Ezra Klein

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Ezra Klein is an American journalist, blogger, and political commentator who co-founded Vox. Ezra sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss the current state of polarization, how liberty and equality can work in tandem and the impact of media on the world. Dax asks about his debate with Sam Harris and Ezra details the prevalence of NIMBY-ism. The two talk about the effects of political transparency, the misconception about identity politics and the pros and cons of universal basic income. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by
0:06.6	miniature mouse. Hello there. How you doing? I'm doing good. How are you doing?
0:11.0	It's really good. You know one of our favorite episodes of Sam Harris ever, right, was him debating this man.
0:16.4	This mysterious man, Ezra Klein, we were introduced to him there.
0:21.0	And we really just enjoyed him sparring with our favorite person.
0:25.4	He's quick.
0:26.4	Oh, he good.
0:28.4	He's real good.
0:29.4	So Ezra Klein is an American journalist, a blogger, and a political commentator.
0:33.4	He co-founded Vox, where he is currently editor at large.
0:37.2	He also has a new book called Why We're Polarized.
0:41.0	Please enjoy Ezra Klein.
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1:10.8	He's an I'm Chair expert. get your podcasts. podcasts. You live in Oakland? I do. But you're from Irvine. Is that accurate?
1:27.0	Yes.
1:28.0	Yeah. Are you there for work or do you love Oakland? You know, part of it honestly was it, I like the Bay Area a lot. I love California. We wanted to be closer to my family after we had the baby. But I've been in DC for 15 years and it was important to establish in our lives
1:46.3	the idea that we could change things right to not get so into one particular
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