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danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
Episode 80
danah boyd is an anthropologist and computer scientist who studies the way people actually use technology. Not the way we wish we used technology, or…
8 years, 8 months ago
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
Episode 79
Sen. Al Franken’s new book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, is the rare politician memoir that’s actually interesting. And note that I said interest…
8 years, 8 months ago
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
Episode 78
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University, the author of Corruption in America, one of the lead lawyers in the emoluments case that’s …
8 years, 9 months ago
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
Episode 77
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of, among other books, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Sinc…
8 years, 9 months ago
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
Episode 76
Few words are as reviled in American politics as “cosmopolitan.” The term invokes sneering, urban, elite condescension. It’s those smug cosmopolitans…
8 years, 9 months ago
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
Episode 75
Yascha Mounk is a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, and host of the podcast, The…
8 years, 9 months ago
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
Episode 74
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release for mo…
8 years, 9 months ago
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
Episode 73
There’s much talk of “empathy” in today’s politics, but it’s a cramped, weaponized form of empathy — an empathy designed to force us to grudgingly to…
8 years, 10 months ago
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
Episode 72
Senator Cory Booker is back! In this special live episode of The Ezra Klein Show — taped at Vox Conversations — Booker and I dig into America’s crisi…
8 years, 10 months ago
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
Episode 71
Washington has been gripped of late by the world’s most depressing, least imaginative, debate over health care. The question, as it stands, is whethe…
8 years, 10 months ago