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Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson
“there's a wonderful book”
“there's a wonderful book by the sociologist orlando patterson called slavery and social death that was published in 1982”— Glenn Loury
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Knowledge and Decisions
Thomas Sowell
“one of tom's books i deeply admire”
“one of tom's books i deeply admire knowledge and decisions is an extension of the haiki and arguments about the limits of central planning”— Glenn Loury
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
“i read this wonderful book”
“i read this wonderful book called the swerve it's about lucretius it's about the nature of things which is this great classical work”— Glenn Loury
The guest's own work
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The Case for Black Patriotism
Glenn Loury
“you have an article that you wrote called the case for black patriotism oh yeah so i should also say”— Lex Fridman
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
“he has a trilogy of the three-body problem the dark forest and death's end those are the three books of chicks and lou's trilogy”— Glenn Loury
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The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
“he has a trilogy of the three-body problem the dark forest and death's end those are the three books of chicks and lou's trilogy”— Glenn Loury
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Death's End
Cixin Liu
“he has a trilogy of the three-body problem the dark forest and death's end those are the three books of chicks and lou's trilogy”— Glenn Loury
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Randall Kennedy
“my friend randall kennedy the law professor at harvard university has a book called nigger and he uses the word in the title of the book”— Glenn Loury
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The Bell Curve
Charles Murray
“charles murray is a popular social science writer who is famous for his book about iq the bell curve”— Glenn Loury
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The Spiral of Silence
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
“i once read this book by a german political scientist called elizabeth neula neumann the book was called the spiral of silence”— Glenn Loury
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Capital
Karl Marx
“you read marx marx was an important figure in the history of the west and i think mark should be read and capital three volumes etc”— Glenn Loury
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An American Dilemma
Gunnar Myrdal
“gunnar maridol the swedish economist wrote about economic development wrote a famous two-volume work an american dilemma about the status of blacks”— Glenn Loury
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
“he has a passage in portrait of an artist as a young man in which he says do you know what ireland is ireland is an old sow that eats her pharaoh”— Glenn Loury
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
“let me just mention the great ralph ellison the african-american writer invisible man is his masterpiece embodied this spirit”— Glenn Loury
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“they may not be reading my stuff in a hundred years as people will certainly be reading ulysses in a hundred years”— Glenn Loury
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On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)
Lucretius
“it's about the nature of things which is this great classical work from the roman period by this guy lucretius”— Glenn Loury
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As I Lay Dying
Richard John Neuhaus
“there is a book by richard john newhouse the theologian called as i light as i lay dying as i lay dying richard john newhouse”— Glenn Loury
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