The Reason Roundtable Recommendations

Nick Gillespie

• Blocked and Reported: Episode 212: A Very Messy Breakup (with Billy Binion)

Eric Boehm

• 1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Matt Welch

• Civilizations

Peter Suderman

• Civil War

Nick Gillespie

• The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Juicy Marbles Bone-In Ribs

Matt Welch

• Hyde Park on Hudson

Nick Gillespie

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: S12.E10 - No Lessons Learned

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Peter Suderman

• Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

Matt Welch

• Patriots

Matt Welch

• Kings County Distillery

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Wavelength: The Party Game Show in a Box

Nick Gillespie

• "Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What To Do Instead," by Lisa Selin Davis

Peter Suderman

• "The Hunter," by Tana French

Peter Suderman

• They Live

Nick Gillespie

• 3 Body Problem

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P Carney

Matt Welch

• Marlowe

Nick Gillespie

• Feud: Bette and Joan

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns

Peter Suderman

• Robot Dreams

Matt Welch

• Ancient Apocalypse

Nick Gillespie

• Joan Baez I Am a Noise
• God Save Texas

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

Andrew Heaton

• The Power by Naomi Alderman

Matt Welch

• Wonka

Peter Suderman

• Dune: Part Two

Nick Gillespie

• A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 by Sandra Newman

Matt Welch

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

Peter Suderman

• Yellowstone Season 1

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Intuitive Machines Odysseus Lunar Lander

Nick Gillespie

• The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

Matt Welch

• Trump Sneakers, Saturday Night Live

Eric Boehm

• The Caribbean Series Final

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Zach Weissmueller

• Navalny

Nick Gillespie

• The Charter Cities Atlas by The Adrianople Group and The Charter Cities Institute

Peter Suderman

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Nick Gillespie

• The Greatest Night in Pop

Emma Camp

• Princess Mononoke

Matt Welch

• "The Ballad of Mojo Nixon," Desert Oracle Radio

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Brewster's Millions

Peter Suderman

• Argylle

Nick Gillespie

• True Detective: Night Country
• Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 12

Matt Welch

• Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs sing "Fast Car" at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Symposium by Plato
• Mitchell and Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (The Fourth Wall) by Caridad Svich

Peter Suderman

• Steven Soderbergh's Raiders

Nick Gillespie

• Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Green

Matt Welch

• Happy Hippie Presents: Miley Cyrus & Melanie Safka - Look What They've Done to My Song Ma

Nick Gillespie

• Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll by Lenny Kaye

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Mean Girls

Peter Suderman

• For All Mankind - Season 4

Matt Welch

• A Compassionate Spy

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Nick Gillespie

• American Fiction

Peter Suderman

• The Beekeeper

Matt Welch

• Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

Peter Suderman

• Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

Christian Britschgi

• Fatherland: A Novel by Robert Harris

Nick Gillespie

• Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World by Richard Dorment

Zach Weissmueller

• May December

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Thai? Dai!

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan

Peter Suderman

• Slow Horses

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce

Nick Gillespie

• It's a Wonderful Life

Peter Suderman

• Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan

Matt Welch

• The Fall of Minneapolis

Nick Gillespie

• The Book of Ayn: A Novel by Lexi Freeman

Peter Suderman

• Godzilla Minus One

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Twilight of the Aesir II: Hardcore History with Dan Carlin

Matt Welch

• The American Buffalo by Ken Burns

Peter Suderman

• Silent Night

Nick Gillespie

• The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing by Magnate Wade

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• “Circe, Odysseus, and the Disclosure of Hermes” by Stephen Pimentel in Antigone

Matt Welch

• Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues

Matt Welch

• "The Iron Giant"

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Sons & Sonsability: A Dungeons & Daddies podcast sidequest

Peter Suderman

• "Napoleon"

Nick Gillespie

• Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

Nick Gillespie

• Rustin

Peter Suderman

• Double Chicken Please

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• SpaceX Starship's Second Flight Test

Matt Welch

• It Ain't Over

Peter Suderman

• Shattered Glass

Nick Gillespie

• The Americans

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Veep

Matt Welch

• Sonic Highways: Washington D.C.

Nick Gillespie

• Bitcoin Coffee Table Book: Volume Zero

Peter Suderman

• Pulp Fiction

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, 7) by Martha Wells

Matt Welch

• The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

Peter Suderman

• Priscilla

Nick Gillespie

• Fauda
• How Hamas Executed a Massacre, and How One Israeli with Nine Bullets Fought Back

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Night Owl: A Trasker Thriller by Andrew Mayne

Matt Welch

• Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Loki: Season 2

Nick Gillespie

• Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
• The Men by Sandra Newman

Peter Suderman

• Anatomy of a Fall

Matt Welch

• Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Knife made of meteoric iron at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

Nick Gillespie

• Killers of the Flower Moon

Peter Suderman

• Killers of the Flower Moon

Matt Welch

• Fancy Dance

Nick Gillespie

• Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture, directed by Jessica Solce

Peter Suderman

• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Matt Welch

• American Graffiti

Nick Gillespie

• The Sphere Experience / Postcard from Earth by Darren Aronofsky

Peter Suderman

• Reptile

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• “A Most Egalitarian Profession: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation,” in Journal of Labor Economics Volume 34, Number 3 July 2016 by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

Matt Welch

• Being Mary Tyler Moore

Nick Gillespie

• Bottoms

Peter Suderman

• Stop Making Sense

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Economics of Everyday Things

Matt Welch

• New York Renaissance Faire

Nick Gillespie

• Vintage Annals Archive

Peter Suderman

• A Clockwork Orange

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Hastily Assembled Angel Also Sustains the World by Shane McCrae

Matt Welch

• Tim: Let it Bleed Edition

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Micro Center

Nick Gillespie

• Radical Wolfe

Peter Suderman

• Ahsoka

Matt Welch

• Our Mother the Mountain by Townes Van Zandt

Nick Gillespie

• Apocalypse Not: I Got Engaged in the Mud at Burning Man, by Nick Gillespie

Peter Suderman

• The Postal Service & Death Cab for Cutie: Give Up & Transatlanticism 20th Anniversary Tour

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman

Matt Welch

• Time Bandits

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Reason Crossword by Stella Zawistowski

C.J. Ciaramella

• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Joe Lancaster

• The Afterparty

Matt Welch

• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Good Omens 2

Eric Boehm

• Sleep No More

Zach Weissmueller

• Silo

Matt Welch

• The Band FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana by Peter Aaron

Nick Gillespie

• This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground by Brian Doherty

Peter Suderman

• Double Star, by Robert Heinlein

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories by A.S. Byatt

Matt Welch

• Hudson River Maritime Museum

Nick Gillespie

• Hollywood Must Change -- But How?: Q&A with Rob Long

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman

Peter Suderman

• Dirty Dancing

Matt Welch

• Radio Woodstock

Nick Gillespie

• Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America by Michael Lewis

Peter Suderman

• Hijack

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Naked Came the Detective by Glendale C. Jackson III

Matt Welch

• Nick Gillespie's 60th Birthday Celebration

Nick Gillespie

• The Greencard Game

Peter Suderman

• The Bear, Season 1

Jacob Sullum

• The Dred Scott Case: It's Significance in American Law and Politics, by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Matt Welch

• Oppenheimer

Nick Gillespie

• Oppenheimer

Peter Suderman

• Barbenheimer

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer

Matt Welch

• National Baseball Hall of Fame Weekend

Peter Suderman

• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning — Part One

Nick Gillespie

• Minx

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Campanion

Matt Welch

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

Matt Welch

• "Bitter Rivals. Beloved Friends. Survivors." By Sally Jenkins

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Mutter Museum

Nick Gillespie

• "Arnold"
• FUBAR

Peter Suderman

• "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Peter Suderman

• Silo

Nick Gillespie

• MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023
• Meow Wolf: Convergence Station

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• International Spy Museum

Matt Welch

• Grand Salami Time! by The Baseball Project

Liz Wolfe

• Amy

Kennedy

• The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Starlink-89 (5-12) Mission (Falcon 9) Rocket Launch

Peter Suderman

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• For Colored Nerds: “Watermelon and Red Birds”
• Code Switch: “A Taste of Freedom”

Eric Boehm

• The Ocean At The End Of The Lane at the Noël Coward Theatre

Peter Suderman

• The Flash

Nick Gillespie

• A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

Nick Gillespie

• Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Peter Suderman

• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Matt Welch

• The Wrecking Crew!

Nick Gillespie

• Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Peter Suderman

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Sounds Like A Cult

Matt Welch

• Meet Me in the Bathroom

Peter Suderman

• Succession

Nick Gillespie

• Barry

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Matt Welch

• Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Lost Places: Stories

Nick Gillespie

• Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Peter Suderman

• Fast X

Matt Welch

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Nick Gillespie

• You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Kim's Convenience

Peter Suderman

• The Lost Apothecary: A Novel

Matt Welch

• Museum of Failure

Nick Gillespie

• "Nothing Special" by Nicole Flattery

Peter Suderman

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Matt Welch

• Major League

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Acton Children's Business Fair

Nick Gillespie

• The Great Gatsby

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Atlas Shrugged

Peter Suderman

• The Bushwick Cocktail

Matt Welch

• New York by Lou Reed

Peter Suderman

• The Covenant

Nick Gillespie

• Beef

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Aeropagitica

Matt Welch

• Bugsy Malone

Nick Gillespie

• Physical: 100

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Asterisk Magazine: Issue 02

Peter Suderman

• The Mandalorian: Season 3

Matt Welch

• Cabrini Shrine NYC

Peter Suderman

• John Wick: Chapter 4

Nick Gillespie

• Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation

Liz Wolfe

• Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Matt Welch

• Inside the Mind of a Cat

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Nick Gillespie

• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Peter Suderman

• Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Matt Welch

• Passover Seder

Nick Gillespie

• Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Peter Suderman

• Tetris

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Planet Word Museum

Matt Welch

• Merlin Bird ID App

Nick Gillespie

• Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Reclaiming the Mainstream

Matt Welch

• The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Nick Gillespie

• Dallas Buyers Club

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Terry Pratchett Discworld Novels Series

Robby Soave

• Harry Potter Complete Book Series

Peter Suderman

• Ghostbusters

Nick Gillespie

• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Pinball

Peter Suderman

• The Last of Us: S1. E9

Matt Welch

• World Baseball Classic

Nick Gillespie

• The Martha Mitchell Effect

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Dear Hank & John

Peter Suderman

• The 95th Oscars

Matt Welch

• Columbia Memorial Space Center

Nick Gillespie

• Chris Rock: Selective Outrage

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Star Trek: Deep Space 9: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

Peter Suderman

• The Mandalorian: S3. E1

Matt Welch

• Apollo 10 and 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Denizens Third Party Triple

Emma Camp

• Sold a Story Podcast

Nick Gillespie

• The Philosophy of Modern Song

Matt Welch

• The Holyland Exhibition

Nick Gillespie

• Station Eleven

Zach Weissmueller

• What the Madoff Series Left Out

Peter Suderman

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Women Have Been Misled About Menopause

Nick Gillespie

• The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Substack

Peter Suderman

• Magic Mike's Last Dance

Matt Welch

• Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Poker Face

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle

Nick Gillespie

• Carefully Taught: American History through Broadway Musicals

Matt Welch

• National Baseball Hall of Fame

Eric Boehm

• Learning to be Happy by Kayleigh Goldsworthy

Nick Gillespie

• War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• What We Owe the Future, by William MacAskill

Peter Suderman

• The Last of Us, Episode 3

Peter Suderman

• Brideshead Revisited

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Sula: A Novel by Toni Morrison

Nick Gillespie

• Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone)

Matt Welch

• The Met Cloisters

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Wednesday

Peter Suderman

• M3GAN

Nick Gillespie

• The New Gurus

Matt Welch

• King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild

Peter Suderman

• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• You Must Remember This: A Novel by Kat Rosenfield

Nick Gillespie

• The Invisible Extinction

Matt Welch

• Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

Peter Suderman

• The White Lotus: Season 1

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Nick Gillespie

• Babylon

Matt Welch

• "Cold Cold Heart," by Jerry Lee Lewis

Peter Suderman

• Avatar: The Way of Water

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The 2022 World Cup Final

Nick Gillespie

• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Matt Welch

• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Wolf Hall

Nick Gillespie

• David Blaine Presents Asi Wind's Inner Circle

Peter Suderman

• The Menu

Matt Welch

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

Nick Gillespie

• Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Freedom's Furies

Peter Suderman

• The Fabelmans

Matt Welch

• Above and Beyond

Nick Gillespie

• Straight Line Crazy

Peter Suderman

• Star Wars: Andor

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Ann Rice's Interview with the Vampire

Matt Welch

• Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience

Peter Suderman

• Campari and Cinema

Nick Gillespie

• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Matt Welch

• The City of David

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Long Ships

Eric Boehm

• Being Funny In A Foreigh Language by The 1975

Peter Suderman

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Nick Gillespie

• Hanging with Doctor Z

Nick Gillespie

• Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind, by Robert Draper

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Peter Suderman

• Tar

Matt Welch

• Revolver Special Edition, by The Beatles

Nick Gillespie

• African Founders

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• This Is Going to Hurt

Peter Suderman

• The Peripheral (The Jackpot Trilogy)

Matt Welch

• The Lincoln Project

Fiona Harrigan

• Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

Nick Gillespie

• Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed by Andrew Koppelman

Peter Suderman

• House of the Dragon

Matt Welch

• The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy by Chris Jones and Michael J. Mooney

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Justin Amash Podcast

Nick Gillespie

• 20th century artifacts...from another timeline

Peter Suderman

• Werewolf By Night

Matt Welch

• Bob Poole's spectacular model train project

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Clueless

C.J. Ciaramella

• Cascatelli Pasta
• Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

Peter Suderman

• Athena

Matt Welch

• Northwest Coast Hall, American Museum of Natural History

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns, by Benjamin Constant

Nick Gillespie

• Moonage Daydream

Peter Suderman

• For All Mankind

Matt Welch

• Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Firefly

Nick Gillespie

• Creem, America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

Peter Suderman

• Cult Classic, by Sloane Crosley

Matt Welch

• Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb

Nick Gillespie

• The U.S. and the Holocaust

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Monroe

Peter Suderman

• Barbarian

Matt Welch

• American Masters – Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

Peter Suderman

• Three Thousand Years of Longing

Nick Gillespie

• Wild In The Streets

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Why It’s Ok To Want To Be Rich by Jason Brennan

Matt Welch

• Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Peter Suderman

• Bodies Bodies Bodies

Nick Gillespie

• Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York

Liz Wolfe

• The Bear

Matt Welch

• Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back by Chris Stirewalt

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• House of the Dragon

Peter Suderman

• House of the Dragon

Matt Welch

• Apollo 11

Nick Gillespie

• A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, by Troy Senik

Nick Gillespie

• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, by Nick Gray

Peter Suderman

• Renaissance by Beyonce

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Chantal Tseng’s Literary Cocktails: Project Hail Mary

Matt Welch

• Hey Kids Comics!

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Sandman

Nick Gillespie

• Return of the Artisan: How America Went from Industrial to Handmade by Grant McCracken

Peter Suderman

• The Thing

Matt Welch

• Facing Nolan

Nick Gillespie

• The Rehearsal

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Persuasion

Peter Suderman

• STRAY

Matt Welch

• Bill Schulz's #RunningCommentary

Matt Welch

• National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

Nick Gillespie

• Reason Speakeasy: George Dawes Green

Peter Suderman

• Nope

Peter Suderman

• The Old Man

Nick Gillespie

• The Kingdoms of Savannah: A Novel by George Dawes Green

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

Matt Welch

• "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" by the Darkness

Nick Gillespie

• The Anarchists

Peter Suderman

• The band Karate, live at the Black Cat in D.C.

Stephanie Slade

• The Hong Konger

Matt Welch

• American Ninja Warrior

Nick Gillespie

• Pistol

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

Christian Britschgi

• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Peter Suderman

• Barry

Peter Suderman

• The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq

Nick Gillespie

• Droll Tales, by Iris Smyles

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Heidiworld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

Damon Root

• The Thing

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Normal Gossip

Peter Suderman

• Obi-Wan Kenobi

Matt Welch

• 80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday

Nick Gillespie

• Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix by Brian Doherty

Matt Welch

• Entrepreneur Game

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• W.E.B. Du Bois' Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

Nick Gillespie

• Watch Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

Peter Suderman

• Jurassic World: Dominion

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Letters of Ayn Rand, edited by Michael S. Berliner

Nick Gillespie

• Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special

Peter Suderman

• Top Gun: Maverick

Matt Welch

• Top Gun: Maverick

Peter Suderman

• Slow Horses

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• We Own This City

Nick Gillespie

• Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, by Tom O'Neill and Dan Piepenbring

Matt Welch

• SuperNature, by Ricky Gervais

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Janet Echelman’s “1.8 Renwick”

Nick Gillespie

• The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

Peter Suderman

• Sea of Tranquility: A novel

Matt Welch

• Charlotte's Web (the movie)

Nick Gillespie

• Things Fell Apart

Peter Suderman

• Ambulance

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

Matt Welch

• Prospect Park

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Everything Everywhere All At Once

Peter Suderman

• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Nick Gillespie

• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Matt Welch

• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Nick Gillespie

• The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-50, by Frederick Lewis Allen

Peter Suderman

• Raised by Wolves, Season 2

Matt Welch

• Odessey and Oracle, by the Zombies

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, by Nina Jankowicz
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Matt Welch

• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

Peter Suderman

• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

Nick Gillespie

• Studio 666 by the Foo Fighters

Peter Suderman

• X

Nick Gillespie

• Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience, by Stephen Siff

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Princess Mononoke

Matt Welch

• Catholic Church in Washington D.C.

Matt Welch

• Ryman Auditorium

Nick Gillespie

• Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

Peter Suderman

• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Fiona Harrigan

• Chloë and the Next 20th Century

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Frist Art Museum

Peter Suderman

• Attaboy Nashville

Nick Gillespie

• The Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Matt Welch

• Cocaine and Rhinestones Podcast

Nick Gillespie

• The Dropout

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Episode 68- (BLITZ) Human Resources

Peter Suderman

• Morbius

Matt Welch

• Mean Girls

Peter Suderman

• 94th Annual Academy Awards

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Nick Gillespie

• Life & Beth

Matt Welch

• Red Light Fever by Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• My History Can Beat Up Your Politics Podcast

Matt Welch

• Kyle Dunnigan YouTube Channel

Peter Suderman

• "No One Will Miss Her" by Kat Rosenfield

Nick Gillespie

• Ask A Jew Podcast

Peter Suderman

• Songs From The Stars by Norman Spinrad

Nick Gillespie

• The Andy Warhol Diaries

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Pervak Ukrainian Horseradish Vodka

Matt Welch

• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Nick Gillespie

• "Love In The Time Of Contagion: A Diagnosis," by Laura Kipnis

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "Flying Home And Other Stories," by Ralph Ellison
• "Flying Home," by The Benny Goodman Sextet

Peter Suderman

• The Batman

Matt Welch

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Matt Welch

• The Parent Trap (1998)

Nick Gillespie

• The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum

Peter Suderman

• Parasite (2019)

Stephanie Slade

• edX free online courses

Matt Welch

• Parody video of Trump slaughtering the media

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Dancing with the Stars segments - specifically Tom Delay and Tucker Carlson appearances

Peter Suderman

• Succession

Nick Gillespie

• Peaky Blinders

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "Bleeped" podcast

Peter Suderman

• Joker (2019)
• "What’s the Panic Over ‘Joker’ Really About?"

Nick Gillespie

• Joker (2019)
• Big Mouth

Jacob Sullum

• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight

Matt Welch

• Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
• Hess Collection Winery and Art Museum in Napa, CA

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Anna Wintour MasterClass: "How to Be a Boss"

Peter Suderman

• Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesse-Akner

Nick Gillespie

• Sleeping Octopus Assembly on Psychedelics 2019
• The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum

Matt Welch

• "Teachers in New York City Barred From Attending Climate Protest"

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Mid-90s Seventeen magazines

Nick Gillespie

• Strangers with Candy
• How the Other Half Learns: Equality Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice by Robert Pondiscio
• The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg

Peter Suderman

• Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story (2019)
• Ad Astra (2019)

Matt Welch

• The Cars- 1978 album by The Cars

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Annie Hall
• To Rome with Love (2012)

Nick Gillespie

• Rome Open City (1946)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Cocksucker Blues - album by Rolling Stones

Peter Suderman

• It Chapter Two (2019)

Matt Welch

• The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• West Side Story (1961)
• Avery Trufelman Podcast "Nice Try!" - "Herland" episode especially

Nick Gillespie

• A Trick of Light by Stan Lee and Kat Rosenfield

Peter Suderman

• Debate between David French and Sohrab Ahmari (2019)

Matt Welch

• Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones (2019)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Dark Crystal (1982)
• Plastic Surgery of the Face by Harold Gillies

Nick Gillespie

• Crashing
• Take my Nose…Please!

Peter Suderman

• Norman Fucking Rockwell!- 2019 album by Lana del Rey
• The Matrix (1999) Re-release in theater

Matt Welch

• The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Powers

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• Archive of Our Own
• The Good Place

Nick Gillespie

• Mindhunter

Peter Suderman

• Star Wars news

Matt Welch

• Broadway performance of Barry Manilow- "Could this be the Magic"

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

Nick Gillespie

• Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story Documentary
• The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

Peter Suderman

• Beyond Burger, a plant-based burger alternative

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "Intelligence Squared" Podcast

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Into the Dark

Nick Gillespie

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Peter Suderman

• The Boys

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• We are Legion, We are Bob by Dennis Taylor
• "Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize his Father's Campaign?"

Eric Boehm

• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Nick Gillespie

• The Farewell (2019)

Peter Suderman

• Hobbes and Shaw (2019)

Matt Welch

• The Brothers Steve concert
• Disneyland

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis Taylor

Nick Gillespie

• Black Mirror
• Norm MacDonald Has a Show

Peter Suderman

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Zach Weissmueller

• Veep

Nick Gillespie

• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert Hirschman
• The Essential Hirschman by Albert O. Hirschman

Peter Suderman

• Homecoming
• Mortal Engines (2018)

Eric Boehm

• Stranger Things
• Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog by Dave Barry

Matt Welch

• Moderated a debate between Libertarian candidates in 2020

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "The Torturous History of the Treadmill"
• "Behold, the Millenial Nuns"

Nick Gillespie

• The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics by Kevin Williamson
• NBC News Tweet about man on hovercraft with a gun

Peter Suderman

• Rim of the World

Matt Welch

• USA ladies winning World Cup

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Nick Gillespie

• The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millenials' Economic Future by Joseph C. Sternberg
• Cocktail (1988)

Peter Suderman

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• Hereditary (2018)
• Midsommar (2019)

Matt Welch

• "The Day the Dinosaurs Died"
• Holy Land Museum in Silver Lake, CA

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee

Nick Gillespie

• John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

Peter Suderman

• God of War

Matt Welch

• Washington, D.C. meet and greet for Bill Weld

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "The Antropocene Reviewed" Podcast

Nick Gillespie

• The Heterodox Academy Convention in New York

Peter Suderman

• Toy Story 4

Matt Welch

• "Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood"

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave

Nick Gillespie

• Foundation for Economic Education FEECON David French talk
• Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story (2019)

Peter Suderman

• Borderlands 2: Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary

Matt Welch

• Echo in the Canyon (2019)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson

Nick Gillespie

• Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Peter Suderman

• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson

Matt Welch

• The Conservative Sensibility by George Will
• Fossy Verdun

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Good Omens
• Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog by Dave Barry

Nick Gillespie

• The People V. Feringhetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsburg's Howl by Collins and Skover
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Peter Suderman

• Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Eric Boehm

• Chernobyl

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Fleabag

Nick Gillespie

• The Group by Mary McCarthy

Peter Suderman

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Matt Welch

• NBA playoffs
• Animal Kingdom

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Westworld
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen

Nick Gillespie

• Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West

Peter Suderman

• John Wick Chapter 3- Parabellum (2019)

Matt Welch

• NBA Conference Semi-Finals
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "Was Shakespeare a Woman?"
• The Power by Naomi Alderman

Nick Gillespie

• Game of Thrones
• Veep

Peter Suderman

• Game of Thrones
• My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search for Home by Michael B. Dougherty

Matt Welch

• Begin the Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years by Robert Dean Loury

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "The Pessimists Archive Podcast"

Nick Gillespie

• Game of Thrones
• Bar Rescue

Peter Suderman

• Game of Thrones- Specifically Robby Soave's piece on the relevant episode
• North by Northwest (1959)

Matt Welch

• "Five Reasons We Need Hate Speech"

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Game of Thrones
• HBO promo before Game of Thrones showing

Nick Gillespie

• Bosch
• Game of Thrones- Specifically Robby Soave's recap

Peter Suderman

• Avengers: Endgame(2019)

Matt Welch

• Went to the Morgan Library in Manhattan, NY (J.R.R. Tolkien exhibit)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Our Planet
• Snoop Dogg Voiceover of Planet Earth

Nick Gillespie

• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley(2019)
• Game of Thrones

Peter Suderman

• "Morrowind: An Oral History"

Matt Welch

• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Free Solo (2018)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Game of Thrones

Nick Gillespie

• Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer

Peter Suderman

• Game of Thrones

Matt Welch

• The Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Love, Death, and Robots

Nick Gillespie

• White by Brett Easton

Peter Suderman

• Cold War (2018)

Matt Welch

• The Cure induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame reactions
• This Must Be The Place (2012)

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "Queens of Adventure: Dungeons, Dragons, and Drag Queens" Podcast

Nick Gillespie

• The Brink (2019)

Peter Suderman

• Blade Runner (1982)

Matt Welch

• The Catcher Was a Spy (2019)

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Community

Nick Gillespie

• White by Brett Easton Ellis
• Us (2019)

Peter Suderman

• Get Out (2017)

Matt Welch

• The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian Port

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Harry Potter series

Nick Gillespie

• Dick Dale on Spotify

Peter Suderman

• Tom Clancy's The Division 2