On retrouve avec un plaisir renouvelé l'écrivain Mauricio Ségura pour discuter de son excellent roman Les amandiers en fleurs, une construction narrative complexe qui aborde la visite d'Albert Camus au Chili à la fin des années 40 avec comme toile de fond, la dictature de Pinochet et la mémoire des femmes qui ont courageusement combattu la dictature là-bas et ici à Montréal et les traces laissées par ces combats sur leurs familles. C'est aussi le retour de la chronique de Maxime Laprise qui a
On retrouve avec un plaisir renouvelé l'écrivain Mauricio Ségura pour discuter de son excellent roman Les amandiers en fleurs, une construction narrative complexe qui aborde la visite d'Albert Camus au Chili à la fin des années 40 avec comme toile de fond, la dictature de Pinochet et la mémoire des femmes qui ont courageusement combattu la dictature là-bas et ici à Montréal et les traces laissées par ces combats sur leurs familles.
C'est aussi le retour de la chronique de Maxime Laprise qui a (enfin) terminé son doctorat et qui a maintenant le temps de réfléchir aux discours apocalyptiques qui ont clairsemé l'histoire.
Fred termine l'épisode avec une réflexion sur les épiceries publiques déjà fortement critiquées (Ô surprise) dans les médias traditionnels.
Here’s a shocking number: One out of eight American adults is taking a GLP-1, like Ozempic or Zepbound, according to a KFF poll.
GLP-1s are the biggest pharmaceutical story since antidepressants. But there’s still so much we don’t know.
“We’re only at the beginning of what’s been called this Ozempic era,” the journalist Julia Belluz told me. “I think we’re really just at the beginning of discovering the benefits and the harms of these drugs.” These discoveries begin in the research but are also
Here’s a shocking number: One out of eight American adults is taking a GLP-1, like Ozempic or Zepbound, according to a KFF poll.
GLP-1s are the biggest pharmaceutical story since antidepressants. But there’s still so much we don’t know.
“We’re only at the beginning of what’s been called this Ozempic era,” the journalist Julia Belluz told me. “I think we’re really just at the beginning of discovering the benefits and the harms of these drugs.” These discoveries begin in the research but are also expanding into how we think about our punishing beauty standards and the blurry lines between illness and wellness.
Belluz is a contributing Opinion writer and the author, with Kevin Hall, of “Food Intelligence.” She’s one of the best health and science reporters I know and has been reporting on GLP-1s for years.
In this conversation, Belluz takes me through what we know — and don’t know — about GLP-1s, their unexpected uses, how they are clashing with a culture obsessed with thinness and looksmaxxing, and whether everyone should be on them.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Julie Beer. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Johnny Simon. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Transcript editing by Sarah Murphy and Marlaine Glicksman.
In the U.S., illiberalism is in power. I don’t think anybody really argues against that. But I’ve been surprised by how weak liberalism has felt in response.
Donald Trump isn’t a popular president; he isn’t making people want more of what he is. But if the forces of illiberalism are really going to be turned back in this country, I think more people need to be excited and inspired by liberalism itself. We need a liberalism that stands for more than “not Trump.”
So I’ve been on my own esoteric jo
In the U.S., illiberalism is in power. I don’t think anybody really argues against that. But I’ve been surprised by how weak liberalism has felt in response.
Donald Trump isn’t a popular president; he isn’t making people want more of what he is. But if the forces of illiberalism are really going to be turned back in this country, I think more people need to be excited and inspired by liberalism itself. We need a liberalism that stands for more than “not Trump.”
So I’ve been on my own esoteric journey, reading a lot of books on the history of liberalism, trying to understand what excited and inspired people in the past, and how liberals overcame crises like the one we’re in. And reading one of those books, “The Lost History of Liberalism” by Helena Rosenblatt, it felt like an epiphany — that this was a piece of the puzzle.
So I wanted to have Rosenblatt on the show to talk about it. Rosenblatt is a professor of history, political science and French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in this conversation, she walks me through the history of liberalism that she uncovered, and the values that once lived at its heart.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Julie Beer. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Johnny Simon. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta and Lauren Reddy. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Transcript editing by Filipa Pajevic and Marlaine Glicksman.
Nous recevons Chantal Desjardins de la FOHM (Fédération des OSBL d'habitation de Montréal) pour parler de la journée de réflexion post missions européennes qui a eu lieu l'automne dernier. Puis en 2e Nous recevons Architecture sans Frontières avec Bruno Demers.
Nous recevons Chantal Desjardins de la FOHM (Fédération des OSBL d'habitation de Montréal) pour parler de la journée de réflexion post missions européennes qui a eu lieu l'automne dernier. Puis en 2e Nous recevons Architecture sans Frontières avec Bruno Demers.
Émission consacrée aux aînées , d'abord avec l'auteur chercheur Julien Simard pour parler de la gérontoviction. "Vieillissement et crise du logement". Puis en 2e partie Isabelle Richard reçoit des battantes de la résidence Mont-Carmel qui luttent contre la perte de leur milieu de vie.
Émission consacrée aux aînées , d'abord avec l'auteur chercheur Julien Simard pour parler de la gérontoviction. "Vieillissement et crise du logement". Puis en 2e partie Isabelle Richard reçoit des battantes de la résidence Mont-Carmel qui luttent contre la perte de leur milieu de vie.
Pour ce 30e épisode de la saison 8, on reçoit la nouvelle co-rédactrice en chef Claire Ross qui vous nous présenter le dernier numéro de la revue Liberté, le #350. On reçoit Louis Couillard de Greenpeace qui nous fait découvrir le mystérieux projet Marinvest, un mastodonte venu de Norvège dont on sait très très peu de choses mais qui s’active en secret auprès de nos élu-es pour notre plus grand mal. Godefroy Laurendeau ajoute ses réflexions au sujet des projets de loi C5 et PL69, des réflexions
Pour ce 30e épisode de la saison 8, on reçoit la nouvelle co-rédactrice en chef Claire Ross qui vous nous présenter le dernier numéro de la revue Liberté, le #350.
On reçoit Louis Couillard de Greenpeace qui nous fait découvrir le mystérieux projet Marinvest, un mastodonte venu de Norvège dont on sait très très peu de choses mais qui s’active en secret auprès de nos élu-es pour notre plus grand mal.
Godefroy Laurendeau ajoute ses réflexions au sujet des projets de loi C5 et PL69, des réflexions inspirées des travaux du CQDE qui nous permettent de mieux comprendre ce qui se trame derrière les portes closes.
Le dernier segment de cet épisode aborde des thèmes tels que la violence sexuelle, l'abus de mineur·es et le suicide. On préfère vous en avertir.Dans cet épisode du balado Cyber Citoyen, nous sommes accompagné de notre ami Nicolas-Loïc du balado Polysécure pour discuter:d'un mystère sur Tinder, d'une application de "vibe coding" qui crée des sites Web très, mais vraiment très publics, de Mythos d'Anthropic, l'IA tellement dangereuse qu'elle ne peut pas être rendue publique,du groupe de sextortio
Le dernier segment de cet épisode aborde des thèmes tels que la violence sexuelle, l'abus de mineur·es et le suicide. On préfère vous en avertir.
Dans cet épisode du balado Cyber Citoyen, nous sommes accompagné de notre ami Nicolas-Loïc du balado Polysécure pour discuter:
d'un mystère sur Tinder,
d'une application de "vibe coding" qui crée des sites Web très, mais vraiment très publics,
de Mythos d'Anthropic, l'IA tellement dangereuse qu'elle ne peut pas être rendue publique,
du groupe de sextortion et d'abus 764 et de l'arrestation d'un homme de la Ville de Québec accusé d'en faire partie.
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“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued. So I wanted to take a moment to talk through what’s really happened in the last year – with Derek Thompson, my “Abundance” co-author, and Marc Dunkelman, whose book “Why Nothing Works” came out around the same time, and circles the same ideas.
What has the abundance movement actually achieved in the
“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued. So I wanted to take a moment to talk through what’s really happened in the last year – with Derek Thompson, my “Abundance” co-author, and Marc Dunkelman, whose book “Why Nothing Works” came out around the same time, and circles the same ideas.
What has the abundance movement actually achieved in the last year? Where has it fallen short? And what have the three of us learned from our critics?
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Ezra is moderating a forum on housing and affordability with some of the top California gubernatorial candidates. The event is on Friday, May 8, in Oakland, CA. You can buy tickets here. Use the code EKSHOW for 20 percent off your order.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Annika Robbins and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta and Lauren Reddy. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Brianna Johnson.
Au coeur de cet épisode enregistré à la librairie Raffin sur la Plaza à Montréal, une discussion riche sur « l’affaire Grasset » qui secoue le monde du livre en France (et au Québec). Fred Savard réunit autour de la table Mathieu Bélisle, Helen Faradji, l’écrivaine Claire Legendre (publiée chez Grasset) et le professeur Julien Lefort-Favreau, grand spécialiste du monde du livre et de l’édition ici et en France. Avec eux, on se demande si le milliardaire Vincent Bolloré n'est pas en train d'y al
Au coeur de cet épisode enregistré à la librairie Raffin sur la Plaza à Montréal, une discussion riche sur « l’affaire Grasset » qui secoue le monde du livre en France (et au Québec). Fred Savard réunit autour de la table Mathieu Bélisle, Helen Faradji, l’écrivaine Claire Legendre (publiée chez Grasset) et le professeur Julien Lefort-Favreau, grand spécialiste du monde du livre et de l’édition ici et en France. Avec eux, on se demande si le milliardaire Vincent Bolloré n'est pas en train d'y aller d'un coup de force pour soumettre le monde de l'édition en France au service de son projet "civilisationnel"
Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bridge figure between the San Francisco counterculture and the emerging technology scene. He created the legendary Trips Festival with Ken Kesey in 1966, and was there at “the mother of all demos” in 1968. And he created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs called “one of the bibles of my generation” and “Google in paperback form, 35 y
Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bridge figure between the San Francisco counterculture and the emerging technology scene. He created the legendary Trips Festival with Ken Kesey in 1966, and was there at “the mother of all demos” in 1968. And he created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs called “one of the bibles of my generation” and “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along.”
Brand has seen Silicon Valley evolve in the decades since. And along the way, he has written many brilliant books about our relationship to technology, the built environment and the natural world. His latest book is “Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One.”
In this conversation, we discuss everything from dropping acid to the genesis of the Whole Earth Catalog, what he thinks A.I. will reveal about humanity, the 40 years he’s spent living on a tugboat and the importance of maintenance in a culture that prizes novelty and disposability.
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Ezra is moderating a forum on housing and affordability with some of the top California gubernatorial candidates. The event is on Friday, May 8, in Oakland, CA. You can buy tickets here. Use the code EKSHOW for 20 percent off your order.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Kelsey Lannin. Our recording engineers are Aman Sahota and Johnny Simon. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Fred Turner.
Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this election cycle, and a considerable amount of that money is going toward attack ads against Alex Bores – even though Bores himself used to work for Palantir.
Bores is a New York state assemblyman who is running for Congress to represent New York’s 12th District. His campaign includes an extensive A.I. policy platform, including demands for A.I. companies t
Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this election cycle, and a considerable amount of that money is going toward attack ads against Alex Bores – even though Bores himself used to work for Palantir.
Bores is a New York state assemblyman who is running for Congress to represent New York’s 12th District. His campaign includes an extensive A.I. policy platform, including demands for A.I. companies to be more transparent about safety, and an idea for an “A.I. dividend” that would redistribute some of the profits of A.I. companies to the public. So his race has turned into a central battleground over the future of the A.I. industry and who has the power to shape it.
In this conversation, we discuss how Bores went from working for Palantir to running a campaign that would regulate the A.I. industry, the major issues he thinks A.I. policy needs to address, and his response to the attacks against him.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Lori Segal. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta and Lauren Reddy. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Gregory C. Allen.
On rencontre la Québécoise Madeleine Leclair, conservatrice au Musée d’ethnographie de Genève qui était de passage au Québec et avec qui j'ai eu le bonheur de discuter de son parcours académique, de son parcours musical et de son travail de conservatrice dans un musée d'ethnographie. Madeleine nous a également permis de capter et diffuser une prestation qu’elle donna au département de musique de l’UQAM lors de son passage au Québec. Un moment très précieux pour la balado. NB: La photo de vignet
On rencontre la Québécoise Madeleine Leclair, conservatrice auMusée d’ethnographie de Genève qui était de passage au Québec et avec qui j'ai eu le bonheur de discuter de son parcours académique, de son parcours musical et de son travail de conservatrice dans un musée d'ethnographie.
Madeleine nous a également permis de capter et diffuser une prestation qu’elle donna au département de musique de l’UQAM lors de son passage au Québec. Un moment très précieux pour la balado.
NB: La photo de vignette est celle de Miriam Makeba lors du Festival Panafricain de 1969 qui a été utilisée pour l’exposition « Afrosonica » dont Madeleine Leclair était co-commissaire.
Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth.
In 2021, ProPublica published an investigation built on leaked tax documents that reveal what some of the richest Americans really pay — or don’t. Warren Buffett had a true tax rate of 0.1 percent. Jeff Bezos: 0.98 percent. Michael Bloomberg: 1.3 percent.
Ultra-wealthy Americans have essentially been written out of the tax system. “It’s wrong
Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth.
In 2021, ProPublica published an investigation built on leaked tax documents that reveal what some of the richest Americans really pay — or don’t. Warren Buffett had a true tax rate of 0.1 percent. Jeff Bezos: 0.98 percent. Michael Bloomberg: 1.3 percent.
Ultra-wealthy Americans have essentially been written out of the tax system. “It’s wrong as a matter of principle. It’s wrong because we need their money. It’s wrong as a matter of fairness. It is wrong for so many reasons,” the law professor Ray Madoff told me.
She’s the author of the new book “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy,” and she’s interested in helping people understand how broken the American tax system is and how to fix it.
In this conversation, we discuss the techniques the ultra-wealthy use to evade the tax system, why they think “salaries are for suckers” and what tax reform could look like.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta and Lauren Reddy. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Edward Fox.
For decades, most discussions of Israel and Palestine were framed around the eventual creation of a two-state solution. That effort has been dead for years. What has emerged in its place is what the political scientists Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami call the “one-state reality.” Their book on this — edited with Michael Barnett and Nathan Brown — came out before Oct. 7, 2023.
Since Oct. 7, that reality has become further entrenched: There’s been a record pace of settlement construction in the We
For decades, most discussions of Israel and Palestine were framed around the eventual creation of a two-state solution. That effort has been dead for years. What has emerged in its place is what the political scientists Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami call the “one-state reality.” Their book on this — edited with Michael Barnett and Nathan Brown — came out before Oct. 7, 2023.
Since Oct. 7, that reality has become further entrenched: There’s been a record pace of settlement construction in the West Bank. Israel now occupies more than half the territory of Gaza. And Israel’s push into Lebanon has displaced more than a million people.
So what does it mean to reckon with Israel’s one-state reality — to see the facts on the ground rather than the frames of the past?
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, College Park. Marc Lynch is the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University. Lynch is the author, most recently, of “America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region.”
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Mark Mazzetti.
On retrouve avec grand plaisir la chercheure Anne Plourde de l'IRIS qui nous dévoile sa plus récente étude sur une révolution du financement de la santé qui passe complètement sous le radar médiatique. Godefroy Laurendeau nous fait découvrir 3 penseurs des marges qui réfléchissent à la transition énergétique de façon complètement novatrice. Et Fred nous explique comment il est devenu persona non grata à la Coalition Avenir Québec.
On retrouve avec grand plaisir la chercheure Anne Plourde de l'IRIS qui nous dévoile sa plus récente étude sur une révolution du financement de la santé qui passe complètement sous le radar médiatique.
Godefroy Laurendeau nous fait découvrir 3 penseurs des marges qui réfléchissent à la transition énergétique de façon complètement novatrice.
Et Fred nous explique comment il est devenu persona non grata à la Coalition Avenir Québec.
When President Trump didn’t annihilate “a whole civilization” on Tuesday, as he had threatened to do, much of the world exhaled. But the damage of his statements — a U.S. president, the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military, threatening to commit war crimes — continues to linger in the shadow of an uncertain cease-fire.
Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and the author of “Age of Revolutions” and other books. In this conversation, we discuss whether Trump
When President Trump didn’t annihilate “a whole civilization” on Tuesday, as he had threatened to do, much of the world exhaled. But the damage of his statements — a U.S. president, the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military, threatening to commit war crimes — continues to linger in the shadow of an uncertain cease-fire.
Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and the author of “Age of Revolutions” and other books. In this conversation, we discuss whether Trump’s threats on Truth Social worked as a negotiating tactic, the significance of crossing this kind of moral line and how the decline of American leadership is already reshaping the world.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Jack McCordick, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker and Aman Sahota. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans cet épisode, la balado a le très grand honneur de recevoir la sociologue française Gisèle Sapiro qui lors de son dernier passage au Québec, a accepté de venir discuter de son essai marquant Peut-on dissocier l'œuvre de l'auteur paru chez Seuil en 2020. Avec elle, on survole plus d’un siècle de polémiques littéraires et on réfléchit au rôle de l’écrivain et son rapport complexe à son oeuvre et l’impact qu’il peut avoir sur la société. Une discussion marquante dans l’histoire de la balado.
Dans cet épisode, la balado a le très grand honneur de recevoir la sociologue française Gisèle Sapiro qui lors de son dernier passage au Québec, a accepté de venir discuter de son essai marquant Peut-on dissocier l'œuvre de l'auteurparu chez Seuil en 2020.
Avec elle, on survole plus d’un siècle de polémiques littéraires et on réfléchit au rôle de l’écrivain et son rapport complexe à son oeuvre et l’impact qu’il peut avoir sur la société. Une discussion marquante dans l’histoire de la balado.
In a prime time address on Wednesday, President Trump proclaimed that America was “on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat.” But he also kept open the option of boots on the ground. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is also about to start really biting – as countries get hit with shortages, which would spike prices across the globe.
So what are Trump’s options? What would happen if he just declared victory and walked away from the fight? What kinds of military operations are on
In a prime time address on Wednesday, President Trump proclaimed that America was “on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat.” But he also kept open the option of boots on the ground. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is also about to start really biting – as countries get hit with shortages, which would spike prices across the globe.
So what are Trump’s options? What would happen if he just declared victory and walked away from the fight? What kinds of military operations are on the table? If Trump ended the war without achieving his strategic goals, what would that mean for the United States, for Iran and for the world?
“I don’t see a victory in real terms at the end of this crisis…,” Suzanne Maloney told me. “And that is a very dangerous outcome for the long term.”
Maloney is one of Washington’s leading Iran experts. She has advised several presidential administrations and has written or edited a number of books on Iran. She is the vice president and director of the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy program.
Note: This conversation was recorded on Wednesday morning, before Trump’s speech on the war. But the speech reflected Maloney’s analysis almost perfectly.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And yet we barely understand it. We don’t know what it’s made of or how it works or why it exists.
But scientists and theorists have been trying to answer those questions, and have made some startling discoveries. The science writer Michael Pollan, known for books like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “How to Change Your Mind,” spent five years on the vangu
Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And yet we barely understand it. We don’t know what it’s made of or how it works or why it exists.
But scientists and theorists have been trying to answer those questions, and have made some startling discoveries. The science writer Michael Pollan, known for books like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “How to Change Your Mind,” spent five years on the vanguard of this research. And his new book, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness,” shows that the closer you look at consciousness, the weirder it gets.
I asked Pollan to walk through some of the places his mind wandered on this journey — including the role of the body and feelings in consciousness, fascinating studies that provide evidence for plant sentience, the researchers who have abandoned their old theories after trying psychedelic drugs, and the possibility that consciousness may not emerge from inside us at all. “I’ve entered this ‘never say never’ realm with this research,” Pollan told me.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Kim Freda. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans cet épisode, on discute du concept de dépendance et de quelle façon il est sollicité dans les médias, avec comme point de départ le grand dossier de La Presse sur notre supposé dépendance aux écrans paru il a quelques jours. En compagnie des chercheur-es universitaires Vincent Wagner, Andrée-Anne Légaré et Jean-Sébastien Fallu qui font des dépendances leur champ d'expertise, on réfléchit aux biais et aux zones grises entourant un concept complexe aux multiples facettes.
En compagnie des chercheur-es universitaires Vincent Wagner, Andrée-Anne Légaré et Jean-Sébastien Falluqui font des dépendances leur champ d'expertise, on réfléchit aux biais et aux zones grises entourant un concept complexe aux multiples facettes.
Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war?
That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication the Claremont Review of Books,and he’s one of the people who’ve been trying to define, and even craft, a coherent Trumpism. So his recent article in The Spectator, “The End of Trumpism,” sparked a lot of debate on the right.
At the core of this debate are some fundamental questions that I think remai
Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war?
That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication the Claremont Review of Books,and he’s one of the people who’ve been trying to define, and even craft, a coherent Trumpism. So his recent article in The Spectator, “The End of Trumpism,” sparked a lot of debate on the right.
At the core of this debate are some fundamental questions that I think remain unresolved, despite Trump’s decade-long dominance of the Republican Party: What is Trumpism? Is there Trumpism, or is there just Donald Trump?
Caldwell is a contributing writer for Times Opinion and the author of “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.” In this conversation, he explains how he understood Trumpism as a movement of “democratic restoration” — and why he believes the Iran war betrays that. And I ask him why he sees the seams of Trump’s base fraying, despite polling that suggests otherwise.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans cet épisode, Nicolas-Loïc Fortin du balado Polysécure se joint à nous pour discuter de sujets d'actualités.Nous abordons le dépôt du projet de loi C-22, une fuite de données du département de la sécurité intérieure des États-Unis qui dévoile l'intérêt pour les solutions de surveillance et une nouvelle application d'astroturfing politique vendue au Canada. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Dans cet épisode, Nicolas-Loïc Fortin du balado Polysécure se joint à nous pour discuter de sujets d'actualités.
Nous abordons le dépôt du projet de loi C-22, une fuite de données du département de la sécurité intérieure des États-Unis qui dévoile l'intérêt pour les solutions de surveillance et une nouvelle application d'astroturfing politique vendue au Canada.
Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more strikes on energy infrastructure in the region — the price of oil could go through the roof, and the damage to the global economy could be catastrophic.
So what would that look like? What tools does the United States have to avert it? And how is this crisis already reverberating in countries around the world?
Jason Bordoff is the founding director
Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more strikes on energy infrastructure in the region — the price of oil could go through the roof, and the damage to the global economy could be catastrophic.
So what would that look like? What tools does the United States have to avert it? And how is this crisis already reverberating in countries around the world?
Jason Bordoff is the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a founding dean of the Columbia Climate School. He served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for energy and climate change on the National Security Council.
In this conversation, Bordoff answers all my questions about the crisis so far and how things could spin out from here, the strategic positioning of the United States, Europe, Iran, Russia and China, the developing countries likely to suffer the most and the lessons the world might take from this.
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
On inaugure un nouveau segment avec les gens de l’IRIS alors que Colin Pratte vient nous expliquer pourquoi la sous-traitance est une très vilaine chose quand on parle de transport collectif. Avec Godefroy Laurendeau, on découvre sa nouvelle série balado J’aime ton énergie dont les 3 épisodes sont déjà en ligne ! Et on termine l’épisode avec la présentation du #200 de Lettres Québécoises avec l’équipe Nicholas Giguère et Mégane Desrosiers.
On inaugure un nouveau segment avec les gens de l’IRIS alors que Colin Pratte vient nous expliquer pourquoi la sous-traitance est une très vilaine chose quand on parle de transport collectif.
Avec Godefroy Laurendeau, on découvre sa nouvelle série balado J’aime ton énergie dont les 3 épisodes sont déjà en ligne !
Et on termine l’épisode avec la présentation du #200 de Lettres Québécoises avec l’équipe Nicholas Giguère et Mégane Desrosiers.
Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to describe. But among other things, it traces the new coalitions Klein saw forming on the right, the ways they were co-opting issues long associated with the left, and finding huge audiences and influence outside existing institutions.
The people and coalitions that Klein wrote about run our world now. We are all living in the mirror world. As she put
Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to describe. But among other things, it traces the new coalitions Klein saw forming on the right, the ways they were co-opting issues long associated with the left, and finding huge audiences and influence outside existing institutions.
The people and coalitions that Klein wrote about run our world now. We are all living in the mirror world. As she put it, it’s “doppelgangers at the wheel.” So I wanted to have Klein on the show to help understand how that happened, what the left failed to see at the time and the lessons the left should take from it now.
As Klein told me: “The thing about doppelgangers is, in literature, they’re always a message telling you a warning: You have to look at yourself. There’s something about yourself that you’re not seeing.”
Note: We recorded this episode before the war in Iran.
The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in the first place because of a whole series of misjudgments and miscalculations going back decades.
Ali Vaez is the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group. He was involved in the negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal, and is in fact himself a nuclear scientist. He’s also an author of “How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact
The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in the first place because of a whole series of misjudgments and miscalculations going back decades.
Ali Vaez is the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group. He was involved in the negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal, and is in fact himself a nuclear scientist. He’s also an author of “How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare.”
In this conversation, Vaez explains how over 47 years the United States, Israel and Iran came to one another as threats, and why so many efforts to thaw relations failed. It’s the briefing on Iran that Trump should have received before he decided to go to war.
Mentioned:
How Sanctions Work by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Aman Sahota and Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Alors que l’Iran est sous le feu des bombes américaines et israéliennes, la balado tend le micro à Nimâ Machouf, femme de science et politicienne d’origine iranienne. Avec elle, on brosse le tableau d’un pays millénaire traversé depuis plus d’un siècle par l’ingérence occidentale, par quelques sursauts de démocratie étouffés par une révolution islamique qui terreur et violence sur une population qui n’a plus rien à perdre. Une discussion citoyenne riche d’une grande humanité.
Alors que l’Iran est sous le feu des bombes américaines et israéliennes, la balado tend le micro à Nimâ Machouf, femme de science et politicienne d’origine iranienne. Avec elle, on brosse le tableau d’un pays millénaire traversé depuis plus d’un siècle par l’ingérence occidentale, par quelques sursauts de démocratie étouffés par une révolution islamique qui terreur et violence sur une population qui n’a plus rien à perdre.
Une discussion citoyenne riche d’une grande humanité.
I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Iran. I don’t think the administration is prepared for what the strikes might unleash.
But I wanted to try to understand President Trump’s decisions from the perspective of somebody much friendlier to his foreign policy. Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first ter
I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Iran. I don’t think the administration is prepared for what the strikes might unleash.
But I wanted to try to understand President Trump’s decisions from the perspective of somebody much friendlier to his foreign policy. Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term. She led the drafting and publication of the 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States.
In this conversation, Schadlow gives the conservative case for war with Iran, and for attacking without first building support in Congress or with the public. And I ask her how she squares Trump the candidate, who ran on a promise of not starting new wars, with the Trump of today, who’s deposed two heads of state since the start of 2026, and now says he won’t rule out boots on the ground in Iran. Is there a consistent worldview here? Or did Trump change?
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans cet épisode, on replonge dans le documentaire Manufacturing Consent avec Philippe De Grosbois afin de voir si la pensée de Noam Chomsky est encore pertinente aujourd’hui, en plein conflit entre les États-Unis, Israël et l'Iran. On revient également sur la révélation des liens que Chomsky entretenait avec Jeffrey Epstein. Le prof Jonathan Martel revient documenter le processus qui est en train de faire de lui un chercheur universitaire et en fin d’épisode, Fred réfléchit sur la présence de P
Dans cet épisode, on replonge dans le documentaire Manufacturing Consentavec Philippe De Grosbois afin de voir si la pensée de Noam Chomsky est encore pertinente aujourd’hui, en plein conflit entre les États-Unis, Israël et l'Iran. On revient également sur la révélation des liens que Chomsky entretenait avec Jeffrey Epstein.
Le prof Jonathan Martel revient documenter le processus qui est en train de faire de lui un chercheur universitaire et en fin d’épisode, Fred réfléchit sur la présence de Pierre Pahlavisur les ondes du diffuseur public comme analyste crédible du conflit en Iran
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation for companies so dangerous, they can’t exist anywhere in the U.S. military supply chain. What makes this so wild is the military is still using Anthropic’s A.I. system right now. They reportedly used it during the raid to capture Maduro in Venezuela, and are now using it in the war in Iran.
This sto
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation for companies so dangerous, they can’t exist anywhere in the U.S. military supply chain. What makes this so wild is the military is still using Anthropic’s A.I. system right now. They reportedly used it during the raid to capture Maduro in Venezuela, and are now using it in the war in Iran.
This story raises so many questions: Why does the government think Anthropic is so dangerous? How exactly is the government using A.I. right now? How do they want to use A.I.? And who should ultimately control this powerful and uncertain technology?
Dean Ball is a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and the author of the newsletter Hyperdimensional. He served as a senior policy adviser on A.I. for the Trump White House and was the primary staff writer of their A.I. action plan. But he’s been furious at the Trump administration for how it has been handling the conflict with Anthropic. So I wanted to have him on the show to explain why.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart.
On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with much of his senior command. This came less than two months after the United States military captured Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, in an overnight raid.
The president seems to believe that he can decapitate these regimes and control their successors without events spinning o
On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with much of his senior command. This came less than two months after the United States military captured Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, in an overnight raid.
The president seems to believe that he can decapitate these regimes and control their successors without events spinning out of his control. Is he right?
Ben Rhodes is a New York Times Opinion contributing writer and a co-host of “Pod Save the World.” He served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and worked on the Iran nuclear deal.
In this conversation, we discuss the ongoing conflict in Iran, how Democrats should respond, and whether Trump’s “head on a pike” approach to foreign policy underestimates the chaos of war.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker, and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Il fallait que ça arrive. Le département de la Justice américain a dévoilé une autre série de courriels et documents relatifs à l'affaire Jeffrey Epstein. Nous n'avons donc pas eu le choix d'accorder un deuxième épisode aux fameux "Epstein Files".Si ce n'est pas déjà fait, on vous recommande d'écouter l'épisode #60, où on a fait un résumé de l'affaire, de la biographie de Jeffrey Epstein, des coïncidences louches et des questions non résolues.Catherine pose la question: les conspirationnistes av
Il fallait que ça arrive. Le département de la Justice américain a dévoilé une autre série de courriels et documents relatifs à l'affaire Jeffrey Epstein. Nous n'avons donc pas eu le choix d'accorder un deuxième épisode aux fameux "Epstein Files".
Si ce n'est pas déjà fait, on vous recommande d'écouter l'épisode #60, où on a fait un résumé de l'affaire, de la biographie de Jeffrey Epstein, des coïncidences louches et des questions non résolues.
Catherine pose la question: les conspirationnistes avaient-ils raison?
On discute des plus récentes révélations et des précautions à prendre lorsqu'on s'aventure dans ce type de recherche.
Bonne écoute!
Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
On retrouve Helen Faradji qui revient de la 76ème Berlinale et réfléchit avec nous sur la polémique qui a secoué le festival. On retrouve Katrie Chagnon et Alexandre David pour discuter des thèmes qui constituent le dernier numéro de Spirale consacrée aux brutalismes. Et en dernière partie d'épisode, on retrouve le journaliste Ricardo Parreira qui enquête sur l'extrême-droite en France et qui nous partage ses réflexions suite à la mort du militant néo-nazie Quentin Deranque.
On retrouve Helen Faradji qui revient de la 76ème Berlinale et réfléchit avec nous sur la polémique qui a secoué le festival. On retrouve Katrie Chagnon et Alexandre David pour discuter des thèmes qui constituent le dernier numéro de Spirale consacrée aux brutalismes. Et en dernière partie d'épisode, on retrouve le journaliste Ricardo Parreira qui enquête sur l'extrême-droite en France et qui nous partage ses réflexions suite à la mort du militant néo-nazie Quentin Deranque.
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he decided to tell the American people: You don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before,” he said.
I’m not going to fact-check the president in this episode. But I do want to ask: Even if he can’t be honest wi
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he decided to tell the American people: You don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before,” he said.
I’m not going to fact-check the president in this episode. But I do want to ask: Even if he can’t be honest with the American people, is he at least being honest with himself?
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Claire Gordon and Marie Cascione. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones & Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are leaving the chatbot era and entering the agentic era — where A.I. is capable of completing all kinds of tasks on its own, and even collaborating and communicating with other A.I.
It isn’t clear yet whether these models actually make their users meaningfully more productive. But the technology is continuing to improve; there are few signs that it is
A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are leaving the chatbot era and entering the agentic era — where A.I. is capable of completing all kinds of tasks on its own, and even collaborating and communicating with other A.I.
It isn’t clear yet whether these models actually make their users meaningfully more productive. But the technology is continuing to improve; there are few signs that it is close to plateauing. So what might this new era mean for our economy, our labor market and our kids?
Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind Claude and Claude Code. His newsletter, Import AI, has been one of my go-to reads to track the capabilities of different models over the years. In this conversation, I ask him to share how he sees this moment — how the technology is changing, whether it is leading to meaningful changes in how we work and think, and how policy needs to or can change in response to any job displacement on the horizon.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
En compagnie du chercheur Philippe Beaudoin, on discute du troublant essai L'humanité artificielle: Quand l'IA nous réinvente, qui renaît ? avec son auteur, le professeur Ollivier Dyens. L'illustration de la vignette est une conception de Evan Dalen (https://www.stocksy.com)
It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have been fewer leaks. But after the attack on Venezuela and the administration’s actions in Minneapolis, I’ve found myself wondering: How exactly is Trump making decisions? Who is he listening to? How does this White House work?
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer cover the Trump administration for The Atlantic and have written a series of big profiles o
It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have been fewer leaks. But after the attack on Venezuela and the administration’s actions in Minneapolis, I’ve found myself wondering: How exactly is Trump making decisions? Who is he listening to? How does this White House work?
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer cover the Trump administration for The Atlantic and have written a series of big profiles on key figures in this administration. Parker previously won three Pulitzer Prizes for her reporting at The Washington Post.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Aman Sahota and Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans cet épisode, on reçoit Marie-Élaine Guay et Philippe Cigna de la balado Le temps des Monstres. On discute de la présence des idées de gauche dans les médias et sur les réseaux sociaux. À la lumière des dernières polémiques qui agitent les réseaux sociaux, on se questionne sur comment assurer une présence et perdurer sans vendre son âme et en préservant sa santé mentale. Une discussion riche et pertinent en cette ère où les monstres se révèlent sans aucun complexe.
Dans cet épisode, on reçoit Marie-Élaine Guay et Philippe Cigna de la balado Le temps des Monstres. On discute de la présence des idées de gauche dans les médias et sur les réseaux sociaux. À la lumière des dernières polémiques qui agitent les réseaux sociaux, on se questionne sur comment assurer une présence et perdurer sans vendre son âme et en préservant sa santé mentale.
Une discussion riche et pertinent en cette ère où les monstres se révèlent sans aucun complexe.
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was redacted and millions more pages have been withheld. There is a lot we want to know that remains unclear.But what has come into clear view is the role Epstein played as a broker of information, connections, wealth and women and girls for a slice of the global elite. This was the infrastructure of Eps
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was redacted and millions more pages have been withheld. There is a lot we want to know that remains unclear.
But what has come into clear view is the role Epstein played as a broker of information, connections, wealth and women and girls for a slice of the global elite. This was the infrastructure of Epstein’s power — and it reveals much about the infrastructure of elite networks more generally.
Back in November, after the release of an earlier batch of Epstein files, Giridharadas wrote a great Times Opinion guest essay, taking a sociologist’s lens to the messages Epstein exchanged with his elite friends. So after the government released this latest, enormous tranche of materials, I wanted to talk to Giridharadas to help make sense of it. What do they reveal — about how Epstein operated in the world, the vulnerabilities he exploited and what that says about how power works in America today?
Note: This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, Feb. 10. On Thursday, Feb. 12, Kathryn Ruemmler announced she would be resigning from her role as chief legal officer and general counsel at Goldman Sachs.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker and Aman Sahota. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind of guru of kindness, thanks to a viral commencement speech he gave back in 2013. We talked about kindness on the show before.But with the publication of his new novel, “Vigil,” I noticed that something about Saunders seemed to have shifted. He was pushing back against that public persona, and wrestl
George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”
Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind of guru of kindness, thanks to a viral commencement speech he gave back in 2013. We talked about kindness on the show before.
But with the publication of his new novel, “Vigil,” I noticed that something about Saunders seemed to have shifted. He was pushing back against that public persona, and wrestling with darker themes.
“Vigil” follows an oil tycoon who, on his deathbed, is visited by angels and people from his past asking him to reassess his life. And you can feel a tension in that book that is also very alive in Saunders himself — between recognizing how much of our lives are conditioned by our circumstances and the need to pass judgment to reckon with the truth.
In this conversation, I discuss that tension with Saunders. I ask him about his relationship not just to kindness but also to anger; how he defines sin; whether he believes in free will; and what he thinks lies beyond kindness.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota, Efim Shapiro and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Aman Sahota and Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Dans ce 18ème épisode, Godefroy Laurendeau qui poursuit sa réflexion sur notre rapport collectif à l’énergie et sur la transition énergétique qui au Québec (comme ailleurs dans le monde) a de l’eau dans le gaz (naturel récupérable). Et en édito, Fred revient sur le beau portrait de Louis Sarkozy que nous a offert la Presse et sur le bothsidisme entendu à la radio publique sur la possible fermeture de la fonderie Horne.
Dans ce 18ème épisode, Godefroy Laurendeau qui poursuit sa réflexion sur notre rapport collectif à l’énergie et sur la transition énergétique qui au Québec (comme ailleurs dans le monde) a de l’eau dans le gaz (naturel récupérable).
Et en édito, Fred revient sur le beau portrait de Louis Sarkozy que nous a offert la Presse et sur le bothsidisme entendu à la radio publique sur la possible fermeture de la fonderie Horne.
Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so twisted? And what exactly is wrong here? What kinds of policies could actually make our digital lives meaningfully better?Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu have two different theories of the case, which I thought would be interesting to put in conversation together. Doctorow is a science fiction writer, an act
Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.
What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so twisted? And what exactly is wrong here? What kinds of policies could actually make our digital lives meaningfully better?
Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu have two different theories of the case, which I thought would be interesting to put in conversation together. Doctorow is a science fiction writer, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.” Wu is a law professor who worked on technology policy in the Biden White House; his latest book is “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.”
In this conversation, we discuss their different frameworks, and how they connect to all kinds of issues that plague the modern internet: the feeling that we’re being manipulated; the deranging of our politics; the squeezing of small businesses and creators; the deluge of spam and fraud; the constant surveillance and privacy risks; the quiet rise of algorithmic pricing; and the dehumanization of work. And they lay out the policies that they think would go furthest in making all these different aspects of our digital lives better.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Will Peischel. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Michelle Harris, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Natasha Scott.
My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningful.I think a lot of us wish we had better social lives and a stronger feeling of community around us. But it’s hard. We’re busy, we’re tired, and social planning and hosting can feel like just more work. So I asked Priya Parker on the show to help.Parker is the author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters” and a wonderful Substack,
My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningful.
I think a lot of us wish we had better social lives and a stronger feeling of community around us. But it’s hard. We’re busy, we’re tired, and social planning and hosting can feel like just more work. So I asked Priya Parker on the show to help.
Parker is the author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters” and a wonderful Substack, Group Life. She’s also a conflict resolution facilitator. And she just thinks about gathering and hosting in a different way from anyone else I’ve ever met. For her, it’s about more than just throwing a great dinner party; it’s about how we build community across differences, all the way up to how gathering can help create a better politics. The way Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign thought about community and built community among its volunteers was partly based on her work and advice.
This episode is a bit of a break from politics — but also not. Because pulling the people we love closer and spending more time together rather than alone are as essential as any political or civic discipline could be right now.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Cet épisode souligne notre 12e collaboration mensuelle avec Nicolas-Loïc Fortin du balado Polysécure. En plus, c'est son 700e épisode. Oui, après le Big Pharma, il y a le Big Podcast de Cybersécurité. On commence par discuter de Grok, l'IA générative intégrée à la plateforme X d'Elon Musk, qui génère des images d'abus sexuels de mineures de façon industrielle.On poursuit en racontant les derniers développement suivant l'extradition d'un magnat de la fraude du Cambodge vers la chine.Pour lire le
Cet épisode souligne notre 12e collaboration mensuelle avec Nicolas-Loïc Fortin du balado Polysécure. En plus, c'est son 700e épisode.
Oui, après le Big Pharma, il y a le Big Podcast de Cybersécurité.
On commence par discuter de Grok, l'IA générative intégrée à la plateforme X d'Elon Musk, qui génère des images d'abus sexuels de mineures de façon industrielle.
On poursuit en racontant les derniers développement suivant l'extradition d'un magnat de la fraude du Cambodge vers la chine.
Pour lire le texte publié sur Substack mentionné pendant l'épisode, c'est ici.
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On reçoit le sociologue Christophe Allaire Sévigny avec qui on discute de son livre percutant: Séparés mais égaux, une enquête sur la ségrégation scolaire au Québec. On termine l'épisode avec une visite au théâtre La Licorne pour une rencontre avec Steve Laplante et Catherine Léger, l’autrice de la pièce Changer de vie, présentement à l’affiche.
On termine l'épisode avec une visite au théâtre La Licorne pour une rencontre avec Steve Laplante et Catherine Léger, l’autrice de la pièce Changer de vie, présentement à l’affiche.
The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was coming to an end. Whatever people thought America was, at least for a couple of decades, it’s something else now. The killing of Alex Pretti and the fact that it was recorded on video that plainly contradicted the Trump administration’s initial narrative made that clear. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, also drove home that point when he de
The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?
I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was coming to an end. Whatever people thought America was, at least for a couple of decades, it’s something else now. The killing of Alex Pretti and the fact that it was recorded on video that plainly contradicted the Trump administration’s initial narrative made that clear. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, also drove home that point when he declared at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the world was in the midst of a “rupture.”
What do people think of America now in Europe? In China? And if American hegemony is coming to an end, what comes after that?
Adam Tooze is a historian at Columbia University and a chronicler of crises. The Guardian recently called him “the crisis whisperer.” He’s written a number of books about the times when systems fall apart and new orders emerge, including “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.” And on his Substack, Chartbook, he tracks the unfolding crises and power shifts, in particular the rise of China. He also had a front-row seat to the chaos of Davos last week, moderating a panel that included Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary.
I wanted to talk to Tooze about what he saw at the World Economic Forum, how the world’s understanding of the U.S. is changing and how he’s making sense of this moment.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.It was one of the most significant foreign policy speeches in years, sending shockwaves through the international community. He was describing a dynamic that’s been building for decades — what the scholars Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman call “weaponized interdependence” — that has now reached a tipping point.I asked Farrell on the show
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
It was one of the most significant foreign policy speeches in years, sending shockwaves through the international community. He was describing a dynamic that’s been building for decades — what the scholars Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman call “weaponized interdependence” — that has now reached a tipping point.
I asked Farrell on the show to explain this dynamic, why this is a “rupture” moment and how other countries are responding. He is an international-affairs professor at Johns Hopkins University, is an author of the book “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” and writes an excellent Substack, Programmable Mutter.
Note: This episode touches on the clashes over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and the killing of Renee Good, but it was recorded on Friday, before the killing of Alex Pretti.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker, Kate Sinclair Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker and Carole Sabouraud. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Helen Faradji nous parle (enfin) de la série Heated Rivalry et se demande si la série annonce la fin d'une certaine idée du storytelling de qualité. On retrouve l'auteur et codirecteur de LQ Nicholas Giguère qui nous présente le # 199 de la revue consacré à l'oeuvre d'Alain Farah. Et en clôture d'épisode, Fred décortique le discours de Davos de Mark Carney et démontre que l'ancien monde n'est pas encore mort, malheureusement. Crédit photo de Bonhomme: Stevens LeBlanc/JOURNAL DE QUEBEC
Helen Faradji nous parle (enfin) de la série Heated Rivalry et se demande si la série annonce la fin d'une certaine idée du storytelling de qualité. On retrouve l'auteur et codirecteur de LQ Nicholas Giguère qui nous présente le # 199 de la revue consacré à l'oeuvre d'Alain Farah. Et en clôture d'épisode, Fred décortique le discours de Davos de Mark Carney et démontre que l'ancien monde n'est pas encore mort, malheureusement.
Crédit photo de Bonhomme: Stevens LeBlanc/JOURNAL DE QUEBEC
There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration enforcement. And it’s hard to keep the scale of what the administration is building in your mind all at once. There are all the additional boots on the ground, as well as a lot of things that are less visible.I wanted to talk to someone who has followed closely how the whole immigration system is changing under President Trump. Caitlin Dickerson is a journ
There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.
Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration enforcement. And it’s hard to keep the scale of what the administration is building in your mind all at once. There are all the additional boots on the ground, as well as a lot of things that are less visible.
I wanted to talk to someone who has followed closely how the whole immigration system is changing under President Trump. Caitlin Dickerson is a journalist at The Atlantic. She’s been covering immigration closely since Trump’s first term, and she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for reporting on his family separation policy. In this conversation, we discuss what the country’s new immigration enforcement infrastructure looks like, what it is being used to do now and what it might mean for the future.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Marina King and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sarah Stillman and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.
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