Person
Ezra Klein's book recommendations
Books Ezra Klein recommends
-
The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt explores how the shift from a play-based childhood to a phone-based existence has disrupted adolescent development and fueled an epidemic of mental illness.
Discussed“I've known John height for many many years he's been on this show I've read the anxious generation”
Where to get it
-
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Recommended“We talk a lot about a book, I dunno if you've run into this one, but it's by Mancur Olson, who's sort of a Founder of Public Interest Economics, and it's called The Rise in Decline of Nations, this is like a very famous book, libertarians love this book, and I love this book.”
Where to get it
-
Confidence Man
Recommended“And so, you know, if you read, say, Maggie Haberman's great biography of Donald Trump, Confidence Man, which focuses a lot on his time as a real estate magnate in New York, you see like Donald Trump doesn't build a ton of stuff in other states.”
Where to get it
-
Abundance
Why people recommend it: Abundance is a political and economic book co-authored by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson that outlines a manifesto for progressive governance and reform.
Discussed“I just wrote an entire book about the failures of Democratic policymaking in this specific era. What I am saying is the bid administration's view of trade was that there are targeted industries we should be putting a lot of both domestic policy and international policy into play in order to protect and reshore or French shore...”
Where to get it
-
Believe
Discussed“He's the author of Believe, Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite a bit of it I had some questions about.”
Where to get it
-
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Discussed“You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's From Counterculture to Cyber Culture? That was a story of cheap housing.”
Where to get it
-
Hyperpolitics
Discussed“And he's also the author of this book, Hyper politics, extreme politicization without political consequences. And what he's describing is an era in which politics feels like it is everywhere.”
Where to get it
-
Inventing the Renaissance
Discussed“I've been reading about the Renaissance recently. Ada Palmer's great book on inventing the Renaissance.”
Where to get it
-
Public opinion
Discussed“So you go back to Walter Lipman's book, "Public Opinion," which I think comes out in 1922, if I'm not wrong, right around there. And Walter Lipman's answer to the reality that the world outside our heads differs from the world inside our heads”
Where to get it
-
The Disengaged Teen
Discussed“So you have in in your book these four modes of engagement. Do you want to talk through them?”
Where to get it
-
The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is a work of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion, arguing that human morality is rooted in intuition rather than pure reason.
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”
Where to get it
Books Ezra Klein wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book The Disengaged Teen
“Her latest book co-authored with Jenny Anderson is The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.”
Passing Smart on Crime
“First, she has a particular background from California, where she's a tough on crime, her book is called Smart on Crime Prosecutor, but she runs in the Democratic Party at time when it's turned on that kind of politics.”
Own book Why We're Polarized
“Republicans and democrats aren't gonna get along in Congress. That has to do with, I think the incentives of Congress, my first book is called Why We're Polarized, it's about those almost hydraulic incentives for partisanship.”