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Jul 2025
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Ezra Klein On: Sane News Consumption; Th...

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On maintaining sanity in insane times.

Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast at The New York Times. His latest book is Abundance, co-authored with Derek Thompson. He is also the author of Why We're Polarized, an instant New York Times bestseller, named one of Barack Obama's top books of 2022. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

In this episode we talk about:

  • How Ezra maintains some degree of equanimity
  • Digital hygiene
  • Ezra's meditation practice
  • Ezra's tattoo, which is a reminder to maintain intellectual humility
  • Ezra's new end of the day ritual
  • The future of the species at what appears to be a pivotal moment.

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