Ezra Klein

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If you find yourself bewildered by this moment where there's so much reason for despair and so much reason to hope all at the same time, let me say I hear you.

I'm Ezra Klein from New York Times Opinion, host of The Ezra Klein Show.

And for me, the best way to beat back that bewildered feeling is to talk it out with the people who have ideas and frameworks for making sense of it.

There is going to be plenty to talk about.

You can find The Ezra Klein Show wherever you get your podcasts.

If you find yourself bewildered by this moment where there's so much reason for despair and so much reason to hope all at the same time, let me say I hear you.

I'm Ezra Klein from New York Times Opinion, host of The Ezra Klein Show.

And for me, the best way to beat back that bewildered feeling is to talk it out with the people who have ideas and frameworks for making sense of it.

There is going to be plenty to talk about.

You can find The Ezra Klein Show wherever you get your podcasts.

There's a great scene in the movie, uh, Walk Harder.

where Dewey Cox, his wife, and he are having this big fight, and he says... All right, that's fine.

And that's exactly how my husband feels, because he'll be talking, and I'll glaze over, and he'll be like, are you writing a song?