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.

Finally recorded the TCW episode

to God’s ears

cheers for the new Grindr profile pic @ifbookspod.bsky.social

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

Hell yes! Thank you @ifbookspod.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social

you can’t make us do this

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.

I visited my village homosexual and all I got was this lousy t-shirt from @ifbookspod.bsky.social

I finally made it www.foxnews.com/media/bluesk...

There is a Patreon only @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode specifically about Kessler and how bad he is. www.patreon.com/posts/glenn-...

Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual ifbookspod.dashery.com

Episode 42: Blink How much damage can a pop science book about the power of intuition do to our nation’s airport security?

If Books Could Kill: The Podcast: The Table @ifbookspod.bsky.social

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.

We made the first 60 minutes of this 80 minute episode free btw podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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.

I'd like to thank Peter and @ifbookspod.bsky.social for finally having the courage to show my field the respect that it deserves.

"Four in ten Republicans now say it is "probably" or "definitely true" that "more people have died from COVID 19 vaccines than from the virus itself" as of Jan 2025 Thanks @ifbookspod.bsky.social for this horrifying tidbit www.kff.org/report-secti...

I would love to hear @princetonupress.bsky.social account for the peer review process for this book. Not violating anonymity—just naming which areas of expertise were consulted. Because the basic methodological flaws here are *breathtaking*

Me hitting "publish" on this episode

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...

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

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.

UVA being number 1 on this "campus free speech" list, when you had a former board member successfully lobby to suspend campus tours that addresses UVA's history w slavery, is evidence of how idiosyncratic and right-wing-coded the cosponsoring organizations' definition of "free speech" really is.

This month's bonus episode is about how anti-woke pundits are responding to the crackdown on wokeness. www.patreon.com/posts/free-s...

Been working on a unifying theory for @ifbookspod.bsky.social No need to thank me, I will simply accept a guest spot if they ever talk about Simon Sinek

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.

I like how half the podcast episodes are like, an in-depth look at the factual claims of a vaguely fascist airport bestseller by the Senior Fellow For Racism Studies at the Joseph and Magda Goebbels Fascism Foundation, and half are "Grunt: The Life-Changing Magic of Manifesting Sex"

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!

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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.

Christmas is here!!!! @ifbookspod.bsky.social

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.

Thanks to @ifbookspod.bsky.social podcast I just stumbled into the strangest denial of bisexuality as a thing in the entire history of things.

Episode 36: You Are A Badass Do you want to take control of your life? It’s a two-step process: (1) defeat your evil subconscious and (2) go into massive amounts of debt.

I now have additional questions

Tomorrow!

Gaze upon the winners and weep my friends