The Ezra Klein Show

Verkligen en av de bästa poddarna om amerikansk politik.

One of the best interviewers of all times! Brings out the best in the guests and creates very stimulating discussions. Amazing show!

The Ezra Klein Show is great for those who want to dip one’s toes into a wide array of subjects. It’s an enlightening experience to discover ideas one normally doesn’t ponder over. Great for those who aspire to become an all-rounder!

The Ezra Klein Show since leaving Vox (i.e. now at the NY Times) has morphed into a biased, nagging bore. No matter who’s hosting. Most recently, “It’s Time to Talk About Pandemic Revisionism’ with David Wallace-Wells was the worst of Ezra Klein and unfortunately the rule rather than the exception to what Ezra Klein show episode is nowadays. Wallace-Wells should never host the Ezra Klein Show again. He is partisan and personal. He gives his own perspective and opinion before trying to (ineffectively) be objective. The same goes for guest epidemiologist, Katelyn Jetelina. Typical millennials, they address every issue through a traumatic, whiny lens with no self distance or awareness that their discussion comes across as an attempt to rationalize the US covid strategy. They (or at least the producers or editors the show) must know that Ezra Klein podcast listeners follow the news, read international reporting that show a correlation between masking for kids, prolonged schools closures, extended lock downs, forbidding community gatherings and unintended negative consequences. Who’s the one revising (or ignoring) history? Listening “It’s Time to Talk About Pandemic Revisionism’ was like listening to a two person therapy session focused working through personal grief, trauma and partisan derangement syndrome instead of being an objective examination of the decisions made during the pandemic. Every time the two of them cite studies and statistics they find ones that bolster the US strategy they believed in (confirmation bias?). According to Wallace-Wells and Jetelina, any perceived correlations between lock downs and mental health or learning loss or alcohol / drug consumption was negligible or unfounded. They never even mention the damage to physical health and impact increased obesity, depression, loneliness, impact on the economy, small local businesses, etc. This was not only revisionist history at its worst, it was the worst of the Ezra Klein Show.