Books recommended on The Ben Shapiro Show

Ben Shapiro and guests brought up 12 books across 7 recent episodes — each with the episode, the minute, and what was said.

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1 Common SenseThomas PaineAmazon 1 episode
2 CommunionJ.D. VanceAmazon 1 episode
3 Declaration of IndependenceThomas JeffersonAmazon 1 episode
4 Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disordersAmerican Psychiatric AssociationAmazon 1 episode
5 Federalist PapersHamilton, AlexanderAmazon 1 episode
6 It's OK to Be Angry about CapitalismBernie SandersAmazon 1 episode
7 PreyAyaan Hirsi AliAmazon 1 episode
8 Rules of CivilityAmor TowlesAmazon 1 episode
9 The 1619 ProjectNikole Hannah-JonesAmazon 1 episode
10 The Communist ManifestoMarx-EngelsAmazon 1 episode
11 The road to freedomBrooks, Arthur C.Amazon 1 episode
12 The Wealth of NationsAdam SmithAmazon 1 episode

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders — American Psychiatric AssociationCriticised

at 40:47 ▶

“I think it's readily apparent that DSM is a joke.”

Federalist Papers — Hamilton, AlexanderDiscussed

at 4:04 ▶

“James Madison described the task well in Federalist 51. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”
Rules of Civility — Amor TowlesDiscussed

at 5:24 ▶

“Washington himself attempted to curb his bad habits in his childhood by copying out the rules of civility. That was a series of maxims”
The 1619 Project — Nikole Hannah-JonesDiscussed

at 11:04 ▶

“the 1619 project idea of America that America's foundations didn't lie in the principles of liberty espoused and enshrined by Washington but in slavery”
Declaration of Independence — Thomas JeffersonCriticised

at 12:26 ▶

“The Declaration of Independence was inherently flawed because individual rights are basically moral permission for evil”

Communion — J.D. VanceDiscussed

at 30:46 ▶

“if you read Communion, which is his new book, he really, really does not like the free market, like at all”

It's OK to Be Angry about Capitalism — Bernie SandersDiscussed

at 2:43 ▶

“Bernie in his book, It's okay to be angry about capitalism, which again, the whole book is there are so many things wrong with and I don't like any of those things.”
The road to freedom — Brooks, Arthur C.Discussed

at 38:46 ▶

“Sometimes I said he wrote a book many many years ago called The Road to Freedom. I think he wrote it 16 years ago.”

Prey — Ayaan Hirsi AliMentioned

at 41:09 ▶

“She's of course a world-famous human rights activist, the author of multiple fantastic books including Prey.”

The Wealth of Nations — Adam SmithDiscussed

at 7:36:54 ▶

“I don't think it's a coincidence that in 1776 you have both the Declaration of Independence and you have the Wealth of Nations that was published.”
Common Sense — Thomas PaineDiscussed

at 7:36:54 ▶

“Also, Common Sense by Tom by by Thomas Paine. So, I think that we should be separating really capitalism and our markets and business from politics as much as we can.”

The Communist Manifesto — Marx-EngelsDiscussed

at 5:22 ▶

“Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto, Revolution cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production”