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
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is an influential examination of how smartphone technology, social media, and shifting childhood experiences have driven a severe mental health crisis among modern youth.
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
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is a psychology and sociology book that examines the intuitive foundations of morality and why good people are divided by politics and religion.
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
The Age of Addiction by David T.
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
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari explores the modern crisis of diminishing attention spans and the various societal forces that degrade human 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
The Stoic Challenge is a book by William B.
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
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a productivity and focus guide exploring how to master concentration in a distracted society.
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
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a timeless self-improvement guide focused on communication, empathy, and interpersonal relationship building.
Recommended“and then the third book is Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People it is timeless”
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“there's this weird graph that I have in the book which shows the number of hours both men and women spend in parenting”
“but your first book Is All About moral framework MH connect these for me”
“what you're bringing up is one of the divisions that I talked about in The Righteous Mind between left and right”
“we had a conversation mostly on chapter eight of the anxious generation on the spirituality chapter”