Skip to content
Worker and Parasite cover art

All Episodes

Worker and Parasite — 113 episodes · page 1 of 2

#
Title
1

Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin

2

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie

3

The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel

4

The God Test by Robert Wright

5

Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull

6

The Special One by Diego Torres

7

Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga

8

Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola

9

Leap of Faith by Michael J. Mazarr

10

The Digital Reversal by Andrey Mir

11

On Photography by Susan Sontag

12

On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer

13

The Return of the Common Good by Stefan Borg

14

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

15

Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough

16

The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer

17

Total Defense by Andrew Preston

18

The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker

19

Why Nothing Works by Marc J. Dunkelman

20

The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian

21

The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

22

The Art of Happiness by Epicurus

23

Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Part 2)

24

Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Part 1)

25

A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney

26

Kaiser! by Rob Smyth

27

Fat Leonard by Craig Whitlock

28

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

29

The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin

30

The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie

31

The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini

32

What Went Wrong with Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma

33

The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman

34

Losing the Long Game by Philip H. Gordon

35

The World That Wasn't by Benn Steil

36

The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford

37

The United States of Paranoia by Jesse Walker

38

The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini

39

Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars

40

The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

41

Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu

42

The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter

43

Technopoly by Neil Postman

44

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

45

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

46

Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir

47

The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson

48

In Defense of Civilization by Michael RJ Bonner

49

Offside by Andrei Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman

50

The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania

51

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

52

Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul

53

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

54

The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel

55

Up From Coservatism by Michael Lind

56

End Times by Peter Turchin

57

The White Album & Miami by Joan Didion

58

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

59

After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried

60

Outlive by Peter Attia

61

The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus

62

The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade

63

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

64

The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Mueller

65

By the People by Charles Murray

66

Obedience is Freedom by Jacob Phillips

67

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell

68

Western Self-Contempt by Benedict Beckeld

69

The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter

70

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

71

Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner

72

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

73

Red Card by Ken Bensinger

74

Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin

75

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

76

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

77

The United States of Anonymous by Jeff Kosseff

78

The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan

79

The Machiavellians by James Burnham

80

Bad Religion by Ross Douthat

81

War and the Liberal Conscience

82

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

83

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

84

This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev

85

Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier

86

Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif

87

Wanting by Luke Burgis

88

The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

89

The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa

90

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

91

The Aristocracy of Talent by Adrian Wooldridge

92

Waking Up by Sam Harris

93

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher.

94

On Decline by Andrew Potter

95

After Nationalism by Samuel Goldman

96

Isolationism by Charles A. Kupchan

97

Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja

98

Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran

99

The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset

100

Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin