On his most recent pod interview with Ross, Ross and Ezra had this to say about Christianity, Paganism, and a random Wiccan comment:
\n\nRoss: I think what’s more common is a desire among people who are connected to Christianity, who are Christian and so on, to say: Well, where can we find greater strength? Where can we find greater toughness? How can we be more effective political actors? How can we defeat our enemies instead of having them vanquish us?
\n\nYou could call it a reaching for pagan energy that doesn’t go all the way to actually becoming pagan. And look, the truth is that if you go back and look ——
\nEzra: But Stephen Miller is not a Wiccan. [Laughs.]
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard Ezra talk about paganism in the same breath and Christianity and I’m so confused. Paganism is an ancient pre-Christian spiritual path. And neo-paganism is a very large umbrella - not all of us are right wing Nazi-esque neo pagans trying to take over Norse mythology and make it white supremacist bullshit. Is this what he’s referring to?
\n\nPagans are reconnecting with Spirit - the earth and the divine energy within us all. Pagans are nice people damnit lol. How is “vanquishing enemies” “pagan energy”? Ross even later points out that Christians have a long history of violence (Crusades).
\n\nSome pagans describe themselves as witches, and some as Wiccan. But why is a Wiccan comment connected to Stephen Miller and in the same breath as Christianity? Both Ross and Ezra laugh and I just don’t get it…
\n\nThere seems to be a weird fascination with paganism - I’ve heard Ezra mention it several times in head scratching ways.
\n\nCan someone explain this to me?? Thank you!!!
\n⬆️ 2 points | 💬 3 comments
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\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 30 points | 💬 26 comments
","metadata":{"score":38,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vmfmzz","title":"Woke Two: Cancellation Boogaloo?! - Politix","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vmfmzz/woke_two_cancellation_boogaloo_politix/","author":"SomethingNew65","published_at":"2026-08-12T14:25:25+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWoke Two: Cancellation Boogaloo?!
\n\nWhat to make of the progressive rethink of Woke One.
\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have conceded to the excesses of what we must all now call Woke One. But the concession, and that characterization of it, raise some obvious questions.
\n\nIn this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
\n\nWhat was Woke One;
\n\nWhich aspects of it do progressive leaders now concede were “crazy”;
\n\nWhy did it happen in the first place?
\n\nThen, how relevant is any of this for near-term politics so long as Donald Trump is in power wrecking the economy? The country keeps losing jobs (or putting up extremely week monthly jobs numbers). Congress is about to give Trump more power to impose tariffs. And there’s no clear offramp to the war in Iran. Are Republicans simply fucked? If so, why hasn’t the war been a bigger political disaster for Trump? Could Democratic leaders forge a factional truce around a midterm-campaign promise to end the war next year? Or is it going to be 2007 all over again?
\n
https://www.politix.fm/p/woke-two-cancellation-boogaloo
\n\n\n\nFurther reading:
\n\nMatt on how the high cost of living is tearing Republicans apart.
\n\nBrian takes a stab at a Woke One origin story.
\n\nWhy are Democrats voting to give Trump more tariff power?
\n\nThe doctor advising Republicans on how to lose weight says his miracle diet gives him orgasmic, wipe-free poops.
\n
⬆️ 10 points | 💬 200 comments
","metadata":{"score":19,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vls5jl","title":"Kumbaya Watch on Edward Said on National Review Online","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vls5jl/kumbaya_watch_on_edward_said_on_national_review/","author":"Metacatalepsy","published_at":"2026-08-11T19:56:23+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\nA good chunk of the recent \"exit interview\" of Ross Douthat centered the early blogging experience, and I thought it was worthwhile to go look up what that actually looked like.
\n\nThis one is a somewhat representative sample of Ross's output from that era, which paints a more stark view or what the \"war blogger\" era was like.
\n\nI don't want to like, jump too hard on something that is now twenty five years old and a position that has been at least in part abandoned by its author, but at the same time, it's also a reminder of what that \"golden age\" of blogging actually entailed, and the quality of thought that was elevated afterward.
\n⬆️ 5 points | 💬 7 comments
","metadata":{"score":10,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vlk0x4","title":"Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vlk0x4/ross_douthat_the_exit_interview/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-08-11T15:05:40+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 1 points | 💬 2 comments
","metadata":{"score":3,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vlejzh","title":"Ross Douthat interview EkS show","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vlejzh/ross_douthat_interview_eks_show/","author":"Character_Public3465","published_at":"2026-08-11T11:15:47+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ross-douthat.html
\n\n\n\nShow notes :
\n\nMy colleague Ross Douthat is leaving The Times after 17 years to become a correspondent on “60 Minutes.” Before he goes, I’m asking him a few questions.
\nDouthat has had a unique vantage point on the news media and politics over the last few decades. He’s typically held the role of explaining the right to more liberal audiences, starting as an undergrad, when he was a conservative columnist for The Harvard Crimson. Douthat has also lived through the seismic changes in the media from the both the inside and the outside: He’s made his career at legacy media institutions, but I first got to know him – and spar with him – as an early-2000s blogger (and I have the 20-year-old Bloggingheads.tv clips to prove it).
\nSo what does Douthat make of the transformations he’s lived through? How did blogging change journalism? How did a Republican Party powered by evangelical Christians become a political party dominated by Catholics and pagans? What has he learned about persuasion from writing for liberal audiences? And with the resources of “60 Minutes” behind him, will he finally crack the U.F.O. story once and for all?
\nMentioned:
\nMagnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV
\n“Is It Time for a New Sexual Revolution?” with Louise Perry, Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
\n“Christopher Nolan’s Finest Trick” by Ezra Klein
\nGrand New Party by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
\nBook Recommendations:
\nSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
\nDe Gaulle by Julian Jackson
\nTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
⬆️ 32 points | 💬 113 comments
","metadata":{"score":62,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vlb8qd","title":"\"Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy\" by Gil Duran","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vlb8qd/nerd_reich_silicon_valley_fascism_and_the_war_on/","author":"SativaGummi","published_at":"2026-08-11T08:07:13+00:00","content":"\n\n\nI could not recommend this 36-minute interview any more highly. If you want an explanation for what's going on that transcends right vs. left and Republicans vs. Democrats, here's a highly plausible one:
\n\n\n⬆️ 8 points | 💬 2 comments
","metadata":{"score":8,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vilv6m","title":"lol Ezra’s answer on the Chris Ruffo pushback from fans question was such word salad and academia speak it made no sense.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vilv6m/lol_ezras_answer_on_the_chris_ruffo_pushback_from/","author":"Puzzleheaded-Pin4278","published_at":"2026-08-08T04:03:36+00:00","content":"\n\n\nAt first he alluded to not pushing back hard enough was due to time constraints and then when claire called out it was over 2 hours he completely pivot to the typical “this isn’t a podcast where I tell ppl how to think”.
\n\nNobody was asking to be told how to think, but a bit of honesty and challenging your guests especially if they have been a massive propagandist that help accelerate this past decade of far right fascist tendencies.
\n\nLook, Ezra is super successful and has a massive following and he clearly knows what he is doing to get attention and stay relevant.
\n\nWeather he wants to admit it consciously or not, but having guests like Rufo on is a sure fire way to garner attention and make that podcast episode talked about by a large swath of the population, case in point.
\n\nTo have more episodes like that is to not make the guest super uncomfortable or ppl like rufo to not want to come in the future.
\n\nIt’s disingenuous to say it was because of some higher, philosophical/academic free speech virtue of why he just let ruffo spread propaganda with very mild push back.
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 22 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vi06sw","title":"I Answer Your Questions on Peter Thiel, Chris Rufo and the D.S.A.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vi06sw/i_answer_your_questions_on_peter_thiel_chris_rufo/","author":"Radical_Ein","published_at":"2026-08-07T13:08:21+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 16 points | 💬 46 comments
","metadata":{"score":59,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vgiu9f","title":"Republicans are in too little disarray","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vgiu9f/republicans_are_in_too_little_disarray/","author":"topicality","published_at":"2026-08-05T20:21:33+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/republicans-are-in-too-little-disarray
\n\n\n\nSlowboring article about how Republicans are hurting their electoral chances by being so beholden to Trump
\n⬆️ 34 points | 💬 55 comments
","metadata":{"score":69,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vfcyhx","title":"The A.I. Revolt Is Here","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vfcyhx/the_ai_revolt_is_here/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-08-04T15:05:22+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 2 comments
","metadata":{"score":23,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vf7six","title":"EKS | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This (Gift Article)","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vf7six/eks_the_ai_giants_werent_prepared_for_this_gift/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-08-04T11:35:04+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s big and ugly and has united Republicans and Democrats? A.I. data centers.
\n\nAn overwhelming majority of Americans say they’d oppose a data center being built near where they live. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul just imposed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, and there are over 100 other local or statewide moratorium proposals across the country. A.I.’s explosive momentum over the last few years seems to have finally run into a force that could slow it down: the messy politics of getting things done in the real world.
\nSo, is that a good thing, or a bad thing? And how much is the data center backlash about the actual construction of these buildings, and how much is it about A.I. itself?
Jasmine Sun has an excellent newsletter covering both the culture inside the A.I. companies and the anger that’s been building against them. And she just finished a reporting trip in the Midwest, where she interviewed people on all sides of the data center fight. So I wanted to talk to her about what she saw and what she thinks A.I. companies can learn from the growing movement against them.
\n\nMentioned:
\n\n@jasmine’s Substack
\n\nSilicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass by Jasmine Sun
\n\nSam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism (Ep. 145)
\n\nIs Your Social Life Missing Something? This Conversation Is for You. With Priya Parker, The Ezra Klein Show
\n\nBook Recommendations:
\n\nThe Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
\n\nThe Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey
\n\nThe Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
\n⬆️ 9 points | 💬 76 comments
","metadata":{"score":43,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1veo17s","title":"Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1veo17s/author_of_democrats_2024_autopsy_says_party_left/","author":"tpounds0","published_at":"2026-08-03T19:53:49+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 23 points | 💬 49 comments
","metadata":{"score":44,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vdkaum","title":"Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vdkaum/christopher_nolan_stared_into_elon_musks_soul/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-08-02T15:00:59+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":22,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vdf9wn","title":"Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vdf9wn/christopher_nolan_stared_into_elon_musks_soul/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-08-02T11:07:39+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/christopher-nolan-odyssey-elon-musk.html
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 21 points | 💬 3 comments
","metadata":{"score":111,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vbtj07","title":"How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vbtj07/how_trump_has_changed_with_maggie_haberman/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-07-31T15:05:49+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 23 points | 💬 11 comments
","metadata":{"score":29,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vbt0uq","title":"EKS: How Trump has Changed, With Maggie Haberman","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vbt0uq/eks_how_trump_has_changed_with_maggie_haberman/","author":"ReasonableWasabi5831","published_at":"2026-07-31T14:47:06+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000779243170
\n\n\n\nThe first year of President Trump’s second term was a whirlwind of action: on immigration, on trade, on political retribution. But things seem to me to be slowing down quite a bit. Trump is incredibly unpopular, and he’s now bogged down in a war with Iran that he doesn’t seem capable of ending. He often appears more concerned with his many White House renovations than with whether the Republican Party can hold the House and the Senate in November. So what’s going on in this administration? Where is this all going?
\nIt’s hard to think of a journalist more qualified to answer those questions than Maggie Haberman. As a White House correspondent for The New York Times, she’s published some of the hardest-hitting reporting about Trump’s second act as president and the group of loyalists that now surrounds him.
\nHaberman, alongside her New York Times colleague Jonathan Swan, just published an extraordinary chronicle of this extraordinary political moment, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” In this conversation, we discuss how decisions get made in this White House, what Trump has achieved so far and what’s really motivating him as we head toward the midterms.
\nThis episode contains strong language.
Mentioned:
\n“Maggie Haberman on What an Unleashed Trump Might Do” by The Ezra Klein Show
“Trump Says He Decides What ‘America First’ Means” by Michael Scherer
\n\nBook Recommendations:
\nTakeover by Charlie Savage
Strangers by Belle Burden
\n\nI Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally
\n\nThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at
\n[ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com](mailto:ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com).
\nYou can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.html
⬆️ 40 points | 💬 117 comments
","metadata":{"score":51,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vb5blf","title":"You don’t actually want to buy a house","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vb5blf/you_dont_actually_want_to_buy_a_house/","author":"topicality","published_at":"2026-07-30T20:30:45+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-dont-actually-want-to-buy-a-house
\n\n\n\nDiscussion about housing on the argument podcast
\n⬆️ 40 points | 💬 129 comments
","metadata":{"score":45,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vayxg0","title":"Why free markets beat capitalism","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vayxg0/why_free_markets_beat_capitalism/","author":"topicality","published_at":"2026-07-30T16:42:53+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/why-free-markets-beat-capitalism
\n\n\n\nSlowboring post about free markets. Yglesias is the relevance but it also discusses some of the market dynamics Klein has discussed
\n⬆️ 16 points | 💬 108 comments
","metadata":{"score":17,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vaxw7p","title":"How Older Americans Hoard the Future - Interesting Times with Ross Douthat","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vaxw7p/how_older_americans_hoard_the_future_interesting/","author":"mcsul","published_at":"2026-07-30T16:06:04+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 50 points | 💬 160 comments
","metadata":{"score":58,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1vaur20","title":"The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1vaur20/the_town_that_wants_a_data_center_next_door/","author":"OmicronCeti","published_at":"2026-07-30T14:10:32+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/town-wants-data-center-next-door/688108/
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 46 comments
","metadata":{"score":19,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v94uu7","title":"How \"Abundance\" Lost the Left ","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v94uu7/how_abundance_lost_the_left/","author":"tpounds0","published_at":"2026-07-28T17:18:14+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.diabolicalliespod.com/p/how-abundance-lost-the-left
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 283 comments
","metadata":{"score":16,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v914vy","title":"The Democratic Party Needs Change","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v914vy/the_democratic_party_needs_change/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-07-28T15:05:32+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 9 points | 💬 2 comments
","metadata":{"score":8,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v8v8qk","title":"EKS: What is the Democratic Party? What could it be?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v8v8qk/eks_what_is_the_democratic_party_what_could_it_be/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-07-28T11:08:27+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nPresident Trump is very unpopular right now. But polls show the Democratic Party is just as unpopular – if not more so. So what can the party do about it?
\n\nBut to answer that question, you first have to understand what the Democratic Party is. That is, mechanically, what is it? What powers does it have? When you call the Democratic Party, who picks up the phone? And how can that party, the official party, be reinvented for this era?
\nBen Wikler has a unique perspective on this question. He transformed the Democratic Party of Wisconsin into a fund-raising, door-knocking powerhouse when he served as chair from 2019 to 2025. And he’s shared some of his insights from winning elections in a swing state in his new book, “This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy.”
In this conversation, we discuss Wikler’s vision for a reinvigorated party, as well as the kinds of changes he thinks Democrats need to embrace if they want to build a bigger tent and a national majority.
\n\nMentioned:
\n“This Is How Democrats Win in Wisconsin” with Ben Wikler on The Ezra Klein Show
“GOP midterm strategy: Make it a ‘hate election’” by Marc Caputo
\n\nBook Recommendations:
\n\nMaster of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
\n\nSeeing Like a State by James C. Scott
\n\nSal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
\n⬆️ 42 points | 💬 251 comments
","metadata":{"score":42,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v88v3u","title":"Graham Platner and Why Character Matters","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v88v3u/graham_platner_and_why_character_matters/","author":"oakseaer","published_at":"2026-07-27T18:29:58+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContent Relevance Statement: Bouie's video extends the discussion in Klein’s recent episode about Platner’s campaign. The interview stresses the tension between allowing people grace for complicated pasts and recognizing when accumulating red flags reveal fundamental problems with honesty/character. Bouie approaches that same debate through the concept of political character. His argument is that elected officials inevitably exercise enormous discretion in situations their platforms cannot anticipate, making honesty and trustworthiness governing qualifications.
\n⬆️ 57 points | 💬 91 comments
","metadata":{"score":62,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v81zjj","title":"Say Klein is right that a major problem of modern liberal politics is it is over-institutionalized. What does it look like to \"de-institutionalize\" liberal politics?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v81zjj/say_klein_is_right_that_a_major_problem_of_modern/","author":"Helicase21","published_at":"2026-07-27T14:27:41+00:00","content":"\n\n\nKlein has made the point multiple times that modern liberal politics is largely the domain of people who have successfully navigated institutions, probably to a greater extent than is healthy. If that really is a problem, then it would seem that the obvious solution is some form of decoupling, at least in part, of liberal politics from those institutions. But what would such a decoupling look like? Would it even be possible? Would those institutionalists currently in power ever give up even a portion of it willingly if doing so presented an opportunity for growth? Does Ezra Klein need to retire for Ezra Klein's politics to succeed? Many such questions arise from this sentiment.
\n⬆️ 51 points | 💬 94 comments
","metadata":{"score":52,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v7a4qe","title":"The Search for an Exciting Moderate - Pod Save America","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v7a4qe/the_search_for_an_exciting_moderate_pod_save/","author":"SomethingNew65","published_at":"2026-07-26T17:23:45+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does a positive vision for the center-left look like? Can moderation still excite the Democratic base?
\n\nMatt Yglesias, who writes the Slow Boring newsletter and hosts The Argument podcast, talks to Jon about his vision for the Democratic Party and why he believes more Democrats need to embrace heterodoxy.
\n\nThe two discuss how the policy debate could play out in the upcoming presidential primary, the role charisma and attention-getting play in politics, and which Democrats are best positioned to win in 2028.
\n
Matt tweets:
\n\n\n\nI went on Pod Save America to discuss my plan to save America by nominating a presidential candidate who has views on cultural issues that voters agree with.
\n
⬆️ 30 points | 💬 396 comments
","metadata":{"score":31,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v72um8","title":"Navigating A Hostile Society With Ezra Klein","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v72um8/navigating_a_hostile_society_with_ezra_klein/","author":"Radical_Ein","published_at":"2026-07-26T12:42:08+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 32 points | 💬 11 comments
","metadata":{"score":30,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1v6lv4w","title":"My take on Abundance","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1v6lv4w/my_take_on_abundance/","author":"girlbosswoman","published_at":"2026-07-25T22:24:50+00:00","content":"\n\n\nI think the Abundance proposals were a great blueprint and framework as a jump-off point for a national development strategy. Its main gaps, how it would be financed, what sort of new institutions would be needed, and the timing of various things are things I've tried to answer in my own blog, to implement a sort of Abundance-plus.
\n\nEssentially, if Democrats were given the opportunity in 2029 to implement something like the Abundance agenda, what would it look like? How would it develop over the first two, three, four, five years, and thereafter? How do we prevent the CHIPsification of the Dem agenda, where billions of new funding can pass & nothing gets built in time for the next election?
\n\nI'm not saying my answers are the only, or the best ones. But I do think it is a conversation worth having, often and concretely, so that if and when Democrats do win power again, we are actually ready to wield it.
\n\nMy take: https://www.crittingpower.com/p/a-national-development-strategy-for
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","metadata":{"score":1,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tq8ffe","title":"While I love Abundance, I feal like sometimes the movement's supporters becomes too tunnel-visioned only on lowering prices, and ignore other considerations.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tq8ffe/while_i_love_abundance_i_feal_like_sometimes_the/","author":"BackgroundRich7614","published_at":"2026-05-28T16:22:07+00:00","content":"\n\n\nNow before anyone calls me NYMB is disguise, I will say that I am a staunch YIMBY; I want to get get rid of zoning regulations, build more housings, I am willing to support cuts to certain regulations (not on safety stuff though), and the person I want to win the 2028 race is Beshear. I am absolute pro affordability and want things to be as cheap as possible while also paying workers good wages and having clean air.
\n\nThat being said, I have notice that quiet a few people tend to forget that lowering cost is only a part of what America needs, not the sole factor in policy making, and that sometimes actions that lower prices have drawbacks that make them poor policy overall.
\n\nThe two main forms I see this impulse take are 1: Some activists utter hostility to Private Sector Unions, and 2: A dislike for regulating or curtailing the power of big corporations I see sometimes expressed.
\n\nYes, Unions tend to raise the price of goods, that is a well-known fact. But the Price of Goods rises because it allows for the American worker to be paid more and for there to be more job security. I am not saying Unions are always right, they can overreach at times, especially the bloated public sector unions, but private sector Unions are the reason we have half the safety and good living conditions American workers enjoy now. Treating them as enemies to be opposed just seems to very out of touch given the current climate.
\n\nThe 2nd is an aversion to curtailing the power of bigger business, other through regulations or trust busting. Yes, I agree that massive megacorporations tend to have better benefits and tend to produce stuff at a much cheaper rate. That being said, it's also not very good to have individuals who often are fundamentally opposed to American democracy in the case of those that support the \"Dark Enlightenment\", wielding so much power in American life. I would say it's a good tradeoff to kneecap that power to preempt them trying to make America into an oligarchy like Russia or Hungry during Orbans, or just refusing to work with them after they showed overt support to authoritarian ideologies.
\n\nYes, we should deregulate housing specifically (aside from safety regulations), get rid of zoning, have more free trade, and we should work with corporations that aren't led by crazy people to help develop certain infrastructures.
\n\nAgain, this is not me saying Abundance is bad, I am a diehard YIMBY and 100 percent a supporter of abundance, this is just a criticism of how sometimes it's misused and misapplied to complex situations where the cost of goods and infrastructure isn't the only factor at play.
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","metadata":{"score":10,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tp9pfx","title":"Ezra Klein on Attention, Joe Rogan, Cancellation, and Young Men | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tp9pfx/ezra_klein_on_attention_joe_rogan_cancellation/","author":"volumeofatorus","published_at":"2026-05-27T15:54:29+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 25 points | 💬 11 comments
","metadata":{"score":39,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tp4n9v","title":"Time to freak out about the national debt | Yglesias","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tp4n9v/time_to_freak_out_about_the_national_debt_yglesias/","author":"AvianDentures","published_at":"2026-05-27T12:51:11+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.slowboring.com/p/time-to-freak-out-about-the-national
\n\n\n\nSubmission Statement: Matt Yglesias argues that now is exactly the time Democrats and policymakers should take the national debt more seriously: not because austerity is always good, but because Keynesian logic cuts both ways. If deficit spending is appropriate during a slump, then deficit reduction is more defensible during a period of full employment, strong growth, and persistent concern about inflation.
\n\nI thought this was relevant to the Ezra Klein community because it connects to a lot of recurring themes here: abundance, state capacity, interest rates, the politics of scarcity, and whether Democrats need a more credible governing story around tradeoffs. Yglesias’s point is not “cut everything,” but that a party that wants to make ambitious public investments should also care about fiscal capacity and avoid treating every tax cut or spending program as free.
\n\nCurious how people here think about this. Is deficit reduction a necessary part of a serious abundance agenda, or is this just a return to premature austerity politics under a new label?
\n⬆️ 14 points | 💬 12 comments
","metadata":{"score":127,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tocv5a","title":"A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tocv5a/a_sweeping_theory_of_everything_is/","author":"quiplaam","published_at":"2026-05-26T16:54:20+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/antitrust-theory-barry-lynn/687287/
\n\n\n\nThis article explains the Neo-Brandeisian antitrust movement and how Barry C. Lynn propelled it into the Democratic mainstream, becoming very influential during the Biden administration. Chait argues that antimonopoly changed from preventing large companies from exploiting their size to distort markets, to a totalizing ideology that believes corporate consolidation is the root of all issues in the US. He argues this totalization leads neo-brandeisians to misdiagnose what is actually causing many of the problems the US faces and causes them to reject actual solutions to those problems. Chait specifically brings us the anti-monopoly reaction to abundance where they accused Ezra and Derek of corporate stooges. I think this article would be a good point of discussion for what parts modern anti-monopoly movement should be incorporated into democratic / liberal /abundance policy
\n⬆️ 18 points | 💬 46 comments
","metadata":{"score":61,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1to9jpg","title":"Yuval Noah Harari on the Ruinous Story America and Israel Are Telling","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1to9jpg/yuval_noah_harari_on_the_ruinous_story_america/","author":"dwaxe","published_at":"2026-05-26T15:00:27+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 2 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":10,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1to4kk7","title":"Yuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep Making","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1to4kk7/yuval_noah_harari_on_the_mistake_strongmen_keep/","author":"Dreadedvegas","published_at":"2026-05-26T11:49:45+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/6mYiU3SDr64vJsdvT4yIAi?si=-jdLgcVJScyhwFLh6r9TBg
\n\n\n\nWhat are the conditions that enable a country to become great — or great again? The Trump administration — and other right-wing movements in other countries — offers a vision of greatness based on power and domination abroad, and a mix of shared national and religious stories at home. And that vision is clearly appealing to a lot of people. Liberals in the U.S. and elsewhere have been struggling to tell a story that can compete.
\n\nWhat story would Yuval Noah Harari tell? One of the through lines of Harari’s best-selling books — “Sapiens,” “Homo Deus,” “Nexus” — is the huge role that stories play in shaping the arc of history, driving humans to cooperate on a grand scale to achieve great things, or divide violently against one another.
\n\nSo I wanted to ask him about the stories that the U.S. and Israel, in particular, seem to have embraced right now. What does history tell us about the power of this story? And why does the liberal story seem so weak right now?
\n\nMentioned:
\n\nSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
\n\nHomo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
\n\nUnstoppable Us, Volume 3 by Yuval Noah Harari
\n\n“Understanding AI” by Timothy B. Lee
\n\nBook Recommendations:
\n\nThe MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut
\n\nChimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal
\n\nBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 33 comments
","metadata":{"score":45,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tnyb11","title":"Revisiting Ezra Klein's \"future of the Democrats\" interviews after the last few months","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tnyb11/revisiting_ezra_kleins_future_of_the_democrats/","author":"socks_optional","published_at":"2026-05-26T06:15:59+00:00","content":"\n\n\nOne thing I keep thinking about from the post-2024 Ezra Klein podcast run is how politicians like Jake Auchincloss and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez were presented as examples of a possible Democratic “way forward.” Klein had both on pretty soon after the election.
\n\nI understand what made them stand out a bit. They are younger Democrats, rhetorically against activist language, willing to critique parts of the party, etc. But since those interviews, I honestly think both have been major disappointments and recent electoral evidence might suggest that the “moderate heterodox Democrat” lane is a bit overrated.
\n\nMGP in particular keeps ending up in the small bloc of Democrats helping Republicans pass awful legislation, including the recent anti-trans school bill. And now Auchincloss is publicly attacking Graham Platner in Maine in a way that, at minimum, feels more helpful to Susan Collins than to Democrats trying to win the seat. He is saying Platner was “personally disqualifying” and that he hoped Maine voters agreed with him. Which I understand those who are still iffy about the tattoo, but to me the time to air that was during the primary. Now his only opponent is Collins and no Democrat in good standing should be assisting a Republican majority in the Senate.
\n\nWhat makes this interesting to me specifically in the context of Ezra Klein is that both politicians were elevated as people Democrats should learn from after 2024. But as we get further from 2024, are they the types of Dems actually building a durable coalition? Or are they mostly just popular with elite media/podcast audiences who want Democrats to sound culturally moderate while still being economically center-left?
\n\nI’m curious whether other people here have reconsidered those episodes or the broader “future Democrat” conversation since then.
\n⬆️ 10 points | 💬 10 comments
","metadata":{"score":76,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tnux3e","title":"Is Abundance aesthetics based on solarpunk?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tnux3e/is_abundance_aesthetics_based_on_solarpunk/","author":"RedStorm1917","published_at":"2026-05-26T03:29:07+00:00","content":"\n\n\nI notice lots of artwork related to Abundance looks similar to solarpunk, and movements related to Abundance like New Urbanism, walkable 15-minute cities, mixed-use development, Green Georgism, and Universal Basic Income also are influenced by solarpunk aesthetics. However, it seems like the solarpunk movement itself is fundamentally anti-capitalist
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 7 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tmp6v3","title":"The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tmp6v3/the_vibecession_is_over_the_permacession_is_here/","author":"Bill_Nihilist","published_at":"2026-05-24T21:43:13+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/americans-depressed-economy/687278/
\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 83 points | 💬 124 comments
","metadata":{"score":130,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tkt460","title":"Klein's most complete (so far) articulation of his views on the backlash against data center development","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tkt460/kleins_most_complete_so_far_articulation_of_his/","author":"Helicase21","published_at":"2026-05-22T19:23:02+00:00","content":"\n\n\nThis was generated from the YouTube recording of Klein's recent conversation with Chris Hayes using an automated transcription tool then edited by me for clarity:
\n\n> Hayes: I want to ask this question because we have a question from the audience and I think it sort of brings us to the data center fight because that's where like the rubber hits the road on all this like at some level I'm extremely sympathetic to people fighting the data centers. At another level, there's part of me that's like, well, this is just the NIMBY gun pointed at another target. Usually, I don't like the target they're pointing it at, but maybe this target's fine. This question from the audience is, how would a system of government in the abundance model balance ensuring public sector decisions are both effective and democratic? We're seeing these fights over data centers. How would it resist capture by big corporations?
\n\n> Klein: It's a big question. I'll keep it on the data center point. The thing I have heard talking to a lot of governors, mayors, representatives involved in the data center fights because to be blunt about this question, the way the American political system tries to balance this is that we elect people and they're supposed to be able to balance the various incentives and interests of society in a way that makes sense.
\n\n> And the thing that I think the people who are more forward-looking on this are saying is look, if you want all these data centers, what you have to do is not just pay for the electricity they're going to use. That's table stakes. This is a tremendous amount of investment, a railroad’s level of investment that is going to genuinely be either a huge strain [on] or an opportunity for transformation of a lot of our infrastructure, particularly our energy infrastructure. And so the the data center buildout has to be harnessed, in their view, to some public vision about how it is actually benefiting the communities it is part of. In this way, data centers are not like homes. When we argue that it should be easier to build homes, the reason it should be easier to build homes is [that] it is good for people to live in communities. Like the idea is not omni-building, right? I don't want you to be able to build more coal power plants because those are bad for communities. And the question of whether a data center is good for the community it is in. There's questions about the broader state, about the broader country, right? There's questions about the AI race with China. But the question of whether it's good for a community it’s in, that is something we actually know how to at least try to think about balancing. Now you could at the state level create framework legislation about what kinds of investments in the grid, what kinds of investments in water, what kinds of investments in creating modernization that is desperately needed in order to do big buildouts you want to force. And then if you create a clear set of rules of the road, then there's certainty on how to invest and what you can get done. But what all the people actually dealing with this at town hall meetings tell me, and I think they're right about, is that unless you can tell a town what is in it for them, they don't want it. And they're right. Nothing is in it for them except a bit of tax revenue. But that's not impossible if there's all this money behind it. Money is fungible. Money can do a lot of things, and particularly as an opportunity to modernize our energy grid.
\n⬆️ 23 points | 💬 22 comments
","metadata":{"score":65,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tjrvk9","title":"Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis? | Plain English","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tjrvk9/does_anybody_know_how_to_solve_an_american_debt/","author":"Guilty-Hope1336","published_at":"2026-05-21T17:37:32+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 20 points | 💬 55 comments
","metadata":{"score":56,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tj16ff","title":"The Weird Political System That Built a Better City","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tj16ff/the_weird_political_system_that_built_a_better/","author":"Boring_Pace5158","published_at":"2026-05-20T22:24:37+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEzra’s discussions with Lee Drutman got me thinking about this video by the urbanist YouTube channel Oh the Urbanity. In the video they discuss the Montreal’s unique system of having local political parties, which only run on Montreal-specific issues. The result has been having the city be more proactive and innovative than most other North American cities.
\n⬆️ 12 points | 💬 3 comments
","metadata":{"score":35,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tix1p5","title":"All In with Chris Hayes: AI and the Public Good with Ezra Klein","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tix1p5/all_in_with_chris_hayes_ai_and_the_public_good/","author":"volumeofatorus","published_at":"2026-05-20T19:57:55+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hayes interviewed Ezra about AI and how the political system should interact with AI companies. Interestingly, Ezra was pretty dismissive of claims that superintelligence is near, and that instead we should focus on AI as it current exists. He said we should view it as something the government should have a say in, and that we need to focus on regulating its harms and ensuring it’s used to benefit society instead of just wealthy Silicon Valley investors.
\n⬆️ 15 points | 💬 8 comments
","metadata":{"score":39,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tiqsnf","title":"James Murdoch Buys Half of Vox Media","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tiqsnf/james_murdoch_buys_half_of_vox_media/","author":"zzxxzzxxzz","published_at":"2026-05-20T16:26:06+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⬆️ 35 points | 💬 17 comments
","metadata":{"score":58,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tipn7i","title":"New Wendover video: \"California High Speed Rail: An Autopsy\"","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tipn7i/new_wendover_video_california_high_speed_rail_an/","author":"CardinalOfNYC","published_at":"2026-05-20T15:47:13+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot EK, himself but this is covering one of the signature bits from abundance, how high speed rail failed in California, one of the most left leaning states in America.
\n\nI find Wendover is pretty neutral and unbiased. He is left leaning in that \"reality has a liberal bias\" way but he's rarely explicitly political, so I am looking forward to this one!
\n⬆️ 9 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":32,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1thyb8r","title":"Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1thyb8r/zoning_and_the_dynamics_of_urban_redevelopment/","author":"Plenty_Rub81","published_at":"2026-05-19T19:54:15+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://vrollet.github.io/files/city_structure.pdf
\n\n\nSubmission statement: a top economics working paper (Best student paper at the 2025 European UEA meeting) adds some nuance to our discussion of zoning changes. From the abstract: \"While zoning strongly constrains city growth, the effects of relaxing regulation take decades to materialize and are limited in inexpensive or densely built areas. This is due to the large fixed costs of redevelopment, which rise sharply with the size of existing buildings.\"
\n\nSome key findings:
\n\nIn the data: \"96% of demolished buildings are replaced with larger ones, with new structures on average 3.4 times larger than the ones they replace\"
In the data: \"While upzoning does increase construction, its effects materialize slowly over time: ten years after the policy change, only 9% of the newly allowed floorspace has been built\"
Model prediction: \"an ambitious but realistic upzoning of NYC could increase the city’s floorspace supply by 15 pp over 40 years. However, the take-up of upzoning remains limited in the medium run: at a 40-year horizon, only 18% of the newly allowed floorspace is built\"
Model prediction: \"Fully removing zoning regulations yields larger increases in floorspace (+58 pp), but even in this extreme scenario, residential rents in NYC decrease only moderately (-17 pp)...removing zoning would still yield sizable welfare gains for New Yorkers (+13 pp by 2060), with lower-income workers benefiting the most\"
All credit of summary to u/MarkRobinsonsBurner
\n⬆️ 6 points | 💬 18 comments
","metadata":{"score":13,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1thm1s3","title":"How to End the Gerrymandering Doom Loop Forever","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1thm1s3/how_to_end_the_gerrymandering_doom_loop_forever/","author":"Radical_Ein","published_at":"2026-05-19T12:51:55+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have entered a world of maximum gerrymandering warfare. Any guardrails that once existed, from the Constitution or the courts, have been bulldozed over the last decade – most recently in the Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act and made it harder for minorities to challenge racially discriminatory voting maps.
\n\nRed and blue states alike have been aggressively trying to redraw their congressional maps in response to all these developments. And there is no sign that will end in 2028; legislatures will just continue trying to tweak their lines to squeeze out advantage for whatever party is in power. And competitive districts in this country – already an endangered species – now teeter on extinction.
\n\nThat is, unless something dramatic changes.
\n\nLee Drutman is a senior fellow in the political reform program at New America. He’s one of the most persistent and thoughtful advocates of selecting House members through proportional representation – a system used in many other countries that would make gerrymandering much more difficult. He’s the author of the 2020 book “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America” and writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events.
\n⬆️ 40 points | 💬 106 comments
","metadata":{"score":84,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1the8ab","title":"Why are there so many _virtually_ duplicate posts for every discussion post?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1the8ab/why_are_there_so_many_virtually_duplicate_posts/","author":"Garfish16","published_at":"2026-05-19T06:18:05+00:00","content":"\n\n\nDoesn't this kinda go against the spirit and text of Rule 5?
\n⬆️ 0 points | 💬 0 comments
","metadata":{"score":0,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1thd8uj","title":"Why are there so many _nearly_ duplicate posts for every discussion post?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1thd8uj/why_are_there_so_many_nearly_duplicate_posts_for/","author":"im2wddrf","published_at":"2026-05-19T05:26:22+00:00","content":"\n\n\nDoesn't this also go against the spirit and text of Rule 5?
\n⬆️ 7 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":7,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1thczqi","title":"Why are there so many _almost_ duplicate posts for every podcast episode?","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1thczqi/why_are_there_so_many_almost_duplicate_posts_for/","author":"mustacheofquestions","published_at":"2026-05-19T05:13:43+00:00","content":"\n\n\nBafflingly, these also seem to be created by the Mod. Doesn't this also go against the spirit and text of Rule 5?
\n⬆️ 8 points | 💬 1 comments
","metadata":{"score":45,"source_feed_id":"r-ezraklein","source_feed_type":"reddit"}},{"id":"1tgsh53","title":"The solution to the fertility crisis is pro family ultra conservatism.","link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1tgsh53/the_solution_to_the_fertility_crisis_is_pro/","author":"taboo__time","published_at":"2026-05-18T16:50:36+00:00","content":"\n\n\nIn regard to the recent Plain English fertility podcast posted here.
\n\nI do not support pro family ultra conservatism but I'm looking at the default conclusion.
\n\nIf you look at the US history the 19th century all kinds of wild religious movements started. Some from people moving from Europe. Two examples are the Mormons and the Shakers.
\n\nThe Mormons were started by a person who believed in having very large families.
\n\nThe Shakers believed sex was a sin.
\n\nThe Mormons now dominate Utah and the Shakers are extinct. The difference was cultural. In all the talk of fertility it seems the high disparity between cultures was missed. The only cultures inside industrial nations with positive repro rates are the ultra religious conservatives. They have the desire and plan to keep reproduction high. Any time a religion or sect liberalises it heads into negative reproduction rates. Whatever the religion.
\n\nYes people convert from ultra conservative identities but culture is mostly inherited. Ultras are focused on raising the children without liberal influences.
\n\nThe logical conclusion of this is a world, I mean globally dominated by ultra religious identities.
\n\nGilead by default. Little room for liberalism.
\n\nLots of cultures have a negative repro. But ONLY pro family ultra conservative cultures have a positive repro.
\n\nEven if they decline they still outcompete over time as their rates fall a slower rate.
\n\nA culture has to have people in their 20s meeting and reproducing. Otherwise it is too late for that culture.
\n\nThe Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
\n\nPlain English podcast with Derek Thompson
\n\nI'm in the UK but here's the US stats.
\n\nThe Future Of American Religion: Birth Rates Show Who's Having More Kids
\n⬆️ 4 points | 💬 211 comments
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