We Didn’t Ask for This Internet.

since reading her book a few years ago, i think about Priya Parker’s work nearly once a week. an instruction manual that goes far beyond antidotes for your social life—it’s about our political and spiritual lives too. this episode with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social made my heart and brain light up.

Really great chat about the importance of “other” in our lives. We need to hang out with friends, others, share space more - for our overall health. That’s what bump n grind is about.

1/6 I’ve listened to a lot of Ezra Klein, but his recent conversation with Priya Parker might be one of his very best. It’s about something we almost never treat as political, even though it’s the core of politics: how we gather, host and live together. The very nucleus of politics.

This episode is such a relief from the relentless news cycle but also incredibly timely because it reaffirms the power of real-world human interactions and teaches us how to train that muscle

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Antidote to ‘Late-Stage Individualism’ With Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering". open.spotify.com/episode/49Cq... youtu.be/714IB4avhWg?...

Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

"The plumbing has become political". Excellent @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast episode with Henry Farell on Mark Carney's Davos speech, the end of the old world order and how the US are weaponising the infrastructure and dependence they created. youtu.be/4a5Jzn8YAQY?...

This week's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Week the World Admitted the Truth About America Canadian PM Mark Carney's speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar @himself.bsky.social explains why. youtu.be/4a5Jzn8YAQY?...

This is an excellent @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast with @himself.bsky.social. Chock full of political science theory providing a very useful framework to understand contemporary events www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/o...

Appreciated this interview with Caitlin Dickerson, and her shout out at the end to Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

This week's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Week the World Admitted the Truth About America Canadian PM Mark Carney's speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar @himself.bsky.social explains why. youtu.be/4a5Jzn8YAQY?...

Here’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.

"It was a bracing speech, but more than that, it was a brave act. It was the kind of act that Trumpism suggests does not exist, the kind of act that rebuts Trumpism by simply existing."

“The world is built on relationships, not leverage, and relationships are built on reciprocity and respect. It is not Trump’s genius to recognize America’s unused strength; it is his blindness to see that our strength was a function of our restraint.” Must read from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Staggering Scale of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, an immigration reporter, explains the different pieces of Trump’s deportation machine. open.spotify.com/episode/0oRq... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

Really enjoyed this. Will share will my Mormon friends who I know struggle w/Trumpism but see the left as antithetical to religion. I think Talarico threads an interesting needle. Texas will be an interesting test case, if he gets thru the primary Here’s a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

President Trump flipping off an autoworker is just the latest insult after a long line of broken promises to American workers and manufacturing communities.

“What is to you the ‘rage economy’?” @jamestalarico.bsky.social: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks....They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection. And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”

This was SO good. If you have a moment, please listen.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left? With State Representative James Talarico of Texas - discussing his faith, his politics and his Senate race. open.spotify.com/episode/1BBs... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

Fascinating episode - particularly on how the Trump government sees politics as spectacle, the need for domestic enemies and on how much faster the US has become authoritarian than Russia

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’ @mashagessen.bsky.social examines how the President governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force are meant to send. open.spotify.com/episode/78mi... youtu.be/U6DbiSMi6ik?...

Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do. What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Trump Wants in Venezuela @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social explains the various interests and factions at play in the Trump Administration’s strike against Venezuela. open.spotify.com/episode/766P...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. With Stephen Batchelor, the author of multiple books on Buddhism and meditation. open.spotify.com/episode/3wA8... youtu.be/5a7seXD2hEs?...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

"The force of the cultural correction gave MAGA a momentum that the election results never justified. That created the conditions for overreach." - Ezra Klein

The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Elie is awesome and the Givewell story is a huge part of why we built Good Ventures to do leveraged philanthropy at scale.

This @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social episode is great! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving. open.spotify.com/episode/1Ff6... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

"I can’t be someone I’m not. I’m not good at being someone I’m not. I’m not comfortable faking it. There are so many things in politics I’m not good at. The one good thing, though, is I think politics is radically changing. I think it’s rewarding a little bit more authenticity."

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Frontrunner open.spotify.com/episode/4OpV... youtu.be/PqBsRNUXWfs?...

"Competition seems, to me, to have made these apps better at fulfilling their corporate purpose and worse for human flourishing." (The flip side of this is much of the pre-video function of social media is now fulfilled by a richer Group Text & Photo Sharing experience).

Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

This conversion between Ezra and Fareed is exceptional. Gets to the heart of this moment we are in, why democrats and the center left failed, and how to move ahead. Notably - Fareed echoes what @radiofreetom.bsky.social says. Bored affluence leads to fascism much more than economic struggles.

‘The housing market keeps getting worse. Home prices have risen more than 50% since the pandemic. About a third of Americans households now spend more than 30% of their income on housing. In 2014, the median age of a first-time home buyer was 31. In 2025, it was 40 — the highest on record.’

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart Via @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

With Fareed Zakaria, host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN and the author of the book “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present.” Discussing the “revolution” we may be living through, the forces driving it, and how the Democratic Party can adapt. youtu.be/bc0oOW___qs?...

I went for a walk along the Tiber listening to Patti and Ezra. What a bonding episode. I share so many of her childhood experiences, influences and books. I loved her childhood imaginary world: mine lives vividly with me still. It’s part of me. Thanks for this interview Ezra.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever Life lessons from the “Godmother of Punk.” open.spotify.com/episode/7FOm... youtu.be/MY2SpuLync4?...

here’s a gift link for this must-read @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Is this the future of MAGA? With political writer John Ganz, who’s studied the roots of antisemitism on the right and has followed the evolution of MAGA closely. youtu.be/6jyDHToxC-4?...

I'm very conflicted about this vote, but I think this is a very reasonable, likely accurate interpretation

Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. With Aaron Retica, on whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and how liberalism can win right now. open.spotify.com/episode/1vMb... youtu.be/lAjsReyL8pQ?...