Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-09-19
Books mentioned on Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D.
Discussed“when uh when Professor Putnham at Harvard produces a book writes a book called Bowling Alone.”
Where to get it
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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is a preeminent exploration of how the great rewiring of childhood through smartphones and social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness among young people.
Recommended“who's who's written the kind of the pre-minent book the anxious generation I was talking to Jonathan well before anxious generation came out”
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Our Biggest Fight
Our Biggest Fight by Frank H.
Recommended“I believe there's a great book called our our biggest fight by uh by Frank McCort that I would recommend where they make a really interesting argument”
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American Covenant
American Covenant by Yuval Levin is a political science book that examines the United States Constitution and its role in structuring contemporary American governance and civic life.
Recommended“And then American Covenant was his latest one, which is kind of the answer to A Time to Build. American Covenant is about the Constitution”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Why We're Polarized
“In 2020, I published my first book, which is called Why We're Polarized.”