The Ezra Klein Show brings deep, curious conversations about the biggest questions shaping our politics, culture and everyday lives. Host Ezra Klein, a New York Times columnist and longtime political analyst, talks with leading thinkers, writers, scientists and activists about everything from climate change and inequality to consciousness, psychedelics and the future of democracy. Each episode slows down the news cycle to ask what really matters, how we got here and what better futures might look like.
Recent shows have explored the broken U.S. tax system, Israel and Palestine’s “one-state reality,” the moral costs of war, the global stakes of energy crises, and new frontiers in understanding the mind. Whether he’s in conversation with policy experts, novelists or movement leaders, Klein looks for ideas that unsettle easy assumptions and illuminate the trade-offs beneath our headlines. It’s a show for listeners who want nuance, moral seriousness and imagination in their political and cultural storytelling.

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