Ezra Klein

I do feel like this is a connecting thread in a lot of your work, which is that human beings... need to develop as human beings, around other human beings, in little human societies. And that the more we, particularly in childhood, pull them away from that, the worse they will turn out in terms of

I do feel like this is a connecting thread in a lot of your work, which is that human beings... need to develop as human beings, around other human beings, in little human societies. And that the more we, particularly in childhood, pull them away from that, the worse they will turn out in terms of

We didn't think about radically changing it. A few companies did. A few companies have radically changed childhood and we've accepted it.

We didn't think about radically changing it. A few companies did. A few companies have radically changed childhood and we've accepted it.

This episode of The Ezra Klein Show is produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Isaac Jones with Afim Shapiro and Amin Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Roland Hu, Elias Iskwith, and Kristen Lynn.

This episode of The Ezra Klein Show is produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Isaac Jones with Afim Shapiro and Amin Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Roland Hu, Elias Iskwith, and Kristen Lynn.

We have original music by Pat McCusker, audience strategy by Christina Samieluski, and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie Rose Strasser.

We have original music by Pat McCusker, audience strategy by Christina Samieluski, and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie Rose Strasser.

It's time to work on the discourse.

It's time to work on the discourse.

All right, I'll give this a shot and then Derek can jump in where I failed. We're trying to get Democrats in this case, but it could be both parties, to ask a pretty simple question, which is what don't we have enough of and how do we get it? And that seems like too simple of a question on which to base much of a politics. And then you look around.

All right, I'll give this a shot and then Derek can jump in where I failed. We're trying to get Democrats in this case, but it could be both parties, to ask a pretty simple question, which is what don't we have enough of and how do we get it? And that seems like too simple of a question on which to base much of a politics. And then you look around.

And if you're in California, as we're in California right now, we don't have enough houses. And there are reasons for that. We don't have enough clean energy to meet our clean energy goals. And there are reasons for that. We don't have high speed rail. And there are reasons for that. And if you go to the national level, we didn't get that rural broadband we were promised.

And if you're in California, as we're in California right now, we don't have enough houses. And there are reasons for that. We don't have enough clean energy to meet our clean energy goals. And there are reasons for that. We don't have high speed rail. And there are reasons for that. And if you go to the national level, we didn't get that rural broadband we were promised.

And there are reasons for that, even though $42 billion was passed in favor of it, or that nationwide network of electric vehicle chargers. And so at a pretty basic level, liberals should care that the government delivers the things it promises to you. Like that should be baseline. And if it doesn't, nobody should be more pissed than we are.

And there are reasons for that, even though $42 billion was passed in favor of it, or that nationwide network of electric vehicle chargers. And so at a pretty basic level, liberals should care that the government delivers the things it promises to you. Like that should be baseline. And if it doesn't, nobody should be more pissed than we are.

And if we're not, then over time, the government is going to get a reputation for not delivering and people are going to turn to political movements that promise to make it deliver in another much darker fashion. So that's the sell here. Government should be about giving us more of the things we need to build our life on. It should be about making a future better than the past.

And if we're not, then over time, the government is going to get a reputation for not delivering and people are going to turn to political movements that promise to make it deliver in another much darker fashion. So that's the sell here. Government should be about giving us more of the things we need to build our life on. It should be about making a future better than the past.

Some of that better future is material abundance in different ways, energetic abundance, houses for 25-year-olds to live in that they can afford. And we've been failing at doing this. And so we've got to be able to work backwards from the failures and fix them.

Some of that better future is material abundance in different ways, energetic abundance, houses for 25-year-olds to live in that they can afford. And we've been failing at doing this. And so we've got to be able to work backwards from the failures and fix them.