Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-07-25
Books mentioned on Has Trump Doomed Progress on Climate Change? | The Ezra Klein Show
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Complete Mars Trilogy
The Complete Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is a sweeping science fiction masterwork detailing the multi-generational colonization and terraforming of the red planet.
Recommended“And I guess maybe in that note, I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy to sort of take a break from all this heavy stuff. Um, and so one that I'll call out is Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but I think it's a great example of a story of sort of how humanity might muddle through the”
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Mating
Mating by Norman Rush is a sprawling, intellectually ambitious novel following a brilliant female American anthropologist in Botswana as she navigates an intellectual and romantic entanglement with a utopian community leader.
Recommended“Well, I'm way less nerdy than Jesse. So, my first recommendation, my um my first recommendation is um uh Norman Rush's Mating, which is just I just read that. Did you love it? I I love the first twothirds of it. Okay. In my view, that novel is sublime and beautiful and funny and an exploration of love and anthropology”
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Frontiers of Illusion
Frontiers of Illusion by Daniel Sarewitz is a critical examination of the relationship between scientific research, technological innovation, and public policy in modern society.
Recommended“The second one is Frontiers of Illusion by Daniel Sowitz who is just a brilliant thinker around science and technology policy and science and tech science and society and it just does a really great job sort of laying out both the myth the myths that we believe about science and how it operates and how we need to be”
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