Incredibly inspiring. Brian Eno is not only one of the most important figures in modern music, he is also extremely knowledgeable about art and life. And Ezra is able to bring out the best in him.

This is one of the most illuminating conversations I have heard for a long time. 2 masters at work!

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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
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Loved this! I've been listening to @ezraklein.bsky.social for ~10yrs now (since his The Weeds days w/ Sarah + @mattyglesias.bsky.social) & feel like I've grown up w/ him. The thing I remember from this convo:

"There's a difference between what you believe and what you believe when you're in power."

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

Ta-Nehisi Coates joins the show to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment.
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“It has become easier to imagine the end of America than Democrats winning a Senate seat in Arkansas.”

Ezra Klein on today's episode of the Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social

Trump Is Building the Blue Scare | The Ezra Klein Show

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"The Red Scare took decades to build. At its heart, it had a genuine foreign adversary and real domestic espionage. The Blue Scare isn’t being built with the same care or attention or effort at creating political consensus.

The Trump administration, as it often does, is speed-running the project."

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Trump Is Building the Blue Scare

Corey Robin walks through the history of the Red Scare and the “fractured mirror” it is to Trump’s attacks on his opposition.
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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

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"Leadership is always a choice. You can choose to use a moment like this to deepen our divisions, to pull us apart from one another, to make politics into something yet that much closer to war.

Or you can use a moment like this to reduce those divisions."

I listened to this yesterday, but watching the video just now hit different. I think Ezra Klein is speaking not just an astute observer of politics, but as a husband and a father who's scared to death about the wave of violence that's about to crash over our heads. I don't know what to do either.

We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other | The Ezra Klein Show

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"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."

"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that it is too little to just say we oppose political violence."

Halfway through and really liking it. I much prefer for people to hear Shapiro's words with Ezra's pushback, than hear Shapiro's words when it's just him on his podcast.
For example when Shapiro tries to say that Biden left the border open because he had blood guilt. And Ezra correctly pushed back

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Ben Shapiro and I Talk Political De-escalation

The state — and stakes — of political disagreement in America, both before and after the Charlie Kirk shooting.
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"The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As a country, we came a step closer to losing everything, too... We are all safe, or none of us are."

"I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer.

We are all safe, or none of us are."

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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This is a really good piece, in part because it's a really good example of how to let the reader into the conversations you have with the people you are writing about and how that shapes your thinking: