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The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.6 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected]. “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Rogé Karma and Jeff Geld; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Ezra Klein, host of the Ezra Klein Show, which is now at the New York Times.
0:08.1	This is a conversation show.
0:09.6	I get to talk with brilliant people about the questions that obsessed me.
0:13.1	So I think the best way to preview the show is to simply tell you some of those questions.
0:18.5	We often cover American politics as if the presidency is all that matters, but Joe Biden's
0:22.7	agenda will live or die in the Senate.
0:26.1	So what would it mean for Democrats to remake the Senate into an actual legislating
0:29.6	deliberative body again, a seat of effective governance as opposed to these central
0:34.4	national impediment to effective governance?
0:38.5	There are so many shows right now to do on coronavirus, but I want to call this one out.
0:42.4	Did the FDA and the regulatory structure more broadly fail?
0:46.2	Were we are we right now to slow to risk averse to unwilling to move forward on imperfect
0:52.2	information even when lives are on the line?
0:55.3	And so what do we need to learn from that?
0:57.6	I'm a liberal.
0:59.6	I live in California and so I can't help noticing that liberalism, it isn't governing very
1:04.7	well here or for that matter in New York.
1:07.2	The failures and cruelties of Trumpism are obvious, but why are progressives having so
1:11.2	much trouble wielding power well in the places where they do have it?
1:15.9	And then there's this and I'm obsessed with this.
1:19.5	We are not going to legislate enough quickly enough to stop climate change that cannot
1:23.3	be the only path.
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