If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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Have you ever wanted to escape the grind and follow your dreams? This week we're discussing "The 4-Hour Workweek," which reveals that all you need is a plan, a willingness to take risks and a modestly sized fraud operation built on Third World labor.
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- The Fraud and the Four-Hour Workweek
- Revisiting "The 4-Hour Workweek"
- New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!
- From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success
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But her e-mails! Michael explains the non-scandal that captivated the mainstream media in 2016 while Peter attempts to sow the podcast with anti-Hillary sentiment.
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- No Ivory Tower : Mccarthyism And The Universities
- The Fire Is Upon Us
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
- The Passion of William F. Buckley: Academic Freedom, Conspiratorial Conservatism, and the Rise of the Postwar Right
- Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
- Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955
- Debunking a Longstanding Myth About William F. Buckley
- How William F. Buckley Jr.’s Right-Wing College Crusade Paved the Way for Ron DeSantis
- The Right v. Higher Education: Change and Continuity
- The Buckleys: A Family Examined
- The Academic Elite Goes to Washington, and to War
- What About “God and Man”?
- The Attack on Yale
- The academy on the firing line: William F. Buckley, Jr.'s God and Man at Yale and the modern conservative critique of higher education
- Conservatives charge that universities are hotbeds of liberalism. They’re wrong.
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For this month's bonus episode we dissected Harry Frankfurt's gloriously brief bestseller and applied the concept to our favorite op-ed page.
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Who poses the greatest threat to democracy? Is it the movement that openly identifies with the symbols, goals and policies of fascist governments? Or is it the median bureaucrat at the Department of Health and Human Services?
In 2008, a National Review nepo-baby attempted to answer this vexing question.
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- History News Network: A Symposium on Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism
- The Nature of Fascism
- How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
- The Anatomy of Fascism
- Mussolini and Fascism: The View From America
- The Return of Old-Fashioned Racism to White Americans’ Partisan Preferences in the Early Obama Era
- Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
- What Hillary Rodham Clinton Really Said About Children’s Rights and Child Policy
- The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
- A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change
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