#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #349:

  1. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
  2. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  3. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
  4. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernard Sanders
  5. The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
  6. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
  7. The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
  8. The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
  9. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer. He is the founding editor of Jacobin, the president of The Nation, and publisher of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and London’s Tribune. Wikipedia


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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #348:

  1. Lakes on Mars by Nathalie A. Cabrol, Edmond A. Grin

Nathalie A. Cabrol is a French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the “High Lakes Project” funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Wikipedia


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#347 – Michael Malice

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #347:

  1. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
  2. The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Lysander Spooner, Emma Goldman, Louis Lingg
  3. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  5. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  6. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
  7. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
  8. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  9. The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
  10. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  11. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
  12. Experiences in Russia 1931
  13. Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen

Michael Krechmer, better known as Michael Malice, is a Ukrainian-American author, and podcaster. He is the host of “YOUR WELCOME”, a video podcast which airs on Podcast One. Malice’s early life was the subject of Harvey Pekar’s 2006 biography Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #128, #150, #178, #200, #253, #402


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#346 – Ed Calderon

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #346:

  1. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
  2. Shoninki: The Secret Teachings of the Ninja: The 17th-Century Manual on the Art of Concealment by Master Natori Masazumi

Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in Mexico.


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#345 – Coffeezilla

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #345:

  1. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla, is an American YouTuber who uploads videos of him uncovering scams, fraudsters and fake gurus that are preying on desperate people with deceptive advertising. Wikitubia


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#344 – Noam Brown

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Noam Brown is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research working on multi-agent artificial intelligence.


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#343 – Roger Gracie

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Roger Gracie is a Brazilian retired mixed martial artist and former professional Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor. Wikipedia


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#342 – Todd Howard

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #342:

  1. The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman

Todd Andrew Howard is an American video game designer, director, and producer. He serves as director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, where he has led the development of the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series. Wikipedia


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#341 – Guido van Rossum

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Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the “benevolent dictator for life” until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #6


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#340 – Chris Tarbell

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #340:

  1. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Christopher Tarbell is a Former FBI agent and cyber security expert who took on Anonymous and Silk Road.


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