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Ezra Klein’s book recommendations in 2025

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How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Frontrunner | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-12-10

Citizenville by Gavin Newsom · discussed · at 28:14

Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-21

Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria · discussed · at 1:43

Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-18

Just Kids by Patti Smith · discussed · at 0:34
Bread of Angels by Patti Smith · discussed · at 2:17

The Blue Wave Cometh?

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-07

The education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams · discussed · at 34:36

Ezra Klein: This Is How Democrats Win

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-02

In Defense of Politics by Bernard Crick · discussed · at 0:46

Why Rural America Turned on the Democratic Party | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-10-21

Rural Versus Urban by Suzanne Mettler · recommended · at 2:32

Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold? | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-10-17

Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Hussein Agha · discussed · at 1:48

Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-10-03

What Art Does by Bette Adriaanse · discussed · at 1:56
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño · discussed · at 28:25

Trump Is Building the Blue Scare | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-09-24

Red Scare by Clay Risen · discussed · at 7:16

Ezra Klein Is Worried — But Not About a Radicalized Left | Interesting Times With Ross Douthat

Interesting Times · 2025-09-18

Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall · discussed · at 33:35

We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-09-16

Lions & scavengers by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 11:03
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 54:22
Dominion by Tom Holland · discussed · at 1:08:41

Ross and Ezra Klein Discuss Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Interesting Times · 2025-08-21

Believe by Ross Douthat · discussed · at 1:40
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer · discussed · at 53:03

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-08-13

East West Street by Philippe Sands · discussed · at 7:29

The Man Driving the Nationalist Revival on the Right | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-08-01

Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 0:51
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony · discussed · at 7:07

Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-07-23

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart · discussed · at 17:31

How The Attention Economy is Devouring Gen Z | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-07-08

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott · discussed · at 34:47
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis · discussed · at 50:57

Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write

How I Write · 2025-05-28

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein · discussed · at 8:33
Political Liberalism by John Rawls · discussed · at 46:00

The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-05-28

Number Go Up by Zeke Faux · recommended · at 15:59

Is Trump Losing? A Debate | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-05-16

The Reactionary Spirit by Zack Beauchamp · recommended · at 1:14
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn · discussed · at 42:58

Educating Kids in the Age of A.I. | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-05-13

The Disengaged Teen by Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop · discussed · at 2:45
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt · discussed · at 59:14

Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-04-26

Believe by Ross Douthat · discussed · at 0:15
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer · discussed · at 50:20

The Very American Roots of Trumpism | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-04-24

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville · discussed · at 4:50

The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · 2025-04-11

Abundance by Ezra Klein · discussed · at 43:14

‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-04-01

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt · discussed · at 0:00
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt · discussed · at 2:37

#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-03-26

From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner · discussed · at 1:34:32
The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson · recommended · at 1:51:46
Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman · recommended · at 1:54:47

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Have a Plan for the Left

Honestly with Bari Weiss · 2025-03-18

Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani · discussed · at 7:59

Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-03-12

Open by Andre Agassi · discussed · at 52:17

This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty Test

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-03-05

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri · discussed · at 40:15

Donald Trump and the 'Revolt of the Elites'

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-02-25

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri · discussed · at 0:17

The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-02-16

The Federalist papers by Alexander Hamilton · discussed · at 6:56

What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts? | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-02-11

Race and Reunion by David W. Blight · recommended · at 1:32:55

MAGA’s Big Tech Divide | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-01-29

A World after Liberalism by Matthew Rose · recommended · at 37:39
The Unprotected Class by Jeremy Carl · discussed · at 45:44
Powering the Armed Forces by Gary Roughead, Jeremy Carl, Manuel Hernandez · discussed · at 45:44
Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen · recommended · at 1:31:19

Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-01-17

The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes · recommended · at 0:52

Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-01-10

The Origins of Elected Strongmen by Erica Frantz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joe Wright · discussed · at 5:32

Burned Out? Start Here.

The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-01-07

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman · discussed · at 0:54
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman · discussed · at 1:04
Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield · recommended · at 1:02:02
Death by Joan Tollifson · recommended · at 1:02:32

Other mentions in 2025 (16: passing, ad reads, own books)