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If Books Could Kill

The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds

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TRIGGER WARNING: if you're a SNOWFLAKE college professor afraid of how your students are expres

The nation's most prestigious newspaper insists on asking a very stupid question. So for this m

"If your thesis doesn't hold up to obvious criticisms, there's a chance that your the

Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" changed political discourse

In December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China. In May 2021, America experienced o

In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not g

Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" sold millions of copies based on a simple premise: All of

How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again. Sup

Our first premium episode is a deep dive into the blog of the infamously (and  dubiously) "canc

Neil Strauss's "The Game" aimed to teach any man how to hook up with beautiful women.

David Brooks became liberals' famous conservative by telling them what they wanted to hear. But

In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell posited that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a

In 2005, two men named Steven and Stephen published the quintessential airport book. In 2022, two me