Um, I have been reading uh, Speak Memory by Vladimir Nambacov, Nbachov, however you want to pronounce it, which is his sort of memoir uh, mostly of his boyhood as a Russian aristocrat before the Russian the Russian Revolution. Uh, I would I would recommend that to people who don't want to be post-literate, who want to be very very literate indeed.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Uh I will recommend uh Julian Jackson's biography of Charles de Gaulle [snorts] on general principles. I haven't read it recently but just strong strong recommend there.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And I will finally recommend the most recent book that I read to my children which is Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island. So those are three solid recommendations and I'm happy to leave you with them. Rosetta, thank you very much.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
I think people who are interested in this subject, interested in the conversation, one one recommendation would be a book called after by Bruce Grayson who's a I think psychiatrist or neur neuroscientist from the University of Virginia who just has a good overview I would say from a perspective of a practicing physician of why people take these strange stories seriously and why it might unsettle a materialist worldview and the third book.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um but a book by called Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel who's a famous philosopher not religious but arguing for the fundamental limits and problems with a materialist framework on the world and it is a very short book which is why I don't hesitate to recommend it.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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