Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Americans Need to Understand About China Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister of Australia, on how the Chinese president thinks. open.spotify.com/episode/4Lg5... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

i’m late to it but absolutely loved this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social conversation w/ gary shteyngart on searching for meaning in a dystopian and uncertain world. what is the point of life if we can’t figure out how to maximize our own happiness? open.spotify.com/episode/0XCM...

That's a pretty good summary of what is frankly a ridiculous story going around, including here on bsky. Peter Thiel is frankly ideologically repugnant, but co-hosting a mini-conference isn't a conspiracy or one of his crimes, and it's fine that e.g. Elizabeth Blackburn attended

On Dialog.

I am nine years sober and smoke free. But quitting meat has bested me at every turn. However the “cult of efficiency” gives me greater impetus to keep trying.

What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Helen Lewis is really excellent on this. One of the things the rise of MAGA has led me to think more carefully about is absolutely the need for better models of masculinity, between the right's reactionary fabulations and the online-left's nihilism.

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right. open.spotify.com/episode/1yu0... youtu.be/YK1aj39y55k?...

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. How Trump Supercharges America’s Risks The political risk analyst @ianbremmer.com argues that the greatest driver of risk in the world right now is President Trump. open.spotify.com/episode/2o7Y... youtu.be/syl9OLNSm4k?...

We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Great episode on the power of cooperation and stories, liberalism, the risks and benefits of AI and more. I really like Harari's liberty-equality-fraternity test for political systems.

This article is so good. And so overdue.

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion The best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Nexus” discusses the core delusions deranging our politics. open.spotify.com/episode/6mYi... youtu.be/9NCxS__rtAo?...

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. One in eight American adults is taking GLP-1s. What does that mean for how we relate to our food, bodies and one another? With Julia Belluz, co-author of the book “Food Intelligence". open.spotify.com/episode/7o8i... youtu.be/T_JKQt4mp5I?...

I told @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social that Israel has become even more dependent on US, not less - and this isn't likely to change given expansionist agenda beyond 67 borders and strategy of having military upper hand in region of half a billion by a state of 10 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer. open.spotify.com/episode/3Jjy... youtu.be/mX5U5DNUfBc?...

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. open.spotify.com/episode/5GcZ... youtu.be/UPCvEHtBSp0?...

Excellent episode with two of my favourite public intellectuals on why the civilisation being destroyed is actually the US.

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War open.spotify.com/episode/15An... youtu.be/b5hU0VHM1-M?...

Fascinating @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast episode with @michaelpollan.bsky.social on the current state of research into and theories about consciousness. youtu.be/hYrgLn7pWp8?...

Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Is Iran Winning? With Suzanne Maloney, director of the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy program. open.spotify.com/episode/3lFO... youtu.be/nUhi5b8aj7U?...

“I have been exploring the deepening relationship so many people have with their A.I.s. The protean nature of these systems mean they are never just one thing, but among the many things they are is the one McLuhan warned of: an extension of our self in a material that is not our self.” #AIEthics

I Saw Something New in San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Happens if 20 Percent of the World’s Oil Disappears? With energy policy expert Jason Bordoff. open.spotify.com/episode/1TRZ... youtu.be/EEhIfksDzsY?...

We’re all living in the Mirror World now. Great interview and a reminder of how prescient Doppelgänger was.

Explaining the constitution, to a former Trump national security adviser.

🚨 👉 The showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic is a window into how unprepared we are for the questions we are already facing. In July, Anthropic signed a deal with the Pentagon to integrate Claude, its A.I. system, into the military’s operations.👈 @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

The Future We Feared Is Already Here www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Why The Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic open.spotify.com/episode/6obz... youtu.be/xc97F2CFBOY?...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @rhodesben.bsky.social discusses why Trump waged war on Iran — and why his predecessors didn’t dare to. open.spotify.com/episode/2hFe... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

This week's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents. open.spotify.com/episode/6aeT... youtu.be/lIJelwO8yHQ?...

What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered and that the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display. open.spotify.com/episode/0PZe... youtu.be/eBnQ6qxoMr8?...

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