The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy.
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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Bulwark Podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 8 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 7 episodes
The death of expertise
The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Thomas M. Nichols
#3 Mentioned in 6 episodes
The captive mind
Czesław Miłosz
#4 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
JD Vance
#5 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Peter Baker
Susan Glasser
#6 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum
#7 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Everyone Who Has Gone Is Here
The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
#8 Mentioned in 3 episodes
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
#9 Mentioned in 3 episodes
BOWLING ALONE
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert Putnam
#10 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Oppermanns
Lion Feuchtwanger
#11 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Fascism
Dorian Lynskey
Ian Dunt
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Souls of Black Folk
Héctor Arnau
Patricia H. Hinchey
Eugene F. Provenzo
Slingshot Books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Brent Hayes Edwards
Monty
Karl Simrock
Monica M. Elbert
Arnold Rampersad
Shawn Alexander
Prentice Onayemi
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Walter Covell
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Diary of a Man in Despair
Frederich P. Reck-Malleczewen
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Separated
Inside an American Tragedy
Jacob Soboroff
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Cruelty Is the Point
The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
Adam Serwer
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Democracy Awakening
Heather Cox Richardson
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Sirens' Call
How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes
