This week, The Ezra Klein Show explores two very different frontiers of human knowledge and geopolitics. Michael Pollan examines what psychedelic research reveals about consciousness itself, while a conversation on Iran illuminates how miscalculation and asymmetric confidence shape international conflict—suggesting that understanding the world requires grappling with both the mysteries of the mind and the logic of adversaries.
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