The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.

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Chris Rufo Thinks the Right Can Control This. I Don’t.

Christopher Rufo is arguably the most successful activist of the MAGA era. He rose to prominence fighting D.E.I. initiatives and critical race theory. In President Trump’s second term, he’s had a huge influence on policy, from Trump’s executive orders against D.E.I. and the attacks on the Department of Education to the ICE and C.B.P. deployments to Minneapolis. Rufo, helpfully, calls his shots. He has published a guide, “The New Right Activism: A Manifesto for the Counterrevolution,” in which he...

Jun 30, 2026•2 hr 5 min

I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

Author Gary Shteyngart joins Ezra Klein to explore how his 2010 novel, "Super Sad True Love Story," foresaw today's hyper-visual, ranking-obsessed culture and the pursuit of longevity and beauty without enjoyment. They delve into the societal anxieties, the decline of introspection, and the isolating effects of technology. Shteyngart also shares insights from his new book, "The Sensualist," on finding joy, craft, and authentic pleasure as a radical act in a world often driven by efficiency and unfulfilling competition.

Jun 19, 2026•1 hr 18 min

Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and the New Rules of Political Attention

Attention is working in really unusual ways this election cycle. Graham Platner, a political unknown a year ago, ended up dominating his Senate primary against Maine’s sitting governor – even as his campaign was rocked by a series of scandals. James Talarico also seemed to come out of nowhere to become the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas. Jon Ossoff has ginned up a ton of excitement as a potential 2028 presidential contender, in part because of his viral videos. Meanwhile, the former real...

Jun 16, 2026•1 hr 18 min

What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?

The Democratic Party is in the middle of a rupture over foreign policy – with Israel and Palestine at the center. In recent weeks, the Democratic senators Brian Schatz and Chris Van Hollen both called for a break with the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel. Schatz said the next administration needs “a whole new crop of foreign policy staffers,” while Van Hollen went further, accusing Biden’s senior decision makers of “complicity.” And Gaza has become a central issue splitting Democrat...

Jun 09, 2026•1 hr 34 min

The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men

A new masculinist movement has gone mainstream on the right. The prominent voices in this movement yearn for an earlier time, when men were men and women were women. Sometimes that time seems to be the 1950s, like when Tucker Carlson extols a world where men go to work and women stay at home. But sometimes it goes way farther back. The pastor Doug Wilson advocates household voting, in which men vote for their wives. And Costin Vlad Alamariu, better known as Bronze Age Pervert, harks back to the ...

Jun 05, 2026•1 hr 43 min

Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World

Ezra Klein and Ian Bremmer analyze Donald Trump's impact on American foreign policy, highlighting the incoherence in approaches to Iran and China. They delve into the perplexing gap between strong US economic data and widespread public dissatisfaction, attributing it to factors like rising inequality, algorithmic media, and a perceived breakdown of social mobility. The discussion further examines how technology, especially AI, could stratify society and how Trump's unilateral actions are eroding global trust and US indispensability, potentially pushing the world towards a "Gracchi Trap" of internal political decay.

Jun 02, 2026•1 hr 32 min

About the Coming Paywall

In a couple weeks, the archives of our show will only be available to subscribers. Here’s why that’s happening and what to expect. To learn more, go to nytimes.com/podcasts . Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz c...

Oct 02, 2024•4 min

Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show

Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. You can...

Jan 13, 2021•2 min

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