Ezra Klein Has a Crisis of Faith | 5/20/26
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | All right, guys. So I was watching Ezra Klein. Not something I do all that often, but I thought |
| 0:37.4 | the title of the video was interesting. |
| 0:40.1 | It was talking about how liberalism was in some form of crisis. And we needed to understand it at a |
| 0:46.9 | historical level. We need to put liberalism in its historical context so we can better grasp |
| 0:52.9 | why liberalism is currently in the situation |
| 0:56.2 | that it's in. Now, in case you don't know, Ezra Klein is in New York Times, a columnist |
| 1:02.2 | is pretty much everything you'd expect. And it was interesting for me, though, when they talked |
| 1:08.3 | about the history of liberalism, because normally when |
| 1:13.1 | you're talking to a liberal, they're not even aware that there is history. You know, they, |
| 1:17.6 | they know that there was, you know, World War II and slavery and Jim Crow and the civil |
| 1:23.1 | rights movement. That was about it. Like, that's about as much as any liberal will grasp when |
| 1:28.2 | it comes to history. Because history is very, very dangerous to the left. Progressives have to be |
| 1:33.5 | very wary about actual investigations into history. Because if you read enough history, if you look |
| 1:40.8 | deep enough into the past, you start to discover that the worldview that has been |
| 1:45.2 | carefully curated by the liberal left is just radically incorrect. |
| 1:50.7 | And even the worldview that has been curated by much of mainstream conservatism is very |
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