Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-03-03
Books mentioned on The Great Lie of War | The Ezra Klein Show
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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From the Ruins of Empire
From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is an intellectual history examining how thinkers and leaders across the global South and decolonized spaces formulated alternatives to Western hegemony during the twentieth century.
Recommended“So a few things. I mean, on this last question, From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is a really excellent kind of intellectual history of for lack of a better way of putting it, you know, people global south or people in decolonized spaces um in the 20th century uh coming up with alternatives to Western hegemony.”
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The World of Yesterday
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig is a poignant autobiographical memoir that captures the collapse of European civilization and the loss of a liberal, cosmopolitan world order prior to the devastation of the Second World War.
Recommended“Then I personally, as someone who's been trying to make sense of what it's like to live in a collapsing liberal order, um The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig I found myself reading twice since Trump's election. But it's it's just haunting and beautiful um contemporaneous uh you know, Stefan Zweig was a great Austrian writer writing this writing”
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