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Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Cruelty is weakness.” Powerful Ezra Klein video / column on how Christopher Nolan smuggled a core tenet of Judaeo-Christianity into “The Odyssey” and why the age of tricksters like Trump and Musk may be ending.

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul youtu.be/livIbni7x7o?...

Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 2d ago

This hits hard: “Regeneration is hard. It requires seeing old values in new ways.” From microcosm to macrocosm, it consumes my thoughts. And Nolan’s film is a new way to see Homer. Ezra’s review is a new way to see Nolan’s film.

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)

The finest trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Most of Trump's information comes from Natalie Harp, who’s known as the human printer, and from people who know that he wants a constant supply of positive reinforcement. And his aides are afraid of giving him bad news." @maggiehaberman85.bsky.social in conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

Opinion | How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman (Gift Article)

The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Americans Need to Understand About China Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister of Australia, on how the Chinese president thinks. open.spotify.com/episode/4Lg5... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

Opinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)

Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks.

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · last mo.

i’m late to it but absolutely loved this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social conversation w/ gary shteyngart on searching for meaning in a dystopian and uncertain world. what is the point of life if we can’t figure out how to maximize our own happiness? open.spotify.com/episode/0XCM...

I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · last mo.

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Opinion | The Presidential Cage Match We Needed Is the One We Never Got

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's a pretty good summary of what is frankly a ridiculous story going around, including here on bsky. Peter Thiel is frankly ideologically repugnant, but co-hosting a mini-conference isn't a conspiracy or one of his crimes, and it's fine that e.g. Elizabeth Blackburn attended

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Dialog.

Enough people have asked me about the Peter Thiel-Dialog story that I think it's worth saying what it is, or at least what I saw it to be. So:

–Dialog is a conference. I went once in 2018 and once in 2022. No one ever asked me to keep it or my presence a secret.

–My understanding was Thiel was one of its founders but no longer involved by the time I went. I never saw or talked to him in connection with Dialog.

–Nor did I see the other names I’ve heard mentioned, like Ted Cruz or Elon Musk or Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Jared Kushner. Dialog was not sold to me as a bunch of big names, which is part of why I went. I don’t need to go to a conference to hear what Ted Cruz thinks.

–You could be a Dialog member, but I wasn’t. I don’t think joining got you much except guaranteed invitations to future Dialogs. There were occasional dinners and webinars, but I never went to one. I would not have described it as a secret or a society.

–The panels were largely self-organized, so people would propose panels and hold them. I went to one on being a working parent and another on whether crypto had any real use cases and another on how to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. You’d usually have 8 or 10 people in a room. It was all very TED-talk adjacent.

–In 2018, I found it very optimistic, with an idealistic hacker-ish vibe. In 2022, I found the conversations and vibe more curdled and resentful. I didn’t enjoy it, and I didn’t go back. (That did prove a pretty good signal of where tech’s politics were going though, maybe I should’ve paid more attention.)

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Dialog.

–That said, Dialog was a pretty ideologically diverse crowd. I met some people there who were *extremely* far left and far right. I met some real eccentrics and weirdos. I appreciated that about it.

– I’m a journalist, I go to lots of things in the hopes of getting to know people, hearing new ideas, finding podcast guests, etc.

–Being at something does not mean I endorse it, or everyone at it, or everyone who organized or founded it. I try to go to things where I don’t share the politics and perspectives of the crowd, for obvious reasons.

–I am surprised how credulous some people have been on this story. You have to believe some weird things about the world to believe Julián Castro and Peter Thiel are somehow engaged in a common project. Secret societies, I imagine, need a lot of trust to function, but the people being named here do not trust each other and do not have aligned agendas.

So that’s what I saw at Dialog. I’ll just end by saying it’s a weird experience to have a conference you haven’t thought about for years become the center of a new conspiracy theory.

Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am nine years sober and smoke free. But quitting meat has bested me at every turn. However the “cult of efficiency” gives me greater impetus to keep trying.

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Opinion | What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right. open.spotify.com/episode/1yu0... youtu.be/YK1aj39y55k?...

The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. How Trump Supercharges America’s Risks The political risk analyst @ianbremmer.com argues that the greatest driver of risk in the world right now is President Trump. open.spotify.com/episode/2o7Y... youtu.be/syl9OLNSm4k?...

Why America Is Its Own Biggest Geopolitical Risk | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great episode on the power of cooperation and stories, liberalism, the risks and benefits of AI and more. I really like Harari's liberty-equality-fraternity test for political systems.

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion The best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Nexus” discusses the core delusions deranging our politics. open.spotify.com/episode/6mYi... youtu.be/9NCxS__rtAo?...

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This article is so good. And so overdue.

Jonathan Chait@jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. One in eight American adults is taking GLP-1s. What does that mean for how we relate to our food, bodies and one another? With Julia Belluz, co-author of the book “Food Intelligence". open.spotify.com/episode/7o8i... youtu.be/T_JKQt4mp5I?...

GLP-1s Are a Lot Weirder Than Anyone Thought | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...

Opinion | Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I told @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social that Israel has become even more dependent on US, not less - and this isn't likely to change given expansionist agenda beyond 67 borders and strategy of having military upper hand in region of half a billion by a state of 10 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer. open.spotify.com/episode/3Jjy... youtu.be/mX5U5DNUfBc?...

Why Jeff Bezos’s Tax Rate Is Lower Than Yours | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. open.spotify.com/episode/5GcZ... youtu.be/UPCvEHtBSp0?...

Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One State Reality’ | The Ezra Klein Show

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent episode with two of my favourite public intellectuals on why the civilisation being destroyed is actually the US.

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War open.spotify.com/episode/15An... youtu.be/b5hU0VHM1-M?...

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War open.spotify.com/episode/15An... youtu.be/b5hU0VHM1-M?...

The Moral Cost of Trump’s War | The Ezra Klein Show

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fascinating @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast episode with @michaelpollan.bsky.social on the current state of research into and theories about consciousness. youtu.be/hYrgLn7pWp8?...

The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Is Iran Winning? With Suzanne Maloney, director of the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy program. open.spotify.com/episode/3lFO... youtu.be/nUhi5b8aj7U?...

Is Iran Winning? | The Ezra Klein Show

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“I have been exploring the deepening relationship so many people have with their A.I.s. The protean nature of these systems mean they are never just one thing, but among the many things they are is the one McLuhan warned of: an extension of our self in a material that is not our self.” #AIEthics

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I Saw Something New in San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I Saw Something New in San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Happens if 20 Percent of the World’s Oil Disappears? With energy policy expert Jason Bordoff. open.spotify.com/episode/1TRZ... youtu.be/EEhIfksDzsY?...

What Happens if 20% of the World's Oil Disappears? | The Ezra Klein Show

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