Ezra Klein

I'm opening up cross play.

I've been playing against Dan, my colleague at the New York Times.

Dan played his last turn.

Let's see who won.

It's so close, but I did win.

We've got an announcement before we begin the show today.

I am going to be hosting a forum on housing and affordability with some of the top California governance candidates on Friday, May 8th.

We're gonna discuss why housing in California, my beloved home state, is so damn expensive and what each candidate hopes to do about it.

The event is being co-hosted by the New York Times, Housing Action Coalition,

and the Turner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Foundation.

Tickets are on sale now, so get them while they're available.

We'll include a link and a promo code in the show notes.

It's been a little over a year since Derek Thompson and I published the book, Abundance.

Now, the book didn't begin what I think of as the Abundance Movement, but it did mark a kind of kickoff of the idea as both an object in the discourse, something people are fighting over and creating factional wars over, and actually something politicians are claiming and trying to think through how they would turn into policy.

Actually, being part of this has been a bit of a wild ride on a bunch of levels.

It has created fights I didn't expect, opportunities I didn't expect.

It can be a very weird experience.

But I've been really wanting to come back to Abundance.

been a little distracted from it by the million things Donald Trump is doing.

But if this is to become something more than a synonym for efficiency, if it's to become part of a vision for a better world, I think there's some success to build on, but a whole lot more that actually needs to be done.