The Ezra Klein Show

There's a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.

The third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.

Matt Contenetti, who was at the Weekly Standard and launched the Free Beacon and recently wrote this history of The Right called The Right.

One that I would recommend is actually really well-timed for the fact that we're at the beginning of a new year. It's a book called Fit Nation, the Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession by Natalia Petrozzella.

There is a book that's not out yet, but it's coming out in May and it's brilliant. It's called Dreamland, America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman.

the third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson Cowey's Freedom's Dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal power.

So there's a view, if you can see it in books like Gary Grissle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which I think gives us real attention and I really recommend that book to people.

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.

you see it in this book, Asymmetric Politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins.

Matt Contenetti ... wrote this history of The Right called The Right.

Matthew Desmond writes that in his new book about poverty, Poverty by America. But Poverty by America is supposed to be something a bit different.

So this is a great book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem.

the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called Scarcity, which is by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

I recommend What Then Must We Do by Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it in 1886. It's a weird book, but I kind of love it because the great writer is really wrestling with the same question this book is wrestling with.

I really loved Race for Profit by KeeangaYamahtta Taylor. This is a historical work, and it's looking at what happens when we kind of do policy halfway.

Sheila Lyman is the author of the new book, Hanging Out, which diagnoses what she calls the "quiet catastrophe" brewing in our social lives.

One of the things I understand your book is doing is exploring this downstream consequence of isolation, of loneliness, of atomization, which I think is pretty underexplored.

In the book, in the chapter where I talk about third spaces, borrowing this concept from the sociologist Ray Oldenburg, I talk about how third spaces, which are supposed to be those spaces that exist between home and work, are something that becomes increasingly difficult for one particular class, I think, to access.

My first recommendation is a book by TejuCole called Black Paper, a collection of articles and essays combined with some lectures; the book was published in 2021 and includes lectures from 2019 where he thinks about concepts like ethics in the modern world.

The third book is lighter reading but still wonderful--a novel called The Hair by MelanieFinn, published in 2021 by Two Dollar Radio, a feminist gothic thriller that's super fun, very dark, and gorgeously written.

Allen's vision, which she puts forward in her new book Justice by Means of Democracy - and yeah, I know I'm saying democracy a lot - Allen's vision is something called power sharing liberalism.

In my book, Justice by Means of Democracy goes well beyond process, right? There's a different vision for political economy.

the kind of things that Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky talk about in How Democracies Die.