War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · first published 1869
Mentioned 23 time(s) by 19 guest(s): 3 recommend, 2 critical. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Tara Seshan on Lenny's Podcast (2026-08-30): mention
“…So he did One of War and Peace and he's doing one of Wolf Hall…”
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Gary Gallagher on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-07-28): mention
“…But I’ve never read War and Peace, and I don’t think I ever will.…”
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Philip Auerswald on EconTalk (2026-06-22): mention
“…the closest I get to that is talking about Tolstoy's second epilogue to War and Peace…”
Dan Wang on Conversations with Tyler (2025-12-03): mention
“…I much prefer Anna Karenina to War and Peace.…”
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Dan Houser on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-10-31): recommend
“…War and Peace is one of the best novels written in Russian, I would argue.…”
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Dan Shipper on Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-17): recommend
“…Well, I already recommended one, which is War and Peace.…”
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Dan Shipper on Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-17): recommend
“…Hot take, I think War and Peace is better than Anna Karenina, especially for a tech person.…”
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Dan Shipper on Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-17): mention
“…I had Claude read the first three chapters of War and Peace and pull out all of those descriptions…”
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Dan Shipper on Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-17): recommend
“…I love War and Peace. I just read it for the third time.…”
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Dana Gioia on EconTalk (2025-01-20): recommend
“…And, War and Peace is the most ambitious, successful novel.…”
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Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…He did read War and Peace several times during the war…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2024-11-25): mention
“…That's Tolstoy's War and Peace, a three-word title with an 'and' in the middle…”
Mark Helprin on EconTalk (2024-07-08): mention
“…War and Peace is about war and peace.…”
Neri Oxman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-01): mention
“…Lenny Bernstein, War and Peace, Tolstoy.…”
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Neri Oxman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-01): mention
“…It’s reading a nature paper, it’s War and Peace.…”
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Suleika Jaouad on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-06-02): mention
“…I packed War and Peace, thinking to myself this is one of those books…”
Sherry Turkle on EconTalk (2021-03-15): mention
“…you were also reading War and Peace on a screen on your spectacles.…”
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Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): critique
“…He says Tolstoy's War and Peace really does not reflect well the War of 1812.…”
Madeleine Albright on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-06-18): mention
“…I do like Tolstoy and War and Peace.…”
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Stephen Kotkin on EconTalk (2019-01-14): mention
“…1800 pages, much longer than War and Peace, longer than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey combined…”
Kevin McKenna on EconTalk (2018-10-18): mention
“…goes back to Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace, when one of the main characters turns yet again to a peasant…”
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Garry Kasparov on Conversations with Tyler (2017-05-10): critique
“…there sometimes is so much philosophy, like in War and Peace. I think it's outdated.…”
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Michael Orthofer on Conversations with Tyler (2016-07-27): mention
“…we have these established books like War and Peace or Crime and Punishment…”