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The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media. These are extended conversations with policymakers, writers, technologists, a...

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The expectations on men

Sean talks with journalist Jordan Ritter Conn about his book “American Men,” an intimate look at four men trying to figure out what manhood...

49:29Jun 22, 2026

Canceling Plato

Who gets to decide what’s taught in college classrooms? And should the answer be different at private colleges than at public universities?...

40:08Jun 19, 2026

How to feel more secure

Sean talks with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine about attachment, insecurity, and why our relationships shape us more than we th...

50:06Jun 15, 2026

The people who want AI to replace us

Sean talks with writer Sigal Samuel about AI successionism, the growing movement that sees artificial intelligence as humanity’s rightful su...

49:14Jun 12, 2026

Understanding our dreams

Sean talks with dream scientist Michelle Carr about what dreams are, why we have them, and what they might reveal about the mind. They discu...

47:57Jun 8, 2026

Do we really need to work so hard?

Americans have absorbed the Protestant work ethic: the idea that our value as human beings – and our eventual salvation – is determined by h...

41:50Jun 1, 2026

The post-sex generation

Sean talks with writer Christine Emba about the strange and increasingly anti-social world young people are inheriting online. They discuss...

48:03May 29, 2026

Talk to strangers

Sean talks with University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley about the strange gap between our need to be social and how social we choo...

53:12May 25, 2026

Who needs experts?

Almost a decade ago, Tom Nichols warned that Americans were losing respect for expertise. He didn’t expect things to get this bad. Sean talk...

48:34May 22, 2026

The myth of absolute freedom

Sean talks with writer David Epstein about why unlimited freedom and endless choice often make us less creative, less focused, and less fulf...

50:00May 18, 2026

The college dream has failed

College was supposed to be a ticket to a better life. A degree meant a good job, a decent salary, and a brighter future. That promise is bre...

48:17May 15, 2026

Why progress is hard to see

If someone asked you to describe the state of the world right now, odds are you’d reach for the bad news first: political division, AI panic...

47:46May 11, 2026

The wellness path to conspiracy

Sean talks with Vox senior correspondent Anna North about the strange rise of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. They explore...

46:11May 8, 2026

The science of awe

Sean talks with psychologist Dacher Keltner about the science of awe and why it might be one of the most important emotions we have. They ex...

57:30May 4, 2026

In defense of fatherhood

Everyone says having kids changes your life. That’s true. But it’s not the whole story. Sean talks with author Derek Thompson about fatherho...

37:59May 1, 2026

The case for thinking like a child

Sean talks with psychologist Alison Gopnik about how children think, learn, experience the world, and why their minds may be more powerful t...

44:34Apr 27, 2026

The Pentagon’s AI war machine

The Pentagon has spent years building AI tools to help identify targets, speed up battlefield decisions, and make war more “efficient.” What...

48:42Apr 20, 2026

American democracy's structural flaw

Back in 2015, before President Donald Trump, before January 6, before all the craziness of the last decade, Matt Yglesias made a blunt predi...

38:41Apr 17, 2026

The contradictions of wokeness

What does it mean to be “woke”? It's become a catch-all term to smear or dismiss anything that has any vague association with progressive po...

53:20Apr 13, 2026