Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-01-17
Books mentioned on Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. | The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein recommended The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes. Chris Hayes recommended Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte, and discussed 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Also mentioned: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Sirens' Call
Recommended“but he just wrote a great book called the sirens call how attention became the world's most endangered resource”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Recommended“always our final question what are three books You'd recommend to the audience so so first I'll start with a classic which is Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death the the goat The Goat in this in this discourse I think it still totally holds up”
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1984
Discussed“between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World”
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Brave New World
Discussed“between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World”
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How to Do Nothing
Recommended“great um another book that has been mentioned on your podcast a lot and relevant which is again I I feel like I'm sort of citing can Tex here and it's important for me to do because I want to be clear as we all are as authors you know lots of people have been thinking about this very well”
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Rejection
Recommended“and then my final is a work of fiction of short stories by an author named Tony Tula Tudi called rejection”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Blue Book
“when I was a kid I knew the manufacturer suggested retail price of every single car on the road by year like I could tell you not just not just what what a Camry cost but what a 93 Camry cost right cuz you must have had some book I had like the blue book”