The Ezra Klein Show Transcripts
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The A.I. Revolt Is Here
Aug 4, 202678 min15,678 wordsChristopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul
Aug 2, 202616 min2,308 wordsHow Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman
Jul 31, 202658 min11,677 wordsWhat is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?
Jul 28, 202657 min11,636 wordsPlatner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong
Jul 24, 202678 min14,987 wordsBest Of: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
Jul 21, 202690 min14,589 wordsWhat Xi Jinping Wants
Jul 14, 2026103 min15,633 wordsThe Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Jul 10, 202685 min13,629 wordsA Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians
Jul 7, 202685 min12,492 wordsThe America That’s Still Possible
Jul 3, 2026105 min17,961 wordsChris Rufo Thinks the Right Can Control This. I Don’t.
Jun 30, 2026124 min22,066 wordsI Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel
Jun 19, 202678 min15,962 wordsGraham Platner, Jon Ossoff and the New Rules of Political Attention
Jun 16, 202678 min14,172 wordsWhat’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?
Jun 9, 202693 min17,904 wordsThe New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men
Jun 5, 2026103 min19,978 wordsIan Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World
Jun 2, 202691 min16,952 wordsDoes Trump Want to Lose the Midterms?
May 29, 202674 min14,179 wordsYuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep Making
May 26, 2026113 min17,256 wordsHow to End the Gerrymandering Doom Loop Forever
May 19, 202674 min13,119 wordsThis Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential
May 15, 202673 min12,433 wordsI Have Some Questions for the Democrats Who Want to Run California
May 12, 202692 min16,887 wordsGLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness
May 8, 202674 min13,714 wordsThe Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism
May 5, 202665 min10,957 wordsWhat We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’
Apr 28, 2026122 min21,965 wordsStewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle
Apr 24, 202650 min7,496 wordsWhy Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?
Apr 21, 202692 min16,308 wordsOur Tax System Should Make You Furious
Apr 17, 202665 min11,423 wordsReckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
Apr 14, 202687 min15,017 wordsThe Civilization Trump Destroys May Be Our Own
Apr 10, 202667 min10,650 wordsWhy Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand
Apr 3, 202661 min10,317 wordsMichael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
Mar 31, 202688 min15,219 wordsWill Iran Break Trumpism?
Mar 27, 202668 min10,899 wordsHow Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?
Mar 24, 202662 min11,400 wordsNaomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’
Mar 20, 202680 min13,900 wordsWhat Trump Didn’t Know About Iran
Mar 14, 202691 min14,391 wordsI Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War
Mar 10, 202660 min10,614 wordsWhy the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic
Mar 6, 202669 min12,652 wordsTrump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy
Mar 3, 202670 min12,652 wordsTrump’s Fantasy State of the Union
Feb 25, 202646 min7,861 wordsHow Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
Feb 24, 202698 min17,586 wordsWho Has the Power in Trump's White House?
Feb 20, 202671 min12,985 wordsThe Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
Feb 13, 202686 min13,719 wordsGeorge Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
Feb 10, 202687 min16,298 wordsEverything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It
Feb 6, 202687 min16,523 wordsIs Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
Feb 3, 202691 min17,052 wordsHow the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze
Jan 30, 202663 min11,466 wordsThe Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years
Jan 27, 202674 min12,577 wordsMinneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going
Jan 23, 202666 min11,321 wordsHas Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?
Jan 16, 202661 min10,284 wordsCan James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
Jan 13, 202688 min14,815 wordsVenezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
Jan 10, 202665 min9,505 wordsWhat Trump Wants in Venezuela
Jan 6, 202658 min10,329 wordsThis Question Can Change Your Life
Jan 2, 202665 min9,833 wordsThe Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025
Dec 23, 202577 min14,258 wordsThe Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money
Dec 16, 202565 min11,926 wordsPatti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Nov 18, 202577 min11,230 wordsThe Blue Wave Cometh?
Nov 7, 202558 min10,353 wordsThis Is How the Democratic Party Beats Trump
Nov 2, 202537 min5,761 wordsCan Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?
Oct 24, 202563 min12,306 wordsThe Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
Oct 21, 202564 min10,039 wordsHow Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?
Oct 15, 202567 min11,850 wordsA Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
Oct 3, 202590 min14,149 wordsTrump Is Building the Blue Scare
Sep 24, 202586 min14,241 wordsWe Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other
Sep 16, 2025115 min23,925 wordsIf Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It
Sep 7, 202522 min3,384 wordsThe Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab
Sep 2, 202556 min10,326 wordsTrump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
Aug 27, 202568 min11,722 wordsMAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
Aug 22, 202582 min14,733 wordsYour Questions (and Criticisms) of Our Recent Shows
Aug 20, 202559 min9,716 wordsWhen Is It Genocide?
Aug 13, 2025102 min15,692 wordsBehind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
Aug 1, 202578 min12,882 wordsBest Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’
Jul 29, 202561 min9,962 wordsIs Decarbonization Dead?
Jul 25, 202577 min15,087 wordsWhy American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
Jul 23, 202523 min3,724 wordsWhy Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
Jul 17, 202569 min13,140 words
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