#403 – Lisa Randall

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #403:

1. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
2. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall
3. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
4. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

#402 – Michael Malice

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #402:

1. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
2. The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice
3. The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice
4. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
5. Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar
6. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
7. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
8. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
9. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10. The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism by Joel Carmichael
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. 1984 by George Orwell
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. The Plague by Albert Camus

#401 – John Mearsheimer

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #401:

1. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
2. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
3. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
4. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
5. The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
6. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
7. How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev

#400 – Elon Musk

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #400:

1. The Culture by Iain M. Banks
2. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

#399 – Jared Kushner

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #399:

1. Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner
2. The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman
3. Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace by Lawrence Wright
4. The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
5. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
6. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury
7. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #398:

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#397 – Greg Lukianoff

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #397:

1. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
2. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
3. Freedom from Speech by Greg Lukianoff
4. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate by Greg Lukianoff
5. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
6. The Qur’an
7. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith
8. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
9. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
10. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness by John L. Jackson Jr.
11. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
12. Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us by Evan Mandery

Gregory Christopher Lukianoff is an American lawyer, journalist, author and activist who serves as the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He previously served as FIRE’s first director of legal and public advocacy until he was appointed president in 2006. Wikipedia

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#396 – James Sexton

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #396:

1. How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Staying Together by James J. Sexton

James J. Sexton is a divorce attorney and author known for his work in the field of family law.

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#395 – Walter Isaacson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #395:

1. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
2. All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
5. Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
6. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
7. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
8. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
9. The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
10. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
11. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
12. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Walter Seff Isaacson is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time. Wikipedia

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#394 – Neri Oxman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #394:

1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli designer and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she led the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. Wikipedia

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