The Ezra Klein Show

The third will be very difficult for me because it's something between Wendell Berry's Standing by Words and John Donne...

the third will be very difficult... it's something between Wendell Berry Standing by Words

He's now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and he's the author of the book The Much Too Promised Land, which is I think the best single volume history I've read of the various peace efforts.

when I read your book and when I read other histories of this, that strikes me as still a big part of the problem.

In his great book, The Much Too Promised Land, Aaron David Miller points out that before the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel ranked 24th in foreign aid from the US. Within a few years of that war, it ranked first as it typically has since.

He's the author of, among other books, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.

Yossi Klein Halevi, you have many great books, but one that I read in anticipation of this and that I would really recommend to people in this moment is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, which is excellent.

There's a line I love from Yossi Klein and Levi's book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, where he writes, So you can think of the episodes this week as a matched pair.

One of the books I wanted to mention was Kevin Rudd's book called The Avoidable War, The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the U.S. and Xi Jinping's China.

It is just a very deep and realistic portrayal of the relationship and of the impulses of the leaders and the systems there, and an assessment about how this relationship could become one of conflict.

He's also the author of The Avonable War.

Permutation City by Greg Egan. I think it's an amazing story, actually wild story, of how interesting and strange I think the world can get in the context of AI and simulations and hyperrealistic simulations.

The second book I would say is Permutation City by Greg Egan. I think it's an amazing story, actually wild story, of how interesting and strange I think the world can get in the context of AI and simulations and hyperrealistic simulations.

I actually read this book, must have been in high school, called Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg. And I remember reading this book and it was a very inspiring book, but I remember concluding, wow, they hadn't actually made that much progress.

I actually read this book, must have been in high school, called Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg. And it's his book and you know Nobel Prize winner, an amazing physicist, of his work on trying to come up with a unified theory of physics, to unify everything together.

And it's right there in the title, The High Sierra, A Love Story.

when I was reading The High Sierra and I realized you'd actually had a quite serious when you were younger period where you were using psychedelics

And it's right there in the title, The High Sierra, A Love Story.

When I was reading The High Sierra and I realized you'd actually had a quite serious when you were younger period where you're using psychedelics.

One of the threads in high Sierra that I didn't expect going into the book is aging and you turn 70 this year...

Richard Powers ... The Echo Maker ... it's a beautiful novel

I recently reread one of his old novels The Echo Maker and as much as the over story has blown up the world I still would say... I have to read The Echo Maker.

when I wrote this book, Shut Down, about the 2020 crisis.

I wrote this book, Shut Down, about the 2020 crisis.

He's written books like Technosis and High Weirdness.

He's written books like Technosis and High Weirdness.

Megan O'Geeblin's great book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, is sort of all about a lot of the Christian mythology operating in a subversive way here.

I just finished Megan O'Gibbon's book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, and I just loved it.

Megan O'Geeblin makes in her truly fantastic book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, that metaphors are bidirectional. You start applying a metaphor to something else and soon enough it sort of loops around in your mind and you're applying it to yourself. You have a computer, and the metaphor is like the computer is like a mind. Then you begin thinking your mind is like a computer because you get so used to talking about it that way.

My second book is the new book by Mike Jay, who's kind of our best drug historian. It's called Psychonauts, Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind.

My second book is the new book by Mike Jay, who's kind of our best drug historian. It's called Psychonauts, Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind. Jay's been writing for years and years ... It's a remarkable story about how our relationship to psychoactive drugs shapes modernity.

She's the author of two great books about conservative movement, Messengers of the Right and her new one, Partisans, which I highly recommend.

She's the author of two great books about the conservative movement, Messengers of the Right and her new one, Partisans, which I highly recommend.

It actually reminds me of this book that I've been reading, Timothy Shank's Realigners, where he looks at the ways that parties and coalitions change over the course of American history.

That reminds me of this book that I've been reading, Timothy Shank's Realigners, where he looks at the ways that parties and coalitions change over the course of American history.