Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
Columnist, @NYTOpinion Author, "Why We're Polarized" Host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast
I’m writing a book with @DKThomp! It’s about Abundance — how we lost it as a vision, how we can make it a reality. It will build on my work on supply-side progressivism and his on abundance — but where we’re going with it will be fun. From @AvidReaderPress in 2024...
Great interview between @SarahEMcBride and @ezraklein. I don’t agree with every point, but this one hit: changemaking isn’t fair. The burden is heaviest on those closest to the pain and the breakthrough. That’s where strategy and discipline matter most. nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opi…
Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an…
.@ezraklein is right --no contradiction between abundance & progressivism (M4A, tax rich). Our aim is the fulfillment of liberty & equality for all Americans with a just, common national purpose. Legitimate use of power is a means to that; power is an uninspiring end in itself.
Many of my more leftist friends (and frenemies) have pushed me on whether Abundance has “a theory of power.” I often say it does — but they’re not going to like it. And that’s in part because its theory of power is liberal rather than populist.
Last week, Ben Rhodes and I did a @munkdebates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.
Abundance campus organizing mentioned in the WSJ :) I care about this movement because my generation grew up in an era of dysfunctional, antagonistic, and reactive politics. Abundance focuses on outcomes, progress, and a vision for better days ahead. More coming soon!
The administration's response to the Signal debacle is just suffused with contempt for their own voters. Just an endless belief that the people who support them can be tricked into believing the laziest misdirection imaginable.