Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-04-01
Books mentioned on ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ | The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein discussed The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. Jonathan Haidt recommended The Age of Addiction by David T. Courtwright, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, The Stoic Challenge by William B. Irvine, Deep Work by Cal Newport, and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Anxious Generation
Discussed“in March of last year the social psychologist Jonathan height published this book called The anxious generation which caused let's call it a ster Jonathan”
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The Righteous Mind
Discussed“he's also the author of The Righteous Mind which I think is one of the best books on political psychology as well as other books”
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The Age of Addiction
Recommended“one is an incredible book called the age of addiction by David cordr and he Chronicles how you know people have always like wanted you know sugar”
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Stolen Focus
Recommended“Johan Harry has this wonderful book stolen focus and I believe he's right when he says if we adults clear it out”
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The Stoic Challenge
Recommended“here are the three books the first is the stoic challenge by William Irvine it really makes stoicism just so accessible you learn to like when you get setbacks the students learn to say like oh I just missed the subway”
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Deep Work
Recommended“uh the second book is by Cal Newport it's called Deep work and this is why I'm so passionate about attention without your attention you can't do anything”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Recommended“and then the third book is Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People it is timeless”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Anxious Generation
“there's this weird graph that I have in the book which shows the number of hours both men and women spend in parenting”
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“but your first book Is All About moral framework MH connect these for me”
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“what you're bringing up is one of the divisions that I talked about in The Righteous Mind between left and right”
Plugged The Anxious Generation
“we had a conversation mostly on chapter eight of the anxious generation on the spirituality chapter”