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Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right.

3 books on the record · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Mar 2026

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Ball Four by Jim Bouton

And and um and then I guess if if I could recommend a baseball book, a book that really sort of changed the way I sort of I don't know [snorts] look at both sports and writing is is Ball Four by Jim Boutton. I don't know if you know that book, but

on a podcast · 27 Mar 2026 · Report

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Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

Anthony Lucas's Common Ground, which is a book about busing in Boston. And um which is kind of the first um political event that I have any memory of from, you know, from being a child.

on a podcast · 27 Mar 2026 · Report

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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Oh, I think everyone should read the Gulag Archipelago. I think that that is such a wonderful book. I I And this is Alexander Soljaniten. It's a It's a story of his time in the, you know, a Soviet prison camp, but it's so much more than that. It's three volumes. It's got a history of Russia. It's got a history of the Soviet Union. It's got um well, it's got it's got poetry.

on a podcast · 27 Mar 2026 · Report

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