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Books

  • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
  • Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
  • The Pragmatist's Guide to Crafting Religion by Malcolm Collins
  • The Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Psychoanalysis and Religion by Erich Fromm
  • Rupture and Reconstruction by Haym Soloveitchik
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
  • God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky
  • A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
  • From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
  • Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • From Berlin to Jerusalem by Gershom Scholem
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Exploring Exodus by Nahum Sarna
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
  • Halakhic Man by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
  • Faith Shattered and Restored by R. Shagar

Podcasts

  • Conversations with Tyler
  • The Dwarkesh Podcast
  • Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris
  • Acquired
  • Minds Almost Meeting
  • 18Forty Podcast
  • TBPN
  • Founders
  • EconTalk
  • Invest Like the Best
  • Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Movies

  • Good Will Hunting
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Social Network
  • Waking Life
  • The Truman Show
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Oppenheimer