On the Media
WNYC Studios
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the On the Media podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Turner Diaries
William Luther Pierce
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Earth abides
Michael West
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Second Nature
Scenes from a World Remade
Nathaniel Rich
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Saying No to War
40 Stories of Russians Who Oppose the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Artur Asafiev
Ekaterina Lushnikova
Andrei Grigorev
Ekaterina Maiakovskaia
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
What Is Wrong with Men
Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything
Jessica Crispin
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Station Eleven
Emily St John Mandel
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Pallid Giant
A Tale of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Pierrepont B. Noyes
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On The Beach
Nevil Shute
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Passages
predictable crises of adult life
Gail Sheehy
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Book and Dagger
How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Plot Against the King
Kash Patel
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Everything Must Go
Dorian Lynskey
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Erasing History
How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Jason Stanley
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky
Daniel Ziblatt
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Why Civil Resistance Works
Maria Stephan
Erica Chenoweth
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
O Say Can You Hear?
Mark Clague
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Filter World
How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Horror noire
Robin Means Coleman
