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The Ezra Klein Show
The Ezra Klein Show has 490 indexed episodes on PodcastMentions with 2554 transcript-derived book mentions across 2033 distinct books.
Recurring topics include recommendations for books, book recommendations, Republican Party dynamics, and children's book recommendations. Books this show tends to mention include Why We're Polarized, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and The Sum of Us by Heather McGee.
Episodes490
Books2033
Mentions2554
Events7
Recurring Topics
Notable Guests
Guest data is sparse for this show right now.
Books This Show Tends to Mention
Why We're Polarized
15 mentions · 15 episodes
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman · 8 mentions · 8 episodes
The Sum of Us
Heather McGee · 7 mentions · 7 episodes
Abundance
6 mentions · 6 episodes
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver · 6 mentions · 6 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance · 6 mentions · 6 episodes
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What is The Ezra Klein Show about on PodcastMentions?
Recurring topics include recommendations for books, book recommendations, Republican Party dynamics, and children's book recommendations. Books this show tends to mention include Why We're Polarized, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and The Sum of Us by Heather McGee.
Which books are mentioned most on The Ezra Klein Show?
Why We're Polarized, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and The Sum of Us by Heather McGee are the most frequently cited books currently indexed for The Ezra Klein Show.
Which guests show up most often on The Ezra Klein Show?
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What topics recur on The Ezra Klein Show?
recommendations for books, book recommendations, Republican Party dynamics, and children's book recommendations are the strongest recurring transcript topics on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Mar 20, 2026
Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’
Mar 14, 2026
What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran
Mar 10, 2026
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War
Mar 6, 2026
Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic
Mar 3, 2026
The Great Lie of War
Feb 25, 2026
Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union
Feb 24, 2026
How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
Feb 20, 2026
Who Has the Power in Trump's White House?
Feb 13, 2026
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
Feb 10, 2026
George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
Feb 6, 2026
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet
Feb 3, 2026
Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
Jan 30, 2026
How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze
Jan 27, 2026
The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years
Jan 23, 2026
Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going
Jan 16, 2026
Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?
Jan 13, 2026
Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
Jan 10, 2026
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
Jan 6, 2026
What Trump Wants in Venezuela
Jan 2, 2026
This Question Can Change Your Life
Dec 23, 2025
‘This Is Something That Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’
Dec 19, 2025
The Opinions: Bernie Sanders and Ruben Gallego
Dec 16, 2025
The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money
Dec 12, 2025
Best Of: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones
Dec 10, 2025
The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom
Dec 5, 2025
What I Learned in 2025
Dec 2, 2025
Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger
Nov 25, 2025
Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
Nov 21, 2025
Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right
Nov 18, 2025
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Nov 14, 2025
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem
Nov 10, 2025
What Were Democrats Thinking?
Nov 7, 2025
The Blue Wave Cometh?
Nov 2, 2025
This Is How the Democratic Party Beats Trump
Oct 28, 2025
The Israeli Right’s Plan to Carve Up Gaza
Oct 24, 2025
Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?
Oct 21, 2025
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
Oct 17, 2025
Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold?
Oct 15, 2025
How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?
Oct 11, 2025
Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right
Oct 8, 2025
What the Shutdown Is Really About
Oct 3, 2025
A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
Sep 28, 2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
Sep 24, 2025
Trump Is Building the Blue Scare
Sep 19, 2025
Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink
Sep 16, 2025
We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other
Sep 7, 2025
If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It
Sep 2, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab
Aug 27, 2025
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
Aug 22, 2025
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
Aug 20, 2025
Your Questions (and Criticisms) of Our Recent Shows
Aug 16, 2025
Trump vs. the U.S. Economy
Aug 13, 2025
When Is It Genocide?
Aug 5, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story
Aug 1, 2025
Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
Jul 29, 2025
Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’
Jul 25, 2025
Is Decarbonization Dead?
Jul 23, 2025
Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
Jul 17, 2025
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
Jul 11, 2025
Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?
Jul 8, 2025
How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us
Jul 2, 2025
The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate
Jun 28, 2025
Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics
Jun 25, 2025
A New Middle East?
Jun 20, 2025
Is This America’s Golden Age? A Debate.
Jun 17, 2025
Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights
Jun 11, 2025
Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza
Jun 6, 2025
Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Jun 3, 2025
The Emergent Trump Doctrine
May 30, 2025
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
May 28, 2025
The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP
May 23, 2025
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
May 21, 2025
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
May 16, 2025
Is Trump Losing? A Debate
May 13, 2025
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
May 9, 2025
Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism
May 6, 2025
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
May 2, 2025
Trump vs. the Dollar
Apr 29, 2025
Abundance and the Left
Apr 25, 2025
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
Apr 23, 2025
The Very American Roots of Trumpism
Apr 17, 2025
The Emergency Is Here
Apr 15, 2025
Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
Apr 11, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
Apr 5, 2025
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’
Apr 1, 2025
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
Mar 28, 2025
The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics
Mar 25, 2025
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?
Mar 21, 2025
The Origins of Abundance
Mar 18, 2025
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
Mar 14, 2025
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Mar 12, 2025
Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work
Mar 9, 2025
There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
Mar 5, 2025
This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty Test
Mar 4, 2025
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
Mar 1, 2025
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
Feb 25, 2025
A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics
Feb 18, 2025
A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
Feb 16, 2025
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours
Feb 11, 2025
What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?
Feb 7, 2025
What Elon Musk Wants
Feb 5, 2025
The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
Feb 2, 2025
Don't Believe Him
Jan 28, 2025
MAGA’s Big Tech Divide
Jan 25, 2025
Let’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
Jan 22, 2025
So That's What 'Make America Great Again' Means
Jan 17, 2025
Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
Jan 14, 2025
Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?
Jan 10, 2025
Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
Jan 7, 2025
Burned Out? Start Here.
Dec 27, 2024
Best Of: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Dec 24, 2024
What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024
Dec 20, 2024
Yes, Biden’s Green Future Can Still Happen Under Trump
Dec 17, 2024
‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power
Dec 13, 2024
Best Of: How TV, Twitter and TikTok Remade Our Politics
Dec 10, 2024
You Had a Lot of Questions About the Election
Dec 6, 2024
Best Of: Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
Dec 3, 2024
It's the Corruption, Stupid
Nov 26, 2024
Would Bernie Have Won?
Nov 22, 2024
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
Nov 19, 2024
Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails
Nov 13, 2024
The End of the Obama Coalition
Nov 9, 2024
The Book That Predicted the 2024 Election
Nov 7, 2024
Where Does This Leave Democrats?
Nov 4, 2024
America Has Changed. So Has Jon Stewart.
Nov 1, 2024
Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order?
Oct 29, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy Has a Different Vision for Trumpism From JD Vance
Oct 25, 2024
Maggie Haberman on How Trump Has Changed
Oct 22, 2024
What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?
Oct 18, 2024
The Hidden Politics of Disorder
Oct 15, 2024
Book Review: Robert Caro on 50 Years of ‘The Power Broker’
Oct 11, 2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel: ‘I Felt Lied To.’
Oct 8, 2024
How Biden’s Middle East Policy Fell Apart
Oct 4, 2024
The Economy Is at a Hinge Moment
Oct 2, 2024
The V.P. Debate Came Down to One Moment
Oct 1, 2024
About the Coming Paywall
Sep 27, 2024
MAGA Is Not as United as You Think
Sep 24, 2024
What Pete Buttigieg Learned Playing JD Vance
Sep 20, 2024
Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran — and Itself
Sep 17, 2024
Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones
Sep 13, 2024
The Real ‘Border Czar’ Defends the Biden-Harris Record
Sep 11, 2024
Harris Had a Theory of Trump, and It Was Right
Sep 6, 2024
The Opinions: A Pro-Life Case for Harris and a Writing Contest With ChatGPT
Sep 3, 2024
On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
Aug 30, 2024
Best Of: Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This.
Aug 27, 2024
Best Of: The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright
Aug 23, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Win
Aug 22, 2024
Can the Democratic Party Reclaim Freedom?
Aug 21, 2024
The Obamas Strike Back
Aug 20, 2024
Democrats Don’t Think They Have This Election Won
Aug 16, 2024
Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 2024 Election
Aug 13, 2024
Nate Silver on Kamala Harris’s Chances and the Mistakes of the ‘Indigo Blob’
Aug 9, 2024
Nancy Pelosi: ‘It Didn’t Sound Like Joe Biden to Me’
Aug 6, 2024
Kamala Harris Isn’t Playing It Safe
Aug 6, 2024
‘We Have Created the Scarcity on Purpose’
Aug 2, 2024
Is Tim Walz the Midwestern Dad Democrats Need?
Jul 30, 2024
What Democrats Can Learn From Gretchen Whitmer
Jul 26, 2024
This Is How Democrats Win in Wisconsin
Jul 23, 2024
Are Democrats Right to Unite Around Kamala Harris?
Jul 20, 2024
I Watched the Republican Convention. The Democrats Can Still Win.
Jul 18, 2024
The Trump Campaign’s Theory of Victory
Jul 17, 2024
The Economic Theory Behind J.D. Vance’s Populism
Jul 9, 2024
The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-Up
Jul 5, 2024
Is Kamala Harris Underrated?
Jul 2, 2024
How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Jun 30, 2024
What Is the Democratic Party For?
Jun 28, 2024
After That Debate, the Risk of Biden Is Clear
Jun 21, 2024
Trump’s Bold Vision for America: Higher Prices!
Jun 18, 2024
The Biggest Political Divide Is Not Left vs. Right
Jun 14, 2024
The View From the Israeli Right
Jun 7, 2024
The Economic Theory That Explains Why Americans Are So Mad
Jun 4, 2024
The Republican Party’s Decay Began Long Before Trump
May 31, 2024
Your Mind Is Being Fracked
May 24, 2024
‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence.
May 21, 2024
A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
May 17, 2024
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N.
May 10, 2024
This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws
May 7, 2024
Watching the Protests From Israel
Apr 30, 2024
Is Green Growth Possible?
Apr 26, 2024
Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Apr 23, 2024
This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
Apr 16, 2024
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to Build
Apr 12, 2024
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Apr 5, 2024
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
Apr 2, 2024
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
Mar 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
Mar 26, 2024
Matter of Opinion: Paul Krugman on Inflation, ‘Bad Vibes’ and 2024
Mar 22, 2024
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
Mar 19, 2024
Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?
Mar 12, 2024
What a Second Biden Term Would Look Like
Mar 8, 2024
How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing
Mar 5, 2024
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of Israel
Mar 1, 2024
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America’s Policy Hasn’t.
Feb 23, 2024
Your Questions on Open Conventions, a Gaza Schism and Biden’s Chances
Feb 21, 2024
Here’s How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Feb 16, 2024
Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Feb 13, 2024
Best Of: Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
Feb 9, 2024
Building the Palestinian State With Salam Fayyad
Feb 6, 2024
What Relationships Would You Want, if You Believed They Were Possible?
Feb 1, 2024
‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’
Jan 25, 2024
‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’
Jan 19, 2024
‘I Have No Idea How This Ends. I’ve Never Seen It So Broken.’
Jan 16, 2024
A Republican Pollster on Trump’s Undimmed Appeal
Jan 12, 2024
Should Trump Be Barred From the Ballot?
Jan 9, 2024
How to Discover Your Own Taste
Jan 5, 2024
Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.
Dec 26, 2023
Best Of: The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
Dec 22, 2023
Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
Dec 19, 2023
How the Israel-Gaza Conversations Have Shaped My Thinking
Dec 12, 2023
India Is Transforming. But Into What?
Dec 8, 2023
A Different Path Israel Could Have Taken — and Maybe Still Can
Dec 5, 2023
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’
Dec 1, 2023
A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.
Nov 28, 2023
Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent.
Nov 21, 2023
The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts
Nov 17, 2023
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now
Nov 14, 2023
Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?
Nov 10, 2023
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand
Nov 7, 2023
An Intense, Searching Conversation With Amjad Iraqi
Nov 3, 2023
She Polled Gazans on Oct. 6. Here’s What She Found.
Oct 31, 2023
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?
Oct 27, 2023
The Conflicted Legacy of Mitt Romney
Oct 24, 2023
The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once
Oct 18, 2023
Israel Is Giving Hamas What It Wants
Oct 10, 2023
We Need Better Narratives About Gender
Oct 3, 2023
Meet the ‘Angry, Aggrieved’ New Right
Sep 26, 2023
Two Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s Indictments
Sep 19, 2023
Boundaries, Burnout and the 'Goopification' of Self-Care
Sep 12, 2023
America’s Top Librarian on the Rise of Book Bans
Sep 5, 2023
What Have We Learned From a Summer of Climate Reckoning?
Aug 29, 2023
It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’
Aug 22, 2023
When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Collide
Aug 15, 2023
This Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their Distrust
Aug 8, 2023
A Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016
Aug 1, 2023
How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment
Jul 25, 2023
Biden, Psychedelics, Twitter, My New Book — and So Much More
Jul 21, 2023
Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
Jul 18, 2023
What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades
Jul 14, 2023
What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
Jul 11, 2023
A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.
Jul 7, 2023
This Taught Me a Lot About How Decarbonization Is Really Going
Jul 4, 2023
Best Of: A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
Jun 30, 2023
What’s Really Going On in Russia?
Jun 27, 2023
How ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Better Humans
Jun 23, 2023
Why This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000
Jun 20, 2023
What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Stories?
Jun 16, 2023
Why Do So Few Democrats Want Biden to Run in 2024?
Jun 13, 2023
What We Learned Reading Ron DeSantis's Books
Jun 9, 2023
What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal
Jun 6, 2023
The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read
Jun 4, 2023
Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind
Jun 2, 2023
Fareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much More
May 30, 2023
Matter of Opinion: A Look at the 2024 G.O.P. Primary Field
May 26, 2023
If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’
May 23, 2023
The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2
May 19, 2023
The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1
May 16, 2023
A Libertarian and I Debate the Debt Ceiling
May 12, 2023
Best Of: A Weird, Wonderful Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
May 9, 2023
Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’
May 5, 2023
Best Of: How the Fed Is ‘Shaking the Entire System’
May 2, 2023
The Culture Creating A.I. Is Weird. Here’s Why That Matters.
Apr 28, 2023
Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in California
Apr 25, 2023
Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party
Apr 21, 2023
Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
Apr 18, 2023
The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
Apr 14, 2023
This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously
Apr 11, 2023
What Biden’s Top A.I. Thinker Concluded We Should Do
Apr 7, 2023
Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
Apr 4, 2023
The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
Mar 31, 2023
Best Of: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
Mar 28, 2023
Trump’s Legal Jeopardy and America’s Political Crossroads
Mar 24, 2023
A Radical Way of Thinking About Money
Mar 21, 2023
Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.
Mar 19, 2023
My View on A.I.
Mar 16, 2023
Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes Next
Mar 14, 2023
How China Went From Economic Superstar to Faltering Giant
Mar 10, 2023
The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright
Mar 7, 2023
If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants
Mar 3, 2023
The Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World
Feb 28, 2023
Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
Feb 24, 2023
Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence
Feb 21, 2023
This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain
Feb 17, 2023
The Inflation Story Has Changed Dramatically. Paul Krugman Breaks It Down.
Feb 14, 2023
How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
Feb 10, 2023
The Tao of Rick Rubin
Feb 7, 2023
How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling Government
Feb 3, 2023
Best Of: Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States
Jan 31, 2023
First Person: How the Left Is Cannibalizing Its Own Power
Jan 27, 2023
Is This How a Cold War With China Begins?
Jan 24, 2023
There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed
Jan 20, 2023
How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party
Jan 16, 2023
A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
Jan 13, 2023
A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises
Jan 10, 2023
Dan Savage on Polyamory, Chosen Family and Better Sex
Jan 6, 2023
A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution
Jan 3, 2023
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Dec 30, 2022
Best Of: How America's Poet Laureate Sees Our World
Dec 27, 2022
Best Of: Want to Save Democracy? Run For Office.
Dec 23, 2022
Best Of: Who Wins — and Who Loses — in the A.I. Revolution?
Dec 20, 2022
Best Of: Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
Dec 16, 2022
What I'm Thinking About at the End of 2022
Dec 13, 2022
Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think
Dec 9, 2022
Three Signals We’ve Entered a New Economic Era
Dec 6, 2022
There’s Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets Made
Dec 2, 2022
A Conservative’s Take on the Chaotic State of the Republican Party
Nov 29, 2022
The Hidden Costs of Cheap Meat
Nov 22, 2022
This Conversation About the 'Reading Mind' Is a Gift
Nov 15, 2022
Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the Planet
Nov 10, 2022
I Don’t Quite Buy the DeSantis Narrative, and Other Midterm Thoughts
Nov 8, 2022
George Saunders on the ‘Braindead Megaphone’ That Makes Our Politics So Awful
Nov 4, 2022
Inflation Does More Than Raise Prices. It Destroys Governments.
Nov 1, 2022
A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
Oct 28, 2022
These Political Scientists Surveyed 500,000 Voters. Here Are Their Unnerving Conclusions.
Oct 25, 2022
A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Trump Enabler
Oct 21, 2022
There’s Been a ‘Regime Change’ in How Democrats Think About Elections
Oct 18, 2022
A Legendary World-Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
Oct 14, 2022
What Rachel Maddow Has Been Thinking About Offscreen
Oct 11, 2022
Hard Fork: Elon’s Hidden Motives + A Meetup in the Metaverse
Oct 7, 2022
How the Fed Is ‘Shaking the Entire System’
Oct 4, 2022
When You Can’t Trust the Stories Your Mind Is Telling
Sep 30, 2022
Ethereum’s Founder on What Crypto Can — and Can’t — Do
Sep 27, 2022
We Know So Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
Sep 23, 2022
Why Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine
Sep 20, 2022
The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard
Sep 16, 2022
Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build It
Sep 13, 2022
We Build Civilizations on Status. But We Barely Understand It.
Sep 10, 2022
Opinion Roundtable: Behind America’s Public School Battles
Sep 6, 2022
The Subtle Art of Appreciating ‘Difficult Beauty’
Sep 2, 2022
Best Of: This Conversation With Richard Powers Is a Gift
Aug 30, 2022
A Grammy-Nominated Singer Performs and Explores Music's Power
Aug 26, 2022
Best Of: Margaret Atwood on the Bible and the Future
Aug 23, 2022
Why the Evangelical Movement Is in ‘Disarray’ After Dobbs
Aug 19, 2022
Best of: A Life-Changing Philosophy of Games
Aug 16, 2022
The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work.
Aug 12, 2022
How Do We Face Loss With Dignity?
Aug 9, 2022
Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life
Aug 5, 2022
Gender Is Complicated for All of Us. Let’s Talk About It.
Aug 2, 2022
The Argument: Who Can Write About What?
Jul 29, 2022
Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions
Jul 26, 2022
The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming
Jul 22, 2022
A Top Mental Health Expert on Where America Went Wrong
Jul 19, 2022
Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States
Jul 15, 2022
A Weird, Wonderful Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson
Jul 12, 2022
First Person: To Fight for Ukraine’s Freedom, He Went Back Into the Closet
Jul 8, 2022
Michelle Goldberg Grapples With Feminism After Roe
Jul 5, 2022
Liberals Need a Clearer Vision of the Constitution. Here’s What It Could Look Like.
Jul 1, 2022
A Guide to the Supreme Court's Rightward Shift
Jun 28, 2022
The Supreme Court Went Off the Rails Long Before Dobbs
Jun 26, 2022
The Dobbs Decision Isn’t Just About Abortion. It’s About Power.
Jun 24, 2022
The Case for Prosecuting Trump
Jun 21, 2022
Two Years Later, We Still Don’t Understand Long Covid. Why?
Jun 17, 2022
The End of 'The Everything Bubble'
Jun 14, 2022
Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions Answered
Jun 10, 2022
Socialism Is Supposed to Be a Working-Class Movement. Why Isn’t It?
Jun 7, 2022
Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’
Jun 3, 2022
A Conservative's View on Democrats' Biggest Weakness
May 31, 2022
Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right
May 27, 2022
Best Of: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
May 24, 2022
A Conversation With Ada Limón, in Six Poems
May 20, 2022
The Ethics of Abortion
May 17, 2022
Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism
May 13, 2022
What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want?
May 10, 2022
Sway: 'Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows' in Ukraine
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Mar 25, 2022
Margaret Atwood on Stories, Deception and the Bible
Mar 22, 2022
How Energy Markets Are Shaping Putin’s Invasion — and the World
Mar 18, 2022
A Realist Take on How the Russia-Ukraine War Could End
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Timothy Snyder on the Myths That Blinded the West to Putin’s Plans
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Feb 25, 2022
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Feb 22, 2022
Best Of: Stop. Breathe. We Can’t Keep Working Like This.
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Dec 21, 2021
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Dec 7, 2021
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Dec 3, 2021
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Nov 30, 2021
Best Of: How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
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Nov 16, 2021
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Nov 12, 2021
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Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 5, 2021
Best Of: How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves
Nov 2, 2021
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Oct 29, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
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Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 5, 2021
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Sep 28, 2021
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Sep 24, 2021
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Sep 17, 2021
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Sep 14, 2021
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Sep 10, 2021
Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
Sep 7, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021
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Aug 31, 2021
Ask Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties, Reading and More
Aug 27, 2021
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Aug 24, 2021
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Aug 20, 2021
The Argument: Should We Say "Hi" to Aliens?
Aug 17, 2021
Best of: George Saunders on Kindness in a Cruel World
Aug 13, 2021
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Aug 10, 2021
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Aug 6, 2021
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Aug 3, 2021
41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
Jul 30, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
Jul 27, 2021
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Jul 23, 2021
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Jul 20, 2021
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Jul 16, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives—and Liberals—Get Wrong About Antiracism
Jul 13, 2021
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Jul 9, 2021
Critical Race Theory, Comic Books and the Power of Public Schools
Jul 6, 2021
Best of: What ‘Drained-Pool’ Politics Costs America
Jul 2, 2021
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Jun 29, 2021
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Jun 25, 2021
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Jun 22, 2021
Sarah Schulman’s Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change
Jun 18, 2021
Welcome to the ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ Economy
Jun 15, 2021
The Freeing of the American Mind
Jun 11, 2021
Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power
Jun 8, 2021
Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
Jun 4, 2021
Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
Jun 1, 2021
Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’
May 28, 2021
Sway: How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin
May 25, 2021
The Argument: Should We Cancel Student Loan Debt?
May 21, 2021
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?
May 18, 2021
The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent
May 14, 2021
Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
May 11, 2021
Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question
May 7, 2021
Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About Inequality
May 4, 2021
How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things
Apr 30, 2021
How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters
Apr 27, 2021
Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture
Apr 23, 2021
Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life
Apr 20, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 13, 2021
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Apr 9, 2021
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Apr 6, 2021
Did the Boomers Ruin America? A Debate.
Apr 2, 2021
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Mar 30, 2021
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Mar 26, 2021
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Mar 23, 2021
An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders
Mar 19, 2021
Andrew Cuomo and the Performance of Power
Mar 16, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021
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Mar 5, 2021
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Mar 2, 2021
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Feb 26, 2021
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Feb 23, 2021
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Feb 19, 2021
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Feb 16, 2021
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Feb 12, 2021
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Feb 9, 2021
Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?
Feb 5, 2021
An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the G.O.P.
Feb 2, 2021
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Jan 29, 2021
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