Tom Nichols Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tom Nichols

@CharlesPPierce @MikeReese2 I have read three Ayn Rand works: Atlas Shrugged, The Virtue of Selfishness, and Anthem. I think she is...not a good writer and morally deficient, and I know that my libertarian pals will slag me for saying it.

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RT @INETeconomics: .@radiofreetom discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decli…

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If you think I have strong feelings about James Bond, wait'll you see how touchy I get about the film version of The Matarese Circle, which is a truly great spy novel, and which has been in Development Hell for years. https://twitter.com/Jayda1850/status/1486740437423607813

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@TannerThomason @RickCampbell4 @kallym Allow me to recommend "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam, which details the unspooling of civic life in America. Much of the progress made in the 1960s and 1970s was possible because of a more civic America that no longer exists.

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A teacher's fantasy that gives me goosebumps at the end - as long as I don't pay too much attention to the melodrama in the middle and the completely unrealistic finale in which a pickup high school band sounds like the Boston Pops. The tear in Jay Thomas's eye gets me. https://t.co/tIrLYx4jCj

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I know it's almost passe now to think of AIDS, but maybe listen to this lovely 1993 Carter Burwell theme to "And The Band Played On", the HBO movie that was, for all its virtues, inferior to the book. (RIP Randy Shilts) https://t.co/0KJGmboW2g

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@CharlesPPierce @MikeReese2 I have read three Ayn Rand works: Atlas Shrugged, The Virtue of Selfishness, and Anthem. I think she is...not a good writer and morally deficient, and I know that my libertarian pals will slag me for saying it.

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What Nick writes here is pretty much what I said in my last book, and what Fukuyama warned about in 1993 and Hoffer warned about in 1951. "Terrible, terrible freedom" in the sense that we refuse to be adults who grasp that freedom and embrace its concurrent *responsibilities* https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1476663092637573127

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If you think I have strong feelings about James Bond, wait'll you see how touchy I get about the film version of The Matarese Circle, which is a truly great spy novel, and which has been in Development Hell for years. https://twitter.com/Jayda1850/status/1486740437423607813

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My old friend Cathal Nolan has written a book for @OxUniPress on mercy in wartime. (I endorsed it - quite a read.) You can enter a drawing for a free copy here: https://t.co/TpdlnGkwRk https://t.co/UuXyDgbv6Y

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