Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-11-01
Books mentioned on Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order?
Ezra Klein recommended The Known Citizen by Sarah E. Igo, and discussed The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle and The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith. Gary Gerstle recommended The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta and Underground Asia by Tim Harper.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle explores the emergence, dominance, and ultimate crisis of neoliberalism as a dominant political and economic paradigm.
Discussed“what does that tell us in his book the rise and fall of the neoliberal order the historian Gary gell introduced me to this concept of political orders these structures of political consensus that stretch over decades”
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The Affluent Society
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith is a classic economic treatise that examines the paradox of private wealth and public neglect in mid-century America.
Discussed“visually you have John Kenneth gallb one of the Great economists of the new dual era writing the affluent society which is all about the problems of the society where now there is much more plenty but what makes life worth living has been been eroded”
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta is a profound examination of American evangelicals navigating an era of profound political extremism.
Recommended“and a book that helped me a great deal is Tim Alberta's book The Kingdom the power and the glory American evangelicals in an age of extremism he took me into a world that I otherwise didn't have accessibility to and he helped me to understand a great deal that I did not”
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Underground Asia
Underground Asia by Tim Harper is a historical account detailing underground radicals, global revolutionaries, and the resistance against imperial powers in East, South, and Southeast Asia between 1900 and 1925.
Recommended“I'm always trying to read something fresh and new on the left and I found kind of an unconventional place to study this and read about it Tim Harper underground asia Global revolutionaries and the assault on Empire”
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The Known Citizen
The Known Citizen by Sarah E.
Recommended“and finally uh Sarah iigo the known citizen very different kind of book a history of privacy in modern America We're talking about morality We're talking about community and of course social media has put the question of privacy and what constitutes privacy and what's private and what's public such an urgent question in understanding America”
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“I published a whole book about political polarization it was called why we're polarized and I've been thinking a lot about how the polarization of this year is different than what I was tracking when I was writing that book”