial Discretion Drives TMT Gender Diversity of Women-Led Firms
- I asked Facebook if I could work part-time from home after I had my baby. They said no—so I quit
- Women in the Workplace 2023
- Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
- Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
This week we're tackling Steven Pinker's 900 page dissection of the reasons why violence, torture and war have declined over the last 10,000 years. Was it an indeterminate mixture of politics, economics, technology and serendipity? Or did some European guys write some books that said murder was bad?
Special thanks to Philip Dwyer, Eleanor Janega, David M. Perry and Doug Thompson for help researching and fact-checking this episode!
Where to find us:
Sources:
- The Darker Angels of Our Nature
- Getting Medieval On Steven Pinker
- The Decline of Violence in the West: From Cultural to Post-Cultural History
- Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
- Herding and Homicide: An Examination of the Nisbett-Reaves Hypothesis
- Peace in Our Time
- John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
- The business class doesn't understand the Enlightenment
- Delusions Of Peace
- Pinker And Progress
- Norbert Elias and the History of Violence
- Modernization, Self-Control And Lethal Violence
- Explaining Long Term Trends in Violent Crime
- The Enlightenment’s Dark Side
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
Before Donald Trump became America's most prominent politician and birth certificate inspector, he spent his days making everyone in New York City slightly uncomfortable. Michael and Peter discuss "The Art of the Deal," Trump’s 1987 bestseller chronicling his exploits as a celebrity slumlord.
Where to find us:
Sources:
- When Donald Trump Took Down Holiday Inns
- The Lost City of Trump
- Who Runs New York Now?
- How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
- Doer and Slumlord Both
- Donald Trump Gets What He Wants
- Donald Trump was a nightmare landlord in the 1980s
- Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!