Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-06-02
Ezra Klein & Ian Bremmer: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
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Ian Bremmer recommended The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson, and discussed Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam and The American Thomistic Revival in the Philosophical Papers of R.J. Henle, S.J. by Robert John Henle.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone by Robert D.
Discussed“The Robert Putnam book I think is much more specific and I wish people would talk in this language. We didn't hollow out the middle class. We hollowed out places.”
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The American Thomistic Revival in the Philosophical Papers of R.J. Henle, S.J.
Discussed“The Robert Putnam book I think is much more specific and I wish people would talk in this language. We didn't hollow out the middle class. We hollowed out places.”
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a beloved comedic science fiction classic that satirizes bureaucracy, existentialism, and the absurdities of the universe.
Recommended“Well, first, I've got to start with the Hitchhiker's Guide. Um because when I was in high school and college, there were basically three kinds of kids.”
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The Chronoliths
The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson is a science fiction novel that explores the sudden appearance of massive, mysterious monuments from the future that commemorate military victories yet to happen.
Recommended“And then finally I was going to say The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson which was written back in 2001 but which I went back and I read recently.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He's also the author of, among other books, Every Nation for Itself, What Happens When No One Leads the World.”
“I had this the first big book that I wrote back in 2006 was called the J Curve. And I doubt you even remember it, right?”