The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Michael Shermer Show:
#1 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning
#2 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The moral arc
Michael Shermer
#3 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Believe
Ross Douthat
#4 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
#5 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The better angels of our nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
#6 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
#7 Mentioned in 4 episodes
HELTER SKELTER
The True Story of the Manson Murders
Curt Gentry
Vincent Bugliosi
#8 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Brothers Karamazov
Larissa Volokhonsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear
#9 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Rationality
From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#10 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
#11 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O’Neill
Dan Piepenbring
#12 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Heaven on Earth
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
Joshua Muravchik
#13 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Generations
Does when you’re born shape who you are?
Bobby Duffy
#14 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Immortal Mind
Denise O'Leary
Michael Egnor
#15 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Just six numbers
The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
Martin Rees
#16 Mentioned in 3 episodes
After the Spike
Dean Spears
Michael Garuso
#17 Mentioned in 3 episodes
How Innovation Works
And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Matt Ridley
#18 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Lewis Perry
#19 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
Henry Lincoln
Richard Leigh
#20 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Cross Purposes
Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy
Jonathan Rauch
