This week, The Ezra Klein Show examined how attention itself has become a political commodity in an age of constant information overload. From the mechanics of how figures like Jon Ossoff command media focus to the ways our present moment increasingly mirrors dystopian fiction, the episodes traced a common thread: the rules governing what we notice—and who gets noticed—have fundamentally shifted. Together, they suggest that understanding modern politics and culture requires grappling with how attention is manufactured, distributed, and weaponized in real time.
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