Amazon - Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
Amazon - The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Amazon - The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 80)
Amazon - Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Amazon - Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Must-Read American History)
Amazon - The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Book Review: “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns” - The Case for Comediansplaining - The Arts Fuse
Amazon - Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
Amazon - Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race
Book Review: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton - LSE Review of Books
Amazon - Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Amazon - Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
I could verify these from the public Substack pages. The YouTube channel page would not load through the browser tool, so this is not guaranteed to be every mention in every YouTube transcript, but it covers the accessible Substack posts and mirrored interview/video descriptions.
Books / Book-Length Works
| Book | Author | How Luke Thomas uses/mentions it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity | Tim Wu | First entry in “The Occasional Learner’s Book Club”; Luke says the book club focuses on books about “systems of power.” | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/tim-wu-age-extraction-big-tech-interview-antitrust-news |
| Separation of Church and Hate | John Fugelsang | Interview centered on Fugelsang’s new book about Christian nationalism and authoritarian politics. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/john-fugelsang-book-christian-nationalism-interview-news |
| Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump | Spencer Ackerman | Strongly relevant to Luke’s interview with Ackerman on how the War on Terror shaped ICE; the Substack page names Ackerman as a national-security author/journalist but does not state the title in the visible text. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/war-on-terror-ice-spencer-ackerman-interview |
| Patrick Wyman’s “new book” | Patrick Wyman | The Substack page says they discuss “Pat’s new book,” but the publicly visible text does not show the title. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/slavery-is-still-with-us-an-interview |
Journalists / Media Figures Mentioned or Featured
| Name | Role / beat | How mentioned | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karim Zidan | Sports journalist, MMA/UFC politics | Featured twice on UFC-Trump/White House event coverage; Luke calls him a long-time sports journalist and says he saw the UFC-Trump relationship early. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/karim-zidan-interview-ufc-trump-white-house-news |
| Spencer Ackerman | National security journalist and author | Featured in interview on War on Terror, ICE, surveillance, Guantanamo, Iraq/Afghanistan reporting. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/war-on-terror-ice-spencer-ackerman-interview |
| Audie Cornish | CNN journalist/host | Mentioned as inviting Luke onto CNN This Morning. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/luke-thomas-cnn-ufc-white-house-dana-white-trump-news |
| Patrick Wyman | Historian, podcaster, former sports journalist | Featured in interview on slavery, history, ordinary lives, and historical method; page notes he previously covered MMA/boxing. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/slavery-is-still-with-us-an-interview |
| Karen Attiah | Journalist/commentator | Mentioned in the thanks/tuning-in section on the Karim Zidan post; not necessarily a recommendation. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/ufc-white-house-politics-karim-zidan-interview-ufc-news |
| W. Kamau Bell | Comedian, documentary host, media figure | Featured in interview on comedy, podcasting, Saudi money, Joe Rogan, and right-wing media overlap. Not exactly a journalist, but a media/interview figure. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/riyadh-comedy-festival-w-kamau-bell-interview |
| John Fugelsang | Broadcaster, comedian, political commentator | Featured in interview on Christian nationalism and his book. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/john-fugelsang-book-christian-nationalism-interview-news |
A couple of related non-journalist authors/experts he clearly features: Tim Wu on antitrust/platform power and Lina Khan on monopoly/FTC/antitrust.
I found a few clearly identifiable book/journalist mentions from the public Substack pages. I could not verify “all” from the YouTube channel itself because the channel page/transcripts were not accessible through the browser results here, so this is the verified public-facing list from the Substack plus items tied to the same political interview content.
Books Mentioned / Featured
| Book | Author | Context | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity | Tim Wu | Listed as the first entry in Luke Thomas’s “Occasional Learner’s Book Club.” | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu |
| Separation of Church and Hate | John Fugelsang | Interview/book discussion on Christian nationalism, Jesus, and politics. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/separation-of-church-and-hate-john-fugelsang-interview-book-politics |
| Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump | Spencer Ackerman | Not clearly named in the visible Substack excerpt, but Ackerman’s interview topic is “The War on Terror Created ICE,” which closely tracks his major War on Terror thesis. Treat this as an inferred related book, not a directly verified title from the page. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/the-war-on-terror-created-ice-spencer-ackerman-interview |
| Unclear title: Patrick Wyman’s “new book” | Patrick Wyman | The Substack post says Luke and Wyman discussed “Pat’s new book,” slavery, Rome, Haiti, and U.S. history, but the visible page did not show the book title. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/history-slavery-roman-empire-haiti-us-patrick-wyman-interview |
Journalists / Media Figures Mentioned or Featured
| Person | Role / Area | Context | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karim Zidan | Sports/politics journalist, known for coverage of sportswashing, combat sports, authoritarianism, and geopolitics | Interviewed about UFC, Trump, Dana White, White House politics, and sportswashing. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/ufc-white-house-politics-karim-zidan-interview-ufc-news |
| Spencer Ackerman | National security journalist and author | Interviewed on ICE, immigration enforcement, and the War on Terror coming home. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/the-war-on-terror-created-ice-spencer-ackerman-interview |
| Audie Cornish | Journalist / CNN anchor | Appears as interview guest on masculinity, Trump, and the “manosphere.” | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/the-manosphere-cnn-audie-cornish-interview |
| Patrick Wyman | Historian, podcaster, former sports journalist | Interviewed on slavery, Rome, Haiti, and U.S. history. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/history-slavery-roman-empire-haiti-us-patrick-wyman-interview |
| Karen Attiah | Journalist / commentator | Mentioned in Substack thanks/supporter context, not clearly as a recommendation. | https://lthomas.substack.com/ |
| John Fugelsang | Political commentator, broadcaster, author | Interviewed about his book and Christian nationalism. | https://lthomas.substack.com/p/separation-of-church-and-hate-john-fugelsang-interview-book-politics |
Also Mentioned but Not Journalists
| Person | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Wu | Author, law professor, antitrust/tech policy thinker | Book club author for The Age of Extraction. |
| Lina Khan | Former FTC chair / antitrust scholar | Interviewed about monopolies, consumers, and politics. |
| W. Kamau Bell | Comedian, host, media figure | Interviewed about democracy, media, and politics. |
The cleanest verified book recommendation is Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction, because Luke’s Substack explicitly frames it as a book-club selection.