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    If Books Could Kill

    The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds

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    Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream Jun 05, 2025
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    By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's newsletter
    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase


    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    The Let Them Theory Apr 23, 2025
    Show notes

    Peter and Michael discuss The Let Them Theory, a self-help guide to seeking bliss through unmitigated complacency.

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's newsletter
    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • How to stop screwing yourself over
    • Mel Robbins and Plagiarism
    • Let her? Army wife claims Mel Robbins stole her idea for blockbuster self-help book
    • Mel Robbins’s “Let Them” theory: really that simple?
    • Breathing Practices for Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Conceptual Framework of Implementation Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review of the Published Literature
    • Polarization in America
    • The 5 Resets
    • Impact of health warning labels on selection and consumption of food and alcohol products: systematic review with meta-analysis

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    Josh Hawley's "Manhood" [TEASER] Mar 31, 2025
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    Steve Harvey's "Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man" Mar 28, 2025
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    Are you a single lady struggling to find love with a man? Don't fret! A twice-divorced game show host who thinks conversation is for women is here to help.

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's newsletter
    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    Of Boys And Men Mar 06, 2025
    Show notes

    Who's to blame for the crisis of American masculinity? On the right, politicians tell men that they being oppressed by feminists and must reassert their manhood by supporting an authoritarian regime. And on the left, users of social media are often very irritating to people who write airport books.

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's newsletter
    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Conscientiousness as a Predictor of the Gender Gap in Academic Achievement
    • Gender Differences in Scholastic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
    • Early Childhood Behavior Problems and the Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States
    • Where The Boys Aren’t
    • The gender achievement gap in grades and standardised tests
    • The State of Gender Equality for U.S. Adolescents
    • Highlights of women’s earnings in 2023
    • The gender gap in educational outcomes in Norway
    • Social Influences And The Gender Gap In Disruptive Behavior
    • Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap
    • What might interrupt men's suicide?
    • As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
    • The Cost of Caring
    • Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten?
    • Age of Entry to Kindergarten and Children’s Academic Achievement
    • The Effect of Age at School Entry on Reading Achievement Scores
    • Beyond the Pros and Cons of Redshirting
    • Self- Control and the Developing Brain
    • Importance of Sex Differences in Impulse Control and Addictions
    • It is a myth that boys lag behind in brain development

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    You Are A Badass Jan 23, 2025
    Show notes

    Peter and Michael dissect Jen Sincero's "You are a Badass," a book that answers the question: What if "The Secret" was written in the painful, try-hard style of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"? Featuring a surprise digression about Sincero's other, even worse books.
    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Savy Writes Books

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    What's The Matter With Kansas? Dec 06, 2024
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    In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes one hour and six minutes to explain.
    Special thanks to Julia Valdés for her help with this episode!
    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: The Emerging Democratic Majority
    • What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?
    • Class is Dismissed
    • The White Working Class and the Democratic Party
    • It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.
    • How the diploma divide came to dominate American politics
    • The 'Diploma Divide': Does It Exist for Racial and Ethnic Minorities?
    • Blind Retrospection: Why Shark Attacks Are Bad For Democracy
    • Nationally poor, locally rich: Income and local context in the 2016 presidential election
    • Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
    • Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
    • Political Landscapes of Donald Trump
    • The White Working Class and the 2016 Election
    • Partisanship by family income, home ownership, union membership and veteran status
    • The Elites Had It Coming
    • What Explains Educational Realignment Among White Americans?

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    Sam Harris's "The End of Faith" Nov 04, 2024
    Show notes

    Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Views of Violence
    • Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System
    • The same motive for anti-US 'terrorism' is cited over and over
    • Does intuitive mindset influence belief in God?
    • Terrorism science: 5 insights into jihad in Europe
    • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief
    • What Is "Islamophobia"?
    • Essays In Defense of Profiling
    • To Profile or Not to Profile
    • Chapter 2 The Making of Jihadist Social Actors in Europe in
    • Who are the new jihadis?
    • Disbelief - Prometheus Books
    • God and the Ivory Tower
    • Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
    • The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate
    • Talking to the Enemy

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    Who Moved My Cheese? Oct 10, 2024
    Show notes

    What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.
    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
    • Downsizing in America
    • Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
    • The Disposable American
    • Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78
    • What was the New Economy?
    • Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter
    • Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading
    • Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?
    • On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties
    • Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006
    • Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession
    • Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?
    • Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
    • Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market
    • A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize
    • Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning
    • The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

    Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

    UNLOCKED: Eric Adams Sep 26, 2024
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    New York’s favorite criminal is in the news, so here is our episode about his ridiculous life.
    To hear all of our bonus episodes, support us on Patreon:
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