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On today’s show, we discuss the Conservative Book Club’s top books of 2018 with Chris Malagisi, host of the Conservative Book Club Podcast. We’ll hear his recommendations for last-minute Christmas gifts for your friends and family (see the full list below). We also take a look at “Top 5 Dumbest Liberal Books” of the year.
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• At a time when progressives are clamoring to enact Medicare for All, Heritage Foundation spokeswoman Genevieve Wood offers a solution that will serve patients and consumers—without turning over more power to government.
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Here are the Conservative Book Club’s top 10 books of 2018:
1) “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
2) “12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to the Chaos” by Jordan Peterson
3) “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition” by Roger Scruton
4) “Why Liberalism Failed” by Patrick Deneen
5) “Liars, Leakers, and Liberals” by Judge Jeanine Pirro
6) “The Russia Hoax” by Gregg Jarrett
7) “The Rational Bible: Exodus” by Dennis Prager
8) “Ship of Fools” by Tucker Carlson
9) “Death of a Nation” by Dinesh D’Souza
10) “Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President” by Charlotte and Karen Pence
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You excluded probably the best overall conservative book of the year and that is Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West. You also excluded Reihan Salam’s Melting Pot or Civil War. That alone makes this list unreliable. You included Jeanine Piro, Tucker Carlson, and Dinesh D’Souza, and Gregg Jarrett. That makes this list less than worthless.
These are the “top” books, i.e., the ones that sold the most and made the biggest splash. Not the same as the list of “best” books (especially considering that top liberal book is the worst book on that list). Lists don’t have to follow your or my lead to be worth something.
“The Conservative Book Club Editorial Review Board selected the books for this year based on a combination of overall impact, sales, influence, what CBC members enjoyed reading the most this year!” You might as well complain the People’s Choice Awards left out the year’s arthouse favorites.
After the greatness of Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, I confess I was underwhelmed by the extracts from Suicide I encountered in various conservative publications, both paper and online. His observations, this time, struck me as trite and obvious.
My own pick for Honorable Mention would be Heather MacDonald’s The Diversity Delusion.