A podcast about books
Worker & Parasite
A fortnightly podcast on which Stably and I take a single book—philosophy, history, politics, fiction—and use it to think aloud about power, belief, and human nature. Recurring themes include modernity’s costs, institutional decay, post-religious belief, mass psychology, and decline without collapse.
The Shelf
113 books since September 2020
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113
Buddha's Little Finger
Sep 25, 2026
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112
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
Sep 10, 2026
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111
The Great Leveler
Aug 11, 2026
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110
The God Test
Jul 16, 2026
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109
Addiction by Design
Jul 2, 2026
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108
The Special One
Jun 16, 2026
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107
Homo Ludens
Jun 2, 2026
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106
Ride the Tiger
Apr 20, 2026
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105
Leap of Faith
Mar 24, 2026
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104
The Digital Reversal
Mar 10, 2026
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103
On Photography
Feb 25, 2026
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102
On the Suffering of the World
Jan 27, 2026
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101
The Return of the Common Good
Dec 30, 2025
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100
The Human Stain
Dec 8, 2025
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99
Days of Rage
Nov 6, 2025
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98
The Invention of Good and Evil
Oct 15, 2025
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97
Total Defense
Sep 18, 2025
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96
The Dorito Effect
Aug 14, 2025
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95
Why Nothing Works
Jul 17, 2025
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94
The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
Jun 5, 2025
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93
The Unaccountability Machine
May 18, 2025
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92
The Art of Happiness
May 4, 2025
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91
Huey Long
Apr 17, 2025
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90
Huey Long
Mar 15, 2025
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89
A Generation of Sociopaths
Feb 18, 2025
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88
Kaiser!
Jan 28, 2025
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87
Fat Leonard
Jan 17, 2025
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86
Heart of a Dog
Jan 2, 2025
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85
The Image
Dec 17, 2024
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84
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Nov 24, 2024
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83
The Prophets of Doom
Nov 7, 2024
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82
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Oct 22, 2024
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81
The Case Against Reality
Sep 26, 2024
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80
Losing the Long Game
Sep 3, 2024
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79
The World That Wasn't
Aug 19, 2024
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78
The World Beyond Your Head
Jul 25, 2024
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77
The United States of Paranoia
Jul 8, 2024
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76
The Populist Delusion
Jun 25, 2024
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75
Lessons in Stoicism
Jun 14, 2024
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74
The Formula
May 17, 2024
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73
Virtue Hoarders
May 3, 2024
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72
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Apr 19, 2024
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71
Technopoly
Mar 21, 2024
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70
How the World Really Works
Mar 5, 2024
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69
A City on Mars
Feb 15, 2024
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68
Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror
Jan 30, 2024
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67
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Jan 6, 2024
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66
In Defense of Civilization
Nov 28, 2023
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65
Offside
Nov 7, 2023
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64
The Origins of Woke
Oct 19, 2023
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63
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Oct 6, 2023
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62
Transformative Experience
Sep 20, 2023
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61
Man's Search for Meaning
Sep 7, 2023
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60
The World Behind the World
Aug 22, 2023
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59
Up From Coservatism
Aug 10, 2023
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58
End Times
Jul 21, 2023
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57
The White Album & Miami
Jul 7, 2023
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56
The Closing of the American Mind
Jun 20, 2023
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55
After Liberalism
May 30, 2023
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54
Outlive
May 16, 2023
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53
The End of Equality
May 2, 2023
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52
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Apr 11, 2023
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51
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Mar 21, 2023
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50
The Mind and the Market
Mar 7, 2023
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49
By the People
Feb 14, 2023
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48
Obedience is Freedom
Jan 31, 2023
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47
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Jan 17, 2023
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46
Western Self-Contempt
Dec 19, 2022
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45
The Authenticity Hoax
Dec 4, 2022
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44
Soccernomics
Nov 21, 2022
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43
Nostalgia for the Absolute
Nov 6, 2022
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42
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Oct 25, 2022
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41
Red Card
Oct 9, 2022
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40
Telluria
Sep 24, 2022
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39
The Nineties
Sep 11, 2022
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38
The True Believer
Aug 28, 2022
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37
The United States of Anonymous
Aug 16, 2022
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36
The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Jul 10, 2022
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35
The Machiavellians
Jun 26, 2022
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34
Bad Religion
Jun 5, 2022
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33
War and the Liberal Conscience
May 12, 2022
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32
Beyond Good and Evil
Apr 19, 2022
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31
The End of History and the Last Man
Mar 27, 2022
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30
This Is Not Propaganda
Mar 6, 2022
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29
Not Born Yesterday
Feb 20, 2022
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28
Against Everything: Essays
Feb 6, 2022
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27
Wanting
Jan 16, 2022
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26
The Sum of Small Things
Dec 29, 2021
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25
The Uncontrollability of the World
Dec 6, 2021
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24
The Evolution of God
Nov 22, 2021
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23
The Aristocracy of Talent
Nov 1, 2021
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22
Waking Up
Oct 4, 2021
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21
The Benedict Option
Sep 20, 2021
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20
On Decline
Sep 7, 2021
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19
After Nationalism
Aug 23, 2021
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18
Isolationism
Jul 26, 2021
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17
Great Founder Theory
Jul 12, 2021
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16
Private Truths, Public Lies
Jun 28, 2021
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15
The Revolt of the Masses
Jun 14, 2021
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14
Unsettled
May 31, 2021
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13
Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind
May 17, 2021
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12
The Storm Before the Calm
May 3, 2021
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11
The Final Pagan Generation
Apr 19, 2021
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10
On Desire
Apr 5, 2021
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9
Nation of Rebels
Mar 22, 2021
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8
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Mar 8, 2021
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7
The Culture of Narcissism
Feb 22, 2021
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6
True Names
Feb 8, 2021
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5
Whiteshift
Jan 15, 2021
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4
Postjournalism
Nov 13, 2020
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3
Enlightenment's Wake
Oct 23, 2020
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2
History Has Begun
Oct 4, 2020
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1
The Jungle Grows Back
Sep 15, 2020
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