Ezra Klein

So much of the book is about being found. What have you found?

So much of the book is about being found. What have you found?

They didn't give her to you.

They didn't give her to you.

Your kid wakes up at 7.30 in the morning?

Your kid wakes up at 7.30 in the morning?

You said something really interesting in an email to me when we were talking about doing the show. And you wrote to me, and you're talking about parenting, that where you're looking matters so much. And it is so hard to look both near and far at the same time. Can you say more about that?

You said something really interesting in an email to me when we were talking about doing the show. And you wrote to me, and you're talking about parenting, that where you're looking matters so much. And it is so hard to look both near and far at the same time. Can you say more about that?

One of my most inconvenient beliefs about the world is that we now know too much about it and that the human mind is not meant to be stretched over this much threat and danger and tragedy at all times. I work in the news. My show is part of this dynamic I'm about to describe, but the news can sometimes be an engine.

One of my most inconvenient beliefs about the world is that we now know too much about it and that the human mind is not meant to be stretched over this much threat and danger and tragedy at all times. I work in the news. My show is part of this dynamic I'm about to describe, but the news can sometimes be an engine.

for finding and bringing you whatever is going to most upset you that is happening literally anywhere on earth at that exact moment. And It's not that it's not on some level good to know about it. I don't want to go to the point where we never knew about it.

for finding and bringing you whatever is going to most upset you that is happening literally anywhere on earth at that exact moment. And It's not that it's not on some level good to know about it. I don't want to go to the point where we never knew about it.

But I often think that probably the healthy medium was to be able to pick up a newspaper once a day and find out about terrible things happening elsewhere and important things happening elsewhere and sometimes wonderful things, but less often wonderful things happening elsewhere. As opposed to be with your kids in the park and your phone buzzes

But I often think that probably the healthy medium was to be able to pick up a newspaper once a day and find out about terrible things happening elsewhere and important things happening elsewhere and sometimes wonderful things, but less often wonderful things happening elsewhere. As opposed to be with your kids in the park and your phone buzzes

And it's just something terrible that you cannot affect. It's not even happening to anybody you know. You definitely don't have power over it. But somebody somewhere thought it would grab you to know about it. And it's strange. It both makes you aware of suffering, but also I think it has some kind of other quality, some numbing and exhausting quality that is not healthy enough.

And it's just something terrible that you cannot affect. It's not even happening to anybody you know. You definitely don't have power over it. But somebody somewhere thought it would grab you to know about it. And it's strange. It both makes you aware of suffering, but also I think it has some kind of other quality, some numbing and exhausting quality that is not healthy enough.

And I'd like to do that by asking you to read a short passage from your book, which is on page 174. Sure.

And I'd like to do that by asking you to read a short passage from your book, which is on page 174. Sure.

I like this idea that happiness does not get enough attention or theorizing. So if it's not these proximate forms, amusement and pleasure, to you, what is it?

I like this idea that happiness does not get enough attention or theorizing. So if it's not these proximate forms, amusement and pleasure, to you, what is it?