The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra you’re just phenomenal! Your latest short episode “Don’t believe him” is a masterpiece of the genre! We need more journalists and thinkers like you! Keep it up!

Ezra’s show is insightful and thought provoking! Sometimes, he becomes fixated on one topic, and then brings it up to every guest he talks to regardless of the guest’s background. He should make this a feature of the show (instead of or in addition to book recommendations): ask the guest to tell Ezra what the guest thinks about this topic that Ezra cannot stop thinking about, then Ezra does the same for the guest. The only point that makes this show difficult for me is that Ezra up-talks constantly, and it seems to have gotten worse over time. I cannot determine the purpose. I have two hypotheses. For people who often monologue to others, it is a way of keeping attention heightened and makes it unclear when the speaker is done speaking, so people are less likely to interrupt. Or it is virtue signaling that he is questioning his own views, which is intended to suggest that he is thoughtful and open minded. I could be wrong about both. I do not know, but I don’t love it. However(!!!) the content is great.

Ezra is brilliant. I sometimes disagree with him but he is so insightful, nuanced, intelligent that its always worth a listen. Please keep bringing diverse and “annoying” views! Fantastic

I used to look to Ezra for rigorously thought-through moral clarity, yet the most recent episodes betrays that experience fundamentally. Allowing guests to spew untruths uncontested and replicating the abhorrent framing of events from other mainstream media outlets (although given the censorship even within the NYT that shouldn’t be surprising) has exposed Ezra as the unreflective upholder of an unjust status-quo he so openly purported to challenge in previous podcasts and commentaries.