Ask Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties, Reading and More
We asked for your questions, and you answered. Hundreds and hundreds of fantastic questions poured in, and our producer Annie Galvin joined me to ask some of the best of them. Does the infrastructure bill mean there’s more hope for bipartisanship than we thought? What’s my view on the degrowth movement? What do I think my book, “Why We’re Polarized,” got right, and what did it get wrong? Will plant- and cell-based meats ever be cheaper than eating animals, given the subsidies the meat industry gets? Why hasn’t any blue state created a single-payer health care system? Can you really build more housing without creating a biodiversity crisis?
We also get into reading habits, comic books, meditation, children’s books, why I spend a lot of time thinking about death and much more. So here it is: the “Ask Me Anything” episode.
Mentioned:
"What Does Degrowth mean? A Few Points of Clarification" by Jason Hickel
"The Ugly Secrets Behind the Costco Chicken" by Nicholas Kristof
"The Number of Parties" by Maurice Duverger
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman
"Forget Obamacare: Vermont Wants to Bring Single-Payer to America" by Sarah Kliff
"What the Rich Don't Want to Admit About the Poor" by Ezra Klein
Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
Supergods by Grant Morrison
Book Recommendations:
Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
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“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.
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