Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-10-18
Books mentioned on The Hidden Politics of Disorder
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The City That Became Safe
Discussed“um Franklin zimmering the criminologist has a book called the city that became safe which is about New York's experience specifically”
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Thinking About Crime
Thinking About Crime by James Q.
Recommended“The first one is a lot of the ideas I talked about particularly early in this conversation come from the work of the political scientist James Q Wilson arguably the most influential political scientist of the 20th century my personal ideological hero and his collection of essays thinking about crime was really influential on how I think about crime”
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Against Excess
Against Excess by Mark A.
Recommended“but instead I'll actually go with Mark kleinman's work on drug policy his book against excess which is in my mind the most analytically sound articulation of how to think about drug policy I've ever read just across the board it is a dense book”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a sweeping satirical novel that exposes the extreme greed, ambition, and urban dysfunction of 1980s New York City.
Recommended“and the book that I recommend to understand the sort of peak of urban dysfunction in America is Tom W bonfire the vanities which is you know his sendup of urban American life in the 1980s and I think is a parody but is also in many ways true to reality and says a lot about today's urban life as”
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