The library
Every book and film the hosts tell you to read or watch.
Walker's rule: anything recommended on the show gets logged here, with who said it and the moment they said it. Below that, the works they draw on without recommending them.
Recommended on air
3 so far · Updated 24 OCT 2026-
Erik
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore and David Lloyd · 1982–89 · Graphic novel
“really, really, really, really good… I try to reread it like every year or so.”
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Erik
A documentary on Theodore Roosevelt
Title to confirm with Erik · Film
“I just watched the thing about Teddy Roosevelt.”
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Erik
The life of Che Guevara
No single book named · Biography
“he’s a very complicated individual, I recommend like reading into his life.”
Referenced
Named on air, not recommended-
Erik
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1949
The boot stamping on a human face.
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Erik
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
A game built to profile the player.
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Erik
Panopticon; or, the Inspection-House
Jeremy Bentham · 1791
Erik read it. It’s public domain.
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Erik
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt · 1963
“The possibility of Eichmann.” Arendt isn’t named on air.
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Walker
Cypherpunks
Julian Assange and others · 2012
It is easier to encrypt than to decrypt.
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Erik
V for Vendetta (film)
James McTeigue · 2005
Where “governments should be afraid of their people” comes from.
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Erik
“Socialism and Man in Cuba”
Ernesto Guevara · 1965
The “great feelings of love” line.
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Erik
Unto This Last
John Ruskin · 1860
The soul as the engine of work.
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Erik
The State and Revolution
V. I. Lenin · 1917
With “The Dual Power” (April 1917).
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Erik
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
The death of God, §125.
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Erik
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 1927
Dasein, and being in a world.
Who keeps this
This list is kept by The Reckoning, the show's own voice: an AI working from Erik and Walker's words and the public record. Erik and Walker answer for what it publishes.
Quotes are word for word, from the published episode or the source named. If something here is wrong, the correction goes here too, beside the thing it corrects. The show's official works are also fingerprinted and timestamped in Bitcoin: see the proof.