Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show. Derek Thompson is a writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English podcast. Together they have written a new book titled Abundance that lays out a set of ideas for the future of the Democratic party.
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“arc of of the time in the direction that you find more just well thank you to both of you for fighting for abundance and writing this manifesto for abundance and for all the writing and the work you do in the podcasts and just being incredible minds in this world that I'm a fan of so thank you”
“Ezra Klein Show. Derek is a writer at the Atlantic, author of Hitmakers and on work, and host of the Plain English Podcast.”
“Laurie with Derek and she wrote this piece on in 2020 early 2020 right before the pandemic that went very viral called the affordability crisis and it sticks in my head because she's writing at a time when people were saying the economy's great everything's great like you looked at”
" ... the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise is now--at last--a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great …
“nation, something like that or maybe if something it's more like a 49 Democrat 47 Republican nation. And in 2020 because of the pandemic, Donald Trump suffered a let's call it a 2.5 point”
“good and achievable life is actually good and achievable this is profoundly a question of housing there's this great paper that was written several years ago called the housing theory of everything by bountaine southwood and I forget the other guys name but they made this really beautiful point”
“sort of from different angles for a while I think in 22 Derek you wrote an article on this topic of abundance title the simple plan to solve all of America's problems and Ezra you wrote an article in 21 supplies sides progressivism titled the economic mistake”
""America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disa…
“Ezra is one of the most influential voices representing the left wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the New York Times, author of Why Were Polarized, and host of the Ezra Klein Show.”