Ezra Klein — How We Walked Into This and How We Can Walk Out
On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being Studios
4.7 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 1:11.9 | searching I've been looking for personally as a journalist and citizen. I've admired his |
| 1:17.6 | willingness to stretch thoughtfully out of his comfort zone, with a real desire to understand |
| 1:23.1 | aspects of American life very different from his own. So I took this opportunity to interview him |
| 1:29.0 | for my show and have more of the fearless conversation I've been wanting to hear all around. |
| 1:35.1 | About how this political moment goes deeper than now. And instead of asking how our current |
| 1:40.9 | tumult happened to us, can we ask how we walked into it, Democrat and Republican alike so we can |
| 1:48.8 | walk out of it? Before he founded Vox Media, Ezra created the wonk blog at the Washington Post. |
| 1:55.5 | But even at his most wonky, a deep strain of humanism runs through his journalism. And that |
| 2:01.4 | infuses his new book, Why Were Polarized, and where he was willing to go with me in this conversation. |
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