Worker & Parasite is a fortnightly podcast on which Stably and I have a conversation about a book we have recently read.

  1. The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman — Sep. 26, 2024
  2. Losing the Long Game by Philip H. Gordon — Sep. 3, 2024
  3. The World That Wasn't by Benn Steil — Aug. 19, 2024
  4. The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford — Jul. 25, 2024
  5. The United States of Paranoia by Jesse Walker — Jul. 8, 2024
  6. The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini — Jun. 25, 2024
  7. Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars — Jun. 14, 2024
  8. The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg — May. 17, 2024
  9. Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu — May. 3, 2024
  10. The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter — Apr. 19, 2024
  11. Technopoly by Neil Postman — Mar. 21, 2024
  12. How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil — Mar. 5, 2024
  13. A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith — Feb. 15, 2024
  14. Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir — Jan. 30, 2024
  15. The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson — Jan. 6, 2024
  16. In Defense of Civilization by Michael RJ Bonner — Nov. 28, 2023
  17. Offside by Andrei Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman — Nov. 7, 2023
  18. The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania — Oct. 19, 2023
  19. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman — Oct. 6, 2023
  20. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul — Sep. 20, 2023
  21. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl — Sep. 7, 2023
  22. The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel — Aug. 22, 2023
  23. Up From Coservatism by Michael Lind — Aug. 10, 2023
  24. End Times by Peter Turchin — Jul. 21, 2023
  25. The White Album & Miami by Joan Didion — Jul. 7, 2023
  26. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom — Jun. 20, 2023
  27. After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried — May. 30, 2023
  28. Outlive by Peter Attia — May. 16, 2023
  29. The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus — May. 2, 2023
  30. The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade — Apr. 11, 2023
  31. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton — Mar. 21, 2023
  32. The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Mueller — Mar. 7, 2023
  33. By the People by Charles Murray — Feb. 14, 2023
  34. Obedience is Freedom by Jacob Phillips — Jan. 31, 2023
  35. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell — Jan. 17, 2023
  36. Western Self-Contempt by Benedict Beckeld — Dec. 19, 2022
  37. The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter — Dec. 4, 2022
  38. Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski — Nov. 21, 2022
  39. Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner — Nov. 6, 2022
  40. Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama — Oct. 25, 2022
  41. Red Card by Ken Bensinger — Oct. 9, 2022
  42. Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin — Sep. 24, 2022
  43. The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman — Sep. 11, 2022
  44. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer — Aug. 28, 2022
  45. The United States of Anonymous by Jeff Kosseff — Aug. 16, 2022
  46. The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan — Jul. 10, 2022
  47. The Machiavellians by James Burnham — Jun. 26, 2022
  48. Bad Religion by Ross Douthat — Jun. 5, 2022
  49. War and the Liberal Conscience — May. 12, 2022
  50. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche — Apr. 19, 2022
  51. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama — Mar. 27, 2022
  52. This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev — Mar. 6, 2022
  53. Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier — Feb. 20, 2022
  54. Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif — Feb. 6, 2022
  55. Wanting by Luke Burgis — Jan. 16, 2022
  56. The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett — Dec. 29, 2021
  57. The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa — Dec. 6, 2021
  58. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright — Nov. 22, 2021
  59. The Aristocracy of Talent by Adrian Wooldridge — Nov. 1, 2021
  60. Waking Up by Sam Harris — Oct. 4, 2021
  61. The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher. — Sep. 20, 2021
  62. On Decline by Andrew Potter — Sep. 7, 2021
  63. After Nationalism by Samuel Goldman — Aug. 23, 2021
  64. Isolationism by Charles A. Kupchan — Jul. 26, 2021
  65. Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja — Jul. 12, 2021
  66. Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran — Jun. 28, 2021
  67. The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset — Jun. 14, 2021
  68. Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin — May. 31, 2021
  69. Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind by Hrishikesh Joshi — May. 17, 2021
  70. The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman — May. 3, 2021
  71. The Final Pagan Generation by Edward J. Watts — Apr. 19, 2021
  72. On Desire by William B. Irvine — Apr. 5, 2021
  73. Nation of Rebels by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter — Mar. 22, 2021
  74. Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams — Mar. 8, 2021
  75. The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch — Feb. 22, 2021
  76. True Names by Vernor Vinge — Feb. 8, 2021
  77. Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann — Jan. 15, 2021
  78. Postjournalism by Andrey Mir — Nov. 13, 2020
  79. Enlightenment's Wake by John Gray — Oct. 23, 2020
  80. History Has Begun by Bruno Maçães — Oct. 4, 2020
  81. The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan — Sep. 15, 2020