Hello everyone,
\n\nThe mod team is in the process of preparing this year’s subreddit census that will run from Nov 1st to the end of the year.
\n\nWe have some of the feedback from last year that are plan on implementing.
\n\nWe wanted to ask the community if they had any questions they wanted to include this year.
\n\nSome ideas we had were some specific issue based questions like data center approvals, or a way too early 2028 presidential primary candidate support.
\n\nSo please let us know.
\n\nHere is a link to last years results:
\n\n\n⬆️ 10 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":32,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1xbjza1","title":"AI Is Smarter Than Ever. So Where’s the Revolution? - Plain English with Derek Thompson","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1xbjza1/ai_is_smarter_than_ever_so_wheres_the_revolution/","author":"CII_Guy","published_at":"2026-10-21T10:55:39+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2hKWPn8scqBy45xWWvIDWR?si=fZUhlCykQ3eK491xKcqdMw
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 11 points | 💬 5 comments
","metadata":{"score":17,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1xbau27","title":"Follow-up on Paul Kedrosky's commentary of Anthropic S-1","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1xbau27/followup_on_paul_kedroskys_commentary_of/","author":"MikeDamone","published_at":"2026-10-21T02:06:06+00:00","content":"\n\n\nIn last week's AI bubble debate episode, Kedrosky laid out his argument that Anthropic and OpenAI are massively exposed to customer concentration risk with such a significant proportion of their revenue only coming from a handful of buyers. Azhar then responded with the following:
\n\n\n\n\nThe beauty of what Paul has just said, which is: Eight customers, 80 percent of the business — that’s 10 percent per customer. That would have to be disclosed in the S-1. So we have, actually, a very, very falsifiable prediction that we will be able to check when the S-1 comes out, if Anthropic does successfully go public. And then we’ll know: Was it really eight companies representing 80 percent of the business? And that’s really helpful, because if Paul’s right, that’s a bit exotic. It’s a bit spicy.
\n
Well, it didn't take long for us to get an answer. Anthropic just filed their draft S-1 today, and while the big headline is the massive $80B loss they took in the first half of the fiscal year, it was also reported that they do in fact suffer from huge customer concentration risk.
\n\n\n\n\nAnthropic’s revenue growth is closely tied to a few big customers. The firm said around one-fifth of its $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 came from just two customers.
\n
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-revenue-growth-ipo-accaf0f1
\n\nI was already pretty firmly on Kedrosky's side of this debate, and the disclosures we're about to see as Anthropic and OpenAI approach their IPOs are offering staggering evidence of just how obscene this bubble is.
\n⬆️ 23 points | 💬 15 comments
","metadata":{"score":39,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1xan9vn","title":"Why You Can’t Capitulate to Trump","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1xan9vn/why_you_cant_capitulate_to_trump/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-20T09:12:13+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-chrystia-freeland.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 1 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":62,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1xa9uu4","title":"What do you think about the concept of \"Big-Ass Truck Abundance?\".","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1xa9uu4/what_do_you_think_about_the_concept_of_bigass/","author":"tuck5903","published_at":"2026-10-19T21:35:43+00:00","content":"\n\n\nI just ran across a Yglesias piece from last year that argues that Abundance has been tilted towards addressing issues that progressives in safe blue areas value- the ability to build dense housing and transit, inequality, and climate/clean energy. It's paywalled, but the main thrust revolves around a passage from a Ruben Gallego interview shortly after the 2024 election that went semi-viral:
\n\n\"It was a joke, but I said a lot when I was talking to Latino men: “I’m going to make sure you get out of your mom’s house, get your troquita.” For English speakers, that means your truck. Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck, which, nothing wrong with that. “And you’re gonna go start your own job, and you’re gonna become rich, right?” These are the conversations that we should be having. We’re afraid of saying, like, “Hey, let’s help you get a job so you can become rich.” We use terms like “bring more economic stability.” These guys don’t want that. They don’t want “economic stability.” They want to really live the American dream.\"
\n\nAs Yglesias puts it, this is a vision of Abundance that is about \"raising absolute living standards\" as voters that Democrats don't reliably win conceive of them - or to use another direct quote: \"Des Moines doesn’t need a better subway\".
\n\nPersonally, I'm not Latino but I have spent most of my life living in rural and suburban areas, and working around the types of people Gallego was talking about. I could probably count on one hand the amount of times I heard any of those folks say they wish they could take a train somewhere or buy a condo in a multiunit building downtown. But buying that new F150 with a big RV to pull behind it, or moving out of their apartment into a SFH in the suburbs are extremely common aspirations for a huge swath of Americans. What's the answer for Abundance proponents? Should we cater to what people already want to win support, or try to persuade them that they should reframe what they consider an improvement in their standard of living/the American Dream?
\n⬆️ 20 points | 💬 41 comments
","metadata":{"score":33,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1xa760v","title":"Don’t get complacent but also don’t doom - Slow Boring","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1xa760v/dont_get_complacent_but_also_dont_doom_slow_boring/","author":"SomethingNew65","published_at":"2026-10-19T19:53:57+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/dont-get-complacent-but-also-dont
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 9 comments
","metadata":{"score":15,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x90rrx","title":"Why does social liberalism seem to stop at AI?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x90rrx/why_does_social_liberalism_seem_to_stop_at_ai/","author":"simmol","published_at":"2026-10-18T11:20:10+00:00","content":"\n\n\nSo I recently listened to Ezra's conversation with Sherry Turkle about AI relationships and companionship. One thing that struck me was how surprisingly closed-minded Turkle seemed about the potential benefits of AI therapy and companionship. Even when Ezra brought up some interesting counterarguments (e.g. potential benefits for lonely or socially isolated older adults), I got the impression that she wasn't particularly willing to seriously entertain them. And this got me thinking about something broader.
\n\nJudging from real-life conversations as well as what I read on Reddit, it seems like many socially liberal people, who generally pride themselves on being open-minded and progressive, seem surprisingly closed-minded when it comes to AI and specifically with regards to AI in social issues (for this discussion, let's set aside economic and environmental concerns).
\n\nWhether it's AI in education, therapy, companionship, or alleviating loneliness, I often see these possibilities dismissed almost instinctively without much serious consideration.
\n\nMy suspicion is that, for many people, this opposition starts with a gut feeling that something about all of this is unnatural or wrong, and the intellectual justifications come afterward. And ironically, this reminds me of the similar kind of intuition-driven reasoning that liberals often criticize conservatives for when it comes to challenging traditional social norms.
\n\nI consider myself somewhat liberal, and I'm not even trying to argue that all these AI applications in various social settings are necessarily good ideas. Some might work, others might not. But shouldn't being open-minded mean being willing to explore these possibilities rather than dismissing them outright simply because they challenge our existing notions of how things should work? Or am I just strawmanning a position that relatively few socially liberal people actually hold?
\n\nI find it strange that some people who are otherwise so willing to challenge traditional social norms seem to draw such a firm line when AI enters the picture.
\n\nThoughts?
\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 99 comments
","metadata":{"score":31,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x8zn47","title":"Would You Press This Button?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x8zn47/would_you_press_this_button/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-18T10:12:29+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opinion/ai-bubble-catastrophe-investors-control.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 13 points | 💬 31 comments
","metadata":{"score":17,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x7yah6","title":"Podcast editing","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x7yah6/podcast_editing/","author":"yetrident","published_at":"2026-10-17T01:59:07+00:00","content":"\n\n\nWhat’s the deal with all the skips and short audio repeats throughout the episode?
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x7k2t8","title":"How Abundance Has Failed and Succeeded — Plain English with Derek Thompson","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x7k2t8/how_abundance_has_failed_and_succeeded_plain/","author":"Pumpkin-Addition-83","published_at":"2026-10-16T15:59:53+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://overcast.fm/+AA1Lec72SOw
\n\n\n\nFrom Derek’s into: “This is the paradox — at the very moment that the political commentators are writing obituaries for Abundance, lawmakers across the country are passing some of the most significant Abundance-style reforms in decades”
\n⬆️ 27 points | 💬 12 comments
","metadata":{"score":51,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x7be28","title":"Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x7be28/is_there_an_ai_bubble_a_debate/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-16T09:12:35+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-azeem-azhar-paul-kedrosky.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 11 points | 💬 37 comments
","metadata":{"score":42,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x6qifa","title":"Interesting Times NYT AI","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x6qifa/interesting_times_nyt_ai/","author":"Character_Public3465","published_at":"2026-10-15T16:35:03+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSorry for another ai adjacent podcast ,
\nBut dwarkesh and Tyler on interesting times
⬆️ 6 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":14,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x6n8o7","title":"Open letter to Ezra","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x6n8o7/open_letter_to_ezra/","author":"Primary-Abies9041","published_at":"2026-10-15T14:32:35+00:00","content":"\n\n\nPlease stop doing AI episodes
\nIf you did this many episodes on literally anything else we’d be sick of it too
⬆️ 57 points | 💬 80 comments
","metadata":{"score":115,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x6luq0","title":"The Argument: Cancel Columbus, Save Jefferson?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x6luq0/the_argument_cancel_columbus_save_jefferson/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-10-15T13:36:47+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nJerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias debate which historical figures deserve to be canceled and which shouldn’t have been. With the Trump administration pushing to restore statues of figures removed during the “Great Wokening,” they ask what a statue, a holiday, or a name on a school is actually for. Jerusalem lays out her test: why we honor someone and whether their cruelty is the main thing they’re remembered for. Matt argues the bigger problem is that we undercommemorate people, and that we should want more statues, not fewer.
\n\nPlus, a peer review on whether machine learning can predict who will be shot, and how much power the government should have to use that data.
\n⬆️ 11 points | 💬 10 comments
","metadata":{"score":20,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x5v4si","title":"Arvind Narayanan on His Recent Ezra Klein Show Appearance","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x5v4si/arvind_narayanan_on_his_recent_ezra_klein_show/","author":"volumeofatorus","published_at":"2026-10-14T16:02:11+00:00","content":"\n\n\nhttps://x.com/random_walker/status/2110010174890967374
\n\nI recall the reaction here to the \"AI as Normal Technology\" episode was mixed, so I think Narayanan's summary of the points he was making is helpful. He also notes that the producers told him multiple times to use less technical language, which is interesting because I recall many posters here saying he sounded like he was out of his depth, but that was a choice by the producers rather than a reflection on his technical knowledge.
\n\n\n\n\nTalking about a specialized topic on a podcast that has a big and broad audience is a balancing act. The producers stopped me many times during the interview to tell me I was being too technical (understandable!). I tried to be nuanced but this conversation is necessarily a distilled version of the arguments [Sayesh Kapoor] and I have made in our essays... which are themselves written for a somewhat broad audience and hence distilled in complexity from our notes and 1-1 discussions with peers.
\n
(Full tweet below in a reply)
\n⬆️ 37 points | 💬 8 comments
","metadata":{"score":61,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x5mesx","title":"Is It Wrong to Love a Chatbot?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x5mesx/is_it_wrong_to_love_a_chatbot/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-14T09:07:19+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sherry-turkle.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 11 points | 💬 81 comments
","metadata":{"score":43,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x4z5yh","title":"Bloomberg Odd Lots: Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x4z5yh/bloomberg_odd_lots_nate_soares_on_how_ai_really/","author":"StarbeamII","published_at":"2026-10-13T15:07:59+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosting this here as it's relevant to all the AI-related interviews Ezra has done lately.
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x4vsyw","title":"What if Political Polarization Is Not the Disease but the Cure?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x4vsyw/what_if_political_polarization_is_not_the_disease/","author":"brianscalabrainey","published_at":"2026-10-13T12:52:25+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/opinion/trump-democracy-political-polarization.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 10 points | 💬 25 comments
","metadata":{"score":21,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x4tyy1","title":"Plain English: America’s Crisis of Social Connection, With Adam Grant","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x4tyy1/plain_english_americas_crisis_of_social/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-10-13T11:20:31+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nAmericans spend more time alone than ever, as parties, nights out with friends, and dinner gatherings become less common. Cellphones, social media, TV, and the internet have made it easier than ever to fill our free time without other people.
\n\nResearch suggests friendship is less about instant chemistry than repeated time together. It takes roughly 50 hours to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend and more than 200 to build a close one. School makes those hours easy to accumulate but adult life doesn’t.
\n\nToday, Derek talks with psychologist Adam Grant, author of Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World, about what we misunderstand about chemistry and closeness and how we might get people to start hosting a damn dinner party again.
\n\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel here:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@PlainEnglishwithDerekThompson
If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com.
\n\nHost: Derek Thompson
\nGuest: Adam Grant
⬆️ 7 points | 💬 11 comments
","metadata":{"score":26,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x3yh2k","title":"Trump, Xi, and the race for superintelligence - The Argument Podcast (Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas)","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x3yh2k/trump_xi_and_the_race_for_superintelligence_the/","author":"CII_Guy","published_at":"2026-10-12T10:37:49+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4D20xNTIvohRfkcXAMmkkQ?si=3a6cdbee321b4212
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 2 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":7,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x3gv6g","title":"The Kleins - School Choice","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x3gv6g/the_kleins_school_choice/","author":"Hank-Chinaski80","published_at":"2026-10-11T19:18:23+00:00","content":"\n\n\nThis is a good faith question, because I'm a big fan of Ezra Klein and his wife. I think they do great work. I just want to get some clarity on whether people think I'm crazy or not.
\n\nIt seems like liberal activists, or people of a left persuasion in general, tend to live in wealthier enclaves, which is fine. You make good money. But they often send their kids to private schools. And in the rare case they send their kids to public school, the kids are usually in the honors or gifted and talented program.
\n\nI say this as a very progressive person. My wife is a public school teacher, and I've always been a big fan of public schools. My daughter had perfect grades and volunteered, but she didn't get into the honors track. So now she's in classes with more disruptive kids and higher rates of violence. Her school is the 21st most violent middle school in all of New Jersey.
\nSo my opinion has shifted a bit. But I can't afford private school, so I'm kind of in a pickle.
I see the same thing at the political level. I live in NJ-11, and I met my congresswoman, Analilia Mejia (http://mejia.house.gov/), this week. She was very nice. She has a labor background and was Bernie Sanders' political director, and she talks a lot about equity. But I couldn't help noticing that the town she lives in has some of the highest property taxes in New Jersey. It's the kind of town people move to for the schools, because the public schools there are basically private schools.
\n\nI'm wondering what Ezra and his wife think about public versus private school, and where they send their kids. Would they send them to a school like the one my daughter goes to? Again, this is in good faith. I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely curious whether anyone else has noticed this trend, and whether anyone else is in the same pickle.
\n\nAgain, I’m not being a troll. I just noticed this behavior.
\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 69 comments
","metadata":{"score":32,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x1mnj1","title":"Plain English: Russia’s Plague Mystery and the Coming Age of Bioweapons","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x1mnj1/plain_english_russias_plague_mystery_and_the/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-10-09T14:20:34+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nAI apocalypse, recession fears, sky-high mortgage rates, and now, the plague? Last week, a researcher at a plague institute in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, sparking rumors of biowarfare and fears of a new epidemic. How much of the story is fact vs. fiction, and what does it tell us about the growing threat of biological weapons?
\n\nToday, Derek is joined by physician and former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha to make sense of the story. They discuss what’s really happening in Russia, the current state of bioweapons research around the world, how AI could make biological weapons more accessible, and what families, governments, and societies can do to prepare.
\n\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel here:
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@PlainEnglishwithDerekThompson
\n\nIf you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com.
\n\nHost: Derek Thompson
\n\nGuest: Ashish Jha
\n\nProducer: Devon Baroldi
\n\nAdditional Production Support: Ben Glicksman
\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":22,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1x1go27","title":"What if A.I. Is Just a ‘Normal Technology’?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1x1go27/what_if_ai_is_just_a_normal_technology/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-09T09:17:18+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-arvind-narayanan.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 30 points | 💬 58 comments
","metadata":{"score":76,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wzyqui","title":"How is the podcast not even eligible for golden globe nod?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wzyqui/how_is_the_podcast_not_even_eligible_for_golden/","author":"ChrisJones95","published_at":"2026-10-07T14:59:08+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://goldenglobes.com/articles/best-podcasts-eligible-for-the-84th-golden-globes-revealed/
\n\n\n\nThis is the list:
\n\nBad Friends
\n\nBehind the Bastards
\n\nCall Her Daddy
\n\nConan O'Brien Needs A Friend
\n\nCrime Junkie
\n\nDateline NBC
\n\nGood Hang with Amy Poehler
\n\nLas Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
\n\nLove Trapped
\n\nMatt and Shane's Secret Podcast
\n\nMorbid
\n\nMrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
\n\nMy Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
\n\nNew Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
\n\nPardon My Take
\n\nPod Save America
\n\nRevisionist History
\n\nRotten Mango
\n\nSmartLess
\n\nStuff You Should Know
\n\nThe Bill Simmons Podcast
\n\nThe Daily
\n\nThe Joe Rogan Experience
\n\nThe Megyn Kelly Show
\n\nThe Mel Robbins Podcast
\n\nThe Shawn Ryan Show
\n\nThe Toast
\n\nThe Tucker Carlson Show
\n\nThis American Life
\n\nThis Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
\n\nAm I going crazy ???
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 4 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wzrx82","title":"‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wzrx82/this_is_nuts_an_openai_insider_explains_why_he/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-07T09:17:43+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-robinson.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 38 points | 💬 111 comments
","metadata":{"score":81,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wzclzu","title":"The permitting deal is good and should pass - Matt Yglesias","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wzclzu/the_permitting_deal_is_good_and_should_pass_matt/","author":"runningblack","published_at":"2026-10-06T19:59:42+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/the-permitting-deal-is-good-and-should
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 49 points | 💬 16 comments
","metadata":{"score":65,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wyoev0","title":"Other Books like Abundance ???","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wyoev0/other_books_like_abundance/","author":"Chrishp7878","published_at":"2026-10-06T00:07:33+00:00","content":"\n\n\nI am about to finish Abundance. While I don’t agree with everything, I definitely found it thought-provoking. I appreciate all the effort that went into that research.
\n\nI am interested in finding other books that tackle the same issue: how to create a richer and healthier society for all of us. What are your recommendation?
\n⬆️ 2 points | 💬 6 comments
","metadata":{"score":14,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wydzw9","title":"An ‘abundance'-inspired caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda - Politico","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wydzw9/an_abundanceinspired_caucus_rolls_out_a/","author":"SomethingNew65","published_at":"2026-10-05T17:03:58+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnergized by progress on permitting and housing legislation this term, an “abundance”-inspired caucus is rolling out a detailed agenda for next term.
\n\nReps. Josh Harder(D-Calif.) and Celeste Maloy(R-Utah) launched the bipartisan Build America Caucus in 2025 with the goal of cutting red tape to build “faster, better, and cheaper,” specifically in housing and energy permitting. Congress overwhelmingly passed a sweeping housing affordability package in June, and senators announced a bipartisan permitting deal last week.
\n\n“It’s clear that this has become — even beyond our caucus — a real governing philosophy, uniting factions across both parties all over the country,” Harder said in a Wednesday interview.
\n\nNow the approximately 40-member caucus is rolling out a 95-page package of proposals, first shared with POLITICO, that outlines abundance-oriented proposals touching on health care, transportation, child care and research. On artificial intelligence, for example, the agenda proposes standardizing federal data sets in a format that is ready for AI-driven analysis.
\n\nWhether the caucus will actually lead on legislation next term remains to be seen. Control of the House is still weeks from being determined in the midterms, but a wide-ranging bipartisan agenda is a rarity on an increasingly polarized Capitol Hill.
\n\nThe caucus is split evenly between Democratic and Republican members, who are primarily but not exclusively moderates. Maloy explained in a Thursday interview that the caucus is releasing its agenda before the midterm results are known to ensure that neither party sought an upper hand during negotiations.
\n\nLiberal New York Times commentator Ezra Klein and Atlantic writer Derek Thompson proposed the “abundance” philosophy as a response to Democratic Party’s 2024 political woes. While it has faced some criticism from progressives and labor groups, the call to cut red tape has picked up momentum with several high-profile politicians, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a left-wing Democrat, and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a GOP moderate.
\n\nMaloy said she sees a role for the approach to governing in Republican politics, too.
\n\n“I just think we need to get out of the mindset that all of the good ideas have already happened, and now we’re just fighting over the crumbs,” Maloy said. “I know ‘abundance’ is kind of a buzzword right now, but I do think we need to have an abundance mindset. I mean, in the United States, that’s how we always solve problems. We think big.”
\n
What do you think about these proposals? What would Ezra Klein think about these proposals? Will any of these proposals become law? Exactly how influential is that abundance book going to turn out to be?
\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 20 comments
","metadata":{"score":26,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wxyt7p","title":"What do people here make of the left-wing arguments over new permitting bill?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wxyt7p/what_do_people_here_make_of_the_leftwing/","author":"Sama5aurus","published_at":"2026-10-05T03:52:41+00:00","content":"\n\n\nFor anyone who hasn't been following it, BAAJA is the new bipartisan Senate permitting deal. Broadly, it speeds up environmental review and legal challenges, makes permits harder to revoke, and includes major transmission/grid reforms.
\n\nSeems very relevant to the abundance argument: making it easier to build transmission and clean energy also means making it easier to build pipelines, mines and other stuff the left may not want.
\n\nI imagine support here will probably be pretty one-sided, but I'm interested in the arguments against it too. Curious whether people see BAAJA as a good example of the “groups” problem, or a case where that critique is too simplistic.
\n\nAlso didn’t fully understand this part, but it seems like the bill is almost trying to use government power to force utilities to modernise when their profit incentives push them toward the status quo
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","metadata":{"score":15,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wxvyjc","title":"Who lost Afghanistan?- MY","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wxvyjc/who_lost_afghanistan_my/","author":"glazed_emerald","published_at":"2026-10-05T01:21:11+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/who-lost-afghanistan?r=4gi50d&utm_medium=ios
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 5 points | 💬 7 comments
","metadata":{"score":10,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wxehkg","title":"The Cure for Loneliness May Lie in a Suburban Duplex","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wxehkg/the_cure_for_loneliness_may_lie_in_a_suburban/","author":"Snoo-93317","published_at":"2026-10-04T12:27:03+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nRelevance: Ezra often discusses how impordent houssing is. This article is about a particular form of high density houssing that may also help ameliorate Americans' social atomization.
\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 7 comments
","metadata":{"score":33,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wx9bm5","title":"Forget about \"polarization\"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wx9bm5/forget_about_polarization_the_real_problem_with/","author":"dylanah","published_at":"2026-10-04T07:10:18+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 9 points | 💬 5 comments
","metadata":{"score":9,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wwo99s","title":"Plain English - Why the Midterms Suddenly Look So Bad for Republicans.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wwo99s/plain_english_why_the_midterms_suddenly_look_so/","author":"tuck5903","published_at":"2026-10-03T14:12:37+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/id1594471023?i=1000792735766
\n\n\n\nNate Silver joins DT to analyze the state of the midterm races, and why it’s looking like Dems may have the edge in several tough races. The most interesting point I heard was DT bringing up the idea that Democrats perceived “lack of a party identity” that hurt them in 2024 is actually an advantage in off year elections. Without a kingmaker like Trump, the party has been able to run different types of candidates in different states without having to conform to what any one person wants.
\n\nPersonally, I think the only reason Democrats have a chance of retaking the Senate right now is because the GOP ran a bunch of absolutely atrocious MAGA candidates like Walker and Lake in winnable races over the last few years. In contrast, I think all the Democratic Senate candidates in swing states this year range from excellent (Talarico, Cooper, Ossoff), to decent (Jackson). There’s nobody who seems likely to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in a very favorable environment. I also think there’s something to the theory that the Democratic base shifting to higher education voters correlates with the type of people who turn out at higher rates in off year elections.
\n⬆️ 21 points | 💬 6 comments
","metadata":{"score":52,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wvzxd6","title":"I interviewed Ezra's wife Annie Lowrey on my podcast","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wvzxd6/i_interviewed_ezras_wife_annie_lowrey_on_my/","author":"AndreskXurenejaud","published_at":"2026-10-02T17:34:15+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/6SSLpDiVU6crfkvjNsDQv2?si=f_uUm1MqQdiTvK2CO0Ci7Q
\n\n\n\nHope you all enjoy! Here are some highlights:
\n\n⬆️ 28 points | 💬 2 comments
","metadata":{"score":62,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wvp5pk","title":"Is the World Getting Uglier?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wvp5pk/is_the_world_getting_uglier/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-10-02T09:17:26+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-debbie-millman.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 22 points | 💬 29 comments
","metadata":{"score":53,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wv6txn","title":"Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wv6txn/why_americans_stopped_throwing_dinner_parties/","author":"ThatsHisLawyerJerome","published_at":"2026-10-01T18:13:13+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/americans-socialization-dinner-decline-hosting/688846/
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 27 points | 💬 71 comments
","metadata":{"score":79,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wv41wh","title":"What the hell is going on in Europe?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wv41wh/what_the_hell_is_going_on_in_europe/","author":"downforce_dude","published_at":"2026-10-01T16:28:46+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-argument/id1842716928?i=1000792524391
\n\n\n\nHow can Europe's liberals stop the far-right? Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas debate the far right's rise in Germany, France, and beyond, and whether Europe's mainstream parties mishandled immigration and opened the door for the AfD and Marine Le Pen. They get into what Sweden and Denmark got right on integration, why deportations and asylum deterrence are so hard, whether liberals should ever govern with the far right, and why Europe's strange aversion to air conditioning is a gift to populists.
\nPlus a peer review on whether having more kids pushes mothers into remote work.
⬆️ 10 points | 💬 16 comments
","metadata":{"score":49,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wtrit4","title":"Bill Gates is the 21st century’s Bartolomé de las Casas; morally sound, but fundamentally unaware of the consequences his project will yield.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wtrit4/bill_gates_is_the_21st_centurys_bartolomé_de_las/","author":"Accomplished_Net3714","published_at":"2026-09-30T01:01:49+00:00","content":"\n\n\nThere was a portion of the latest episode with Gates that worried me deeply, and it had to with Gates’ defense of Microsoft introducing AI to the global south (despite the fact that, as Ezra pointed out, Gates is extremely skeptical of AI’s effects on the west).
\n\nGates is firmly aware of the potential job loss and unrest that the AI industry will unleash upon societies that look similar to the ones he himself grew up in. However, he clings to this notion that if this technology was brought to the impoverished parts of the world, it would do nothing but good.
\n\nIt reminded me of the Christian missionary Bartolome De Las Casas. For those who aren’t aware, De Las Casas accompanied Columbus on his voyages to the “New World.” He is perhaps are most trusted source when it comes to describing the atrocities to the Indigenous that were brought upon by Columbus and his men.
\n\nAnd yet, despite what he sees, De Las Casas clings to a singular moral position: the prospect of salvation. Does he despise the genocide and mass death in front of him? Of course. Yet, he also believes the following: all could be put right, simply if we point these unknown people to the Word of God.
\n\nFor De Las Casas, atrocity could (potentially) be justified if the European colonizers pursued a full-fledged policy of Christianization. After all, civilizational destruction is a small price to pay for the prospect of mass salvation.
\n\nBelieve me, I’m not saying that Gates is one of these AI industry insiders that has (purportedly) begun to view LLM’s in a religious, messianic light. However, I do find his rhetoric on this issue extremely similar to how Christian’s justified colonial expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries.
\n\nThe monarchs of Europe took on great cost when it came to colonial efforts, and they did not do so because they believed it would enrich their people—they did it to enrich themselves. The cloak of religious salvation was simply a tool to justify their actions.
\n\nThe cognitive dissonance that Gates’ displays here is alarming. He positions himself to be the the most morally sound of actors in the AI industry—quite similarly to how De Las Casas positioned himself to be the most morally sound of Spanish Colonizers—yet he openly states that while AI could potentially destroy the fabric of the west, it will simultaneously spur growth and progress in the most inequitable regions of the world.
\n\nFolks, we need to turn this off.
\n⬆️ 4 points | 💬 12 comments
","metadata":{"score":4,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wt5d2f","title":"Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wt5d2f/bill_gatess_blunt_warning_on_ai/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-09-29T09:17:23+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-bill-gates.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 5 points | 💬 13 comments
","metadata":{"score":143,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wsq5p1","title":"Is Abundance aligned with Urbanism or opposed to it?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wsq5p1/is_abundance_aligned_with_urbanism_or_opposed_to/","author":"jfanch42","published_at":"2026-09-28T20:37:30+00:00","content":"\n\n\nOk, so there is a thing I am genuinely confused about. I read the book a while ago and have been following the broader “Yimby” discourse for a long time. And I thought it was thing but it seems like there are actually sort of two different ideas here that may support a lot of the same reforms on paper but are actually kind of diametrically opposed.
\n\nSo the whole thing as it was pitched to me, as I understood it, was that Abundance was not just a sort of growth for growth sakes pursuit. That it was a pursuit of some specific higher ideal. That it was a return to the sort of utopian ambition of the mid century modernism of the past. On a practical level the idea was that the modern sort of controlled artificially constrained zoning regime was a problem. On the other side was something like a beautiful garden of density and mixed use urban life.
\n\nBut it seems like there is also this other thing that is also antagonistic to the current regulation regime. But it doesn’t like hate the mcmansion strip mall ideal, it venerates it . It wants to supercharge it, spreading vast suburban sprawl as far as the eye can see. In this model the liberated organic built world isn't a garden but rather a jungle. They seem to view the other ideal as sentimental and even an impediment to the project.
\n\nSo which is it?
\n⬆️ 3 points | 💬 25 comments
","metadata":{"score":11,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wsg7lx","title":"Feed the Lizard - Slow Boring","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wsg7lx/feed_the_lizard_slow_boring/","author":"mcsul","published_at":"2026-09-28T14:31:23+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/feed-the-lizard
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 21 points | 💬 111 comments
","metadata":{"score":35,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wrlimc","title":"Matt Yglesias- The Republican urge to start wars in the Middle East.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wrlimc/matt_yglesias_the_republican_urge_to_start_wars/","author":"tuck5903","published_at":"2026-09-27T14:24:13+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/the-republican-urge-to-start-wars
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 57 points | 💬 26 comments
","metadata":{"score":107,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wr3n86","title":"After Ezra's \"pacing the frontier isn't enough\" column, I made a quiz that maps where people land on AI","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wr3n86/after_ezras_pacing_the_frontier_isnt_enough/","author":"soldieroftok","published_at":"2026-09-26T22:35:09+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nEzra's Sept. 20 column argued that \"pacing the frontier isn't enough\" and that labs should be stopped from having AI build the next generation of AI. Whatever you think of that, the politics around it don't sort neatly into left and right. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both back pausing new AI data centers but want opposite things on China, and some of the sharpest AI skeptics want the companies reined in as hard as the people most worried about extinction do.
\n\nSo I made a quiz that tries to map it. It scores you on how big a deal AI is, how hard to rein in the companies, and whether to race China or make a deal (plus a few other scales), gives you one of eight types, and shows which of 22 public figures you're closest to.
\n\nEzra is on the map. I placed him near the corner the quiz calls \"Hit the Brakes\" and right next to \"Global Rulebook,\" since he frames loss of control as something the US and China should be able to agree to prevent. I'm curious whether people here think that's the right read, and where you land relative to him.
\n\nThe public figure placements are best guesses from what people have said publicly, so corrections are welcome. Hope this is fun/helpful for folks!
\n⬆️ 28 points | 💬 11 comments
","metadata":{"score":73,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wq0zgm","title":"The Single Smartest Case Against AI Doom - Plain English with Derek Thompson","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wq0zgm/the_single_smartest_case_against_ai_doom_plain/","author":"CII_Guy","published_at":"2026-09-25T16:32:12+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/1Q3ZSJItHf8BJrHa7HtjOP?si=6vJzXv3ES42hPx-sKSL3qQ
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 19 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":44,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wprg3s","title":"What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wprg3s/what_does_abdul_elsayed_believe/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-09-25T09:07:40+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-abdul-el-sayed.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 24 points | 💬 56 comments
","metadata":{"score":67,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wp6qcx","title":"How worried should we be about AI?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wp6qcx/how_worried_should_we_be_about_ai/","author":"topicality","published_at":"2026-09-24T16:43:31+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Argument podcast joins in on the AI discourse. Relevant to EK due to it being a big topic of his
\n⬆️ 19 points | 💬 124 comments
","metadata":{"score":24,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wog58c","title":"After today’s episode, I would like to hear a discussion of AI’s potential impact on labor that isn’t mostly focused on software developers.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wog58c/after_todays_episode_i_would_like_to_hear_a/","author":"tuck5903","published_at":"2026-09-23T19:45:11+00:00","content":"\n\n\nHere is a [list] (https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/careers-largest-employment.aspx) of the most common jobs in the US today. Most of the top 10 occupations are low paying fields like home health aides, retail clerks, stockers, laborers, etc. However, if you listened to the portion of today’s episode with Huang focused on AI’s impact on jobs and the labor market, you’d think that the most common job in America was software developer, and that most Americans had to do things like learning differential equations in college. This has been a common theme with almost every episode featuring someone from the AI industry.
\n\nI’m rarely an “Ezra needs to push the guests harder” advocate. But I would really like to hear him press these guys on how they think AI will impact the jobs that most Americans actually do, instead of yet another discussion about how computer science students have to learn to review AI code now, instead of writing it themselves. Occasionally you’ll get a brief discussion about white collar work like customer service (number 8 on the list), but that’s about it. Clearly you’d have to have your head in the sand to deny that AI is now capable enough to massively impact programming, science, and other knowledge work. But when it comes to the idea that AI can automate vast swathes of low skilled service work, you’ll get the same asides Huang deployed today about how new technology always creates more jobs than it destroys, before pivoting back to AI’s impact on coding.* What impact will AI have on an overnight stocker at Walmart, for example?
\n\n*as a side note, every single one of these AI industry figures seems to assume that regular Americans are all itching to build a bunch of custom apps for themselves.
\n⬆️ 102 points | 💬 132 comments
","metadata":{"score":117,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wo8nxc","title":"Jensen Huang Is Building Your Future","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wo8nxc/jensen_huang_is_building_your_future/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-09-23T15:10:20+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 3 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":9,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wo36ud","title":"Opinion | Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wo36ud/opinion_jensen_huang_vs_the_ai_doomers/","author":"EsotericPharo","published_at":"2026-09-23T11:20:11+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 80 points | 💬 581 comments
","metadata":{"score":93,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1wn8x72","title":"Slow Boring: Why I send my kid to low-income urban public schools","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1wn8x72/slow_boring_why_i_send_my_kid_to_lowincome_urban/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-09-22T13:03:12+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/why-i-send-my-kid-to-low-income-urban
\n\n\n\nMatt Yglesias writes on the recent Nikole Hannah-Jones article (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html?unlocked\\_article\\_code=1.ClE.KPoY.AiZ5r0aDhYUU&smid=nytcore-ios-share)
\n\nMatt comments about how he sends his son to a similar school but I think the thing that Matt misses is Hannah-Jones did not send her daughter to her local school she chose PS307 which was outside her neighborhood.
\n\nMatt is sending his son to a school in a community he actively lives in.
\n\nMatt doesn’t really dive into the details or join the pile on of Hannah Jones but more to point out that not all schools are the same and its important to engage with specifics of local situations.
\n⬆️ 120 points | 💬 105 comments
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