The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show podcast gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media.

Elizabeth Warren: Obama was wrong. The system is more rigged than you know.

by Ezra Klein April 26

Cal Newport on taking your life back from technology

by Ezra Klein April 21

Chris Hayes on escaping the “doom loop” of Trump's presidency

by Sean Illing April 19

What Tyler Cowen thinks of pretty much everything

by Ezra Klein March 30

Yuval Harari on why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years

by Ezra Klein March 27

Denis McDonough was Obama’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2017. Here’s what he learned.

by Ezra Klein March 14

Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality

by Ezra Klein March 3

Yuval Harari, author of Sapiens, on how meditation made him a better historian

by Ezra Klein February 28

Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.

by Ezra Klein February 25

A conversation with J.D. Vance, the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism

by Ezra Klein February 2

Keith Ellison on his DNC vision, the Democrats’ down-ballot collapse, and identity politics

by Ezra Klein January 19

A law professor's warning: we are closer to oligopoly than at any point in 100 years

by Jeff Stein December 23

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I’m a big believer in chaos”

by Ezra Klein December 19

The ultimate wonk reading list: 67 books The Ezra Klein Show guests want you to read

by Jeff Stein November 25

Francis Fukuyama: America is in “one of the most severe political crises I have experienced”

by Ezra Klein October 26

At 15, Malcolm Gladwell ran a zine called Ad Hominem: “our rule was you had to attack someone personally”

by Ezra Klein October 6

Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance

by Jeff Stein September 16

Trevor Noah: a very serious conversation with a very funny man

by Ezra Klein August 8

Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way

by Ezra Klein July 20

Why this "bloody" veggie burger may become the Tesla of food

by Katie Hicks and Jeff Stein July 7

"This is the fight": Demos's Heather McGhee on the upside to Trump's racial politics

by Jeff Stein June 29

Jewish Americans are more successful than ever. Jesse Eisenberg worries something's being lost.

by Jeff Stein June 22

What feminist author Jessica Valenti wishes she could tell her 15-year-old self about sexism

by Jeff Stein June 17

Moby lived in an abandoned warehouse in his 20s. Why he worries today’s young artists can’t.

by Jeff Stein June 15

VP dark horse Tom Perez talks labor rules, minimum wage, and more on The Ezra Klein Show

by Jeff Stein June 9

Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and stopping Donald Trump

by Ezra Klein May 25

Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks

by Ezra Klein May 21

Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media

by Ezra Klein May 13

Robert Reich on backing Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and making policy viral on Facebook

by Ezra Klein May 5

Bruce Friedrich on why you shouldn't trust humane certifications on eggs

by Ezra Klein April 28

Ben Thompson on how to make it in the media in 2016

by Ezra Klein April 21

Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics

by Ezra Klein April 12

Neera Tanden on what it's like working for Hillary Clinton

by Ezra Klein April 6

David Chang on building Momofuku, raising restaurant wages, and exploring vegan cooking

by Ezra Klein March 30

Sen. Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of American politics

by Ezra Klein March 28

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor

by Ezra Klein March 17

Rachel Maddow on skinhead protests, AIDS activism, and why she skips the op-ed page

by Ezra Klein February 9

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