Media Recommendations and Pandemic Reflections

Julia and Victoria are surprised to find hope and belonging in a new story of humanity with The Dawn of Everything by “the Davids” (Graeber and Wengrow), the anthropological clapback to Sapiens by Harrari.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari

Books by David Graeber: Debt, The Democracy Project, Bullshit Jobs

The Origins of Monsters by David Wengrow

“A Flawed History of Humanity” by David A. Bell (Persuasion)

“Digging for Utopia” by Kwame Anthony Appiah (The New York Review of Books)

“‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history” by Andrew Anthony (The Guardian)

“Against Method: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow” by Ian Morris (American Journal of Archaeologists)

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

108 Nobody's Normal by Roy Richard Grinker — How Culture Creates the Stigma of Mental Health

Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott

Bonus: Historical Fiction with Rebecca Stott

116 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘70s Sci-Fi in Context

Bliss and Blunder by Victoria Gosling

Recommendations:

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff

“The Last Human: A Glimpse Into the Far Future” by Kurzgesagt

If Book Could Kill podcast, specifically “The End of History” episode

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Strike Force Five podcast

MUNA’s self-titled album

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling

It’s a Wonderful World board game