Worker & Parasite is a fortnightly podcast in which Stably and I have a conversation about a book we have recently read. All episodes are listed below. You can subscribe via RSS, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

1. Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough
2. The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer
3. Total Defense by Andrew Preston
4. The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
5. Why Nothing Works by Marc J. Dunkelman
6. The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
7. The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
8. The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
9. Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Part 2)
10. Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Part 1)
11. A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
12. Kaiser! by Rob Smyth
13. Fat Leonard by Craig Whitlock
14. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
15. The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin
16. The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
17. The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini
18. What Went Wrong with Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma
19. The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
20. Losing the Long Game by Philip H. Gordon
21. The World That Wasn't by Benn Steil
22. The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
23. The United States of Paranoia by Jesse Walker
24. The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini
25. Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars
26. The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
27. Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu
28. The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
29. Technopoly by Neil Postman
30. How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
31. A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
32. Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir
33. The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
34. In Defense of Civilization by Michael RJ Bonner
35. Offside by Andrei Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman
36. The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania
37. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
38. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
39. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
40. The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel
41. Up From Coservatism by Michael Lind
42. End Times by Peter Turchin
43. The White Album & Miami by Joan Didion
44. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
45. After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
46. Outlive by Peter Attia
47. The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus
48. The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade
49. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
50. The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Mueller
51. By the People by Charles Murray
52. Obedience is Freedom by Jacob Phillips
53. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
54. Western Self-Contempt by Benedict Beckeld
55. The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter
56. Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
57. Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner
58. Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
59. Red Card by Ken Bensinger
60. Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
61. The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
62. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
63. The United States of Anonymous by Jeff Kosseff
64. The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
65. The Machiavellians by James Burnham
66. Bad Religion by Ross Douthat
67. War and the Liberal Conscience
68. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
69. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
70. This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev
71. Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
72. Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
73. Wanting by Luke Burgis
74. The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
75. The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa
76. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
77. The Aristocracy of Talent by Adrian Wooldridge
78. Waking Up by Sam Harris
79. The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher.
80. On Decline by Andrew Potter
81. After Nationalism by Samuel Goldman
82. Isolationism by Charles A. Kupchan
83. Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja
84. Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran
85. The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
86. Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin
87. Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind by Hrishikesh Joshi
88. The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman
89. The Final Pagan Generation by Edward J. Watts
90. On Desire by William B. Irvine
91. Nation of Rebels by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
92. Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams
93. The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
94. True Names by Vernor Vinge
95. Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann
96. Postjournalism by Andrey Mir
97. Enlightenment's Wake by John Gray
98. History Has Begun by Bruno Maçães
99. The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan

Last updated November 8, 2025