Aaron Gell deserves a special prize for writing the most ridiculous puff piece about Ezra Klein imaginable. Deep.thinker and thirst trap? Are you serious? Nobody I know likes or respects Ezra Klein. Nobody.
Even by the admittedly shoddy sycophantic propaganda standards upheld by Penske outlets, this is one of the most embarrassing lie-infested puff pieces I've read this year.
The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism -- The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/YHYBLxMPMok?si=zRk8xIwopZneCVkf
“The Lost History of Liberalism” by Helena Rosenblatt sounds like an interesting work of intellectual history but a dreadful starting point for developing a new left of center politics in the USA.
Education and "character development" as a political focus is a path into campus moralism and culture war. Concentrate instead on arguments about redistribution and collectivism with regard to health care, housing, and income security.
#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.
“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
"I’m always struck, looking at Trump, by the way a lot of his actions are not those of a rule maker but those of a guy who still thinks that the rules are actually being made somewhere else, and that he needs to get something out of it."
Wow, yes, a very thoughtful and on first reading compelling argument. Also, a (to me) new and deeper look at the Narcissus myth and its relevance. Bookmarked for repeat-reading!
Intensive use of AI tools changes the user and makes them speak _to_ and _for_ the AI, and that in turn changes the person's subtle pre-conscious germination of ideas and makes them lose creative spaces within themselves:
" ... deeper reliance on A.I. would desiccate those less legible aspects of myself, ...".
An important essay. Thank you for the link.
#EzraKlein #noAI #StopTheAICorruption #MarshallMcluhan #Narcissus
This conversation between Ezra Klein and Jack Clark of Anthropic is well worth your time.
"... when you talk to people in Beijing, they will ... point to 2 sources of really extraordinary dynamism in the US economy; 1 is tech and the other 1 is fracking. The other one you might add, thirdly, would be financial engineering. These are all zones in which [US]American capitalism ... doesn't encounter much regulation or obstacle, and is worldchanging, or at least has pretensions to be worldchanging."
#AdamTooze, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html
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