Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-07-02
Books mentioned on The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate | The Ezra Klein Show
Matt Yglesias recommended Proto by Laura Spinney, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and The social transformation of American medicine by Paul Starr, and discussed The System by Haynes Johnson and others and White House Witness, 1942-1945 by Jonathan Daniels.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Proto
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney is a historical and scientific investigation into the origins and spread of the Proto-Indo-European language.
Recommended“Laura Spinney's book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global about the rise of the protoinduropean language.”
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic Gothic novel examining the destructive, all-consuming passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across the bleak Yorkshire moors.
Recommended“Weathering Heights, uh, which I just finished, um, a classic novel.”
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The social transformation of American medicine
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr is a comprehensive historical analysis examining how the medical profession gained economic and cultural authority in the United States.
Recommended“But I also revisited Paul Star's classic social transformation of American medicine because I've been trying to get my attention back on the healthcare issue.”
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The System
Discussed“David Broer wrote a book about the 1994 healthcare fight, the Bill Clinton healthcare fight called the system.”
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White House Witness, 1942-1945
Discussed“Yeah, because if you read Jonathan Conn's book about the 10-year war, about Obamacare, right, that's a halfway house, right?”
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