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Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
Episode 50
From 2012 to 2015, Evelyn Farkas served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, where she was responsible for poli…
9 years, 2 months ago
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
Episode 49
Columbia law professor Tim Wu makes me feel boring and underaccomplished. He’s been a Supreme Court clerk, a Silicon Valley startup employee, a bests…
9 years, 2 months ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
Episode 48
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author at the Atlantic. His book, Between the World and Me, won the National Book Award, and was spoofed on SNL. He's writing …
9 years, 2 months ago
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
Episode 47
Patrick Collison is the 28-year-old CEO of Stripe, the online payments company that was just valued at $9 billion.Haven't heard of Stripe? You've pro…
9 years, 3 months ago
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
Episode 46
José Andrés isn't just a chef. He's a force. All that talk of how DC is now a hot dining scene? Andrés deserves more than a bit of the credit. He's p…
9 years, 3 months ago
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
Episode 45
There are few episodes of this show that people loved as much as my conversation with Heather McGhee, president of the think tank Demos. Our first di…
9 years, 3 months ago
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
Episode 44
Why did Hillary Clinton lose the election? Why did Donald Trump win it? And why was the polling so completely wrong?No one digs deeper into the demog…
9 years, 3 months ago
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
Episode 43
We’re bringing the Ezra Klein Show to you a little early this week because, well, there's an election coming in a few days. And we wanted to talk abo…
9 years, 4 months ago
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
Episode 42
To understand the 2012 election, you had to ask a political scientist. To understand the 2016 election, you need to call a linguist.At least, I did. …
9 years, 4 months ago
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
Episode 41
This week’s guest is a Nobel Prize winner. We like to sprinkle those in every so often. Joseph Stiglitz revolutionized how economists understood mark…
9 years, 4 months ago