Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University.  He is the NYT bestselling author of Connected, Blueprint, and Apollo's Arrow.  Nicholas Christakis Book Recommendations:  The Illiad - Homer  The Last Days of Socrates - Plato Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankel  Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert  The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Amelia Pang is an award-winning, investigative journalist of Uyghur and Chinese descent. Her work has been published in The New Republic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Sunday Review, among other publications. She is currently an editor at EdTech Magazine.  Her most recent book, which I highly recommend is called Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods, published on February 2, 2021, by Algonquin Books.  Amelia Pang Book Recommendations: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Road - Cormac McCarthy About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Louis Menand is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Anne T. and Robert M.Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine and has served as an associate editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club earned him the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Most recently he is the author of the triumphant new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, which was published in April 2021 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Louis Menand Book Recommendations: Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham -  Carolyn Brown Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt Warhol - Blake Gopnik Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, and The Greedy Hand. Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. She chairs the Hayek Prize, a prize for free market books given by the Manhattan Institute. She is a presidential scholar at Kings College/New York. Most recently she is the author of Great Society: A New History, which is a stunning analysis of the social welfare policies passed in the 1960s.  Amity Shlaes Book Recommendations:  The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Amity Shlaes Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Jeffrey Garten  Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition - Jean M. Yarbrough The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs - John Cogan About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London. He has worked across most public policy areas in his career of nearly 30 years in policy research and evaluation, including being seconded to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. His most recent book The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think was published on November 9th, 2021 by Basic Books.  Bobby Duffy Book Recommendations: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America - James Davison Hunter Why We're Polarized - Ezra Klein  Uncivil Agreement - Lilliana Mason About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is called "Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution", published on November 9th, 2021 by Doubleday. His substack, "A User's Guide to History" can be found using this link here. H.W. Brands Book Recommendations:  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams Moby Dick - Herman Melville  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Dr. Darrell Bricker holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University, where he was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow, and a BA and MA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Bricker is the current Global CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, polling, research, marketing, and analysis company. He is the author of 6 books, most recently the fascinating book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline."  Darrell Bricker Book Recommendations:  Eichman in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt  Washington: A Life - Ron Chernow  Grant - Ron Chernow  Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts  Napoleon: A Life - Andrew Roberts Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Sidney Blumenthal is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He was a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of numerous bestselling books including "The Clinton Wars", "The Rise of the Counter Establishment", and "The Permanent Campaign." He's embarking on an ambitious 5-volume series on the political life of President Abraham Lincoln.  Three of five of his books are now on sale including, "A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849", "Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856", and most recently "All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860'. Sidney Blumenthal Book Recommendations:  Life of Andrew Jackson - James Parton JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 - Fredrik Logevall Landmark Book Series on American History - Various Authors USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) - John Dos Passos The Lanny Budd Novels - Upton Sinclair  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

This is one of my favorite conversations so far. So grateful to be able to share this with all of you.  Jordan Blashek is a Republican, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and an aspiring business leader. After graduating from Princeton University in 2009, he spent five years in the Marines as an infantry officer and was awarded two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University, and currently works at a venture firm for public benefit created by the CEO of Alphabet. He is also the co-author of the incredible book Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground with his friend and travel buddy Christopher Haugh. Jordan Blashek Book Recommendations: (THESE ARE AFFILIATE LINKS)  The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt  Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb  America's Constitution - Akhil Reed Amar  The Seventh Sense - Joshua Cooper Ramo  Speech Recommendations: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.  The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Thomas Dyja worked in publishing for more than a decade before becoming a writer. He is the author of 6 books including The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream and most recently the wonderful new book New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation.  Thomas Dyja Book Recommendations: The Summer Book - Tove Jansson  The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave  Gay New York - George Chauncey  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE