The Ezra Klein Show

After creating and running Parks and Recreation and writing for The Office, Michael Schur decided he wanted to create a sitcom about one of the most fundamental questions of human existence: What does it mean to be a good person? That’s how The Good Place was born. Soon into the show’s writing, Schur realized he was in way over his head. The question of human morality is one of the most complicated and hotly contested subjects of all time. He needed someone to help him out...

Direct Action Everywhere co-founder Wayne Hsiung explains why he decided to risk his freedom to expose extreme injustice.

Ezra chats with Peter Singer about the re-release of his book "The Life You Can Save".

A conversation with Lilliana Mason about identity politics

Gretchen McCulloch on how the internet revolutionized language

Yancey Strickler on climate change, founding Kickstarter and the perils of profit

Dave Eggers and I discuss satire, the Trump presidency and

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Ezra Klein disucss why today’s rich are far less materialistic, but a far greater threat to equality

Andrew Marantz explains the symbiotic relationship between social media platforms and the alt-right

You’ve heard of Edward Norton. He’s starred in critically acclaimed films like American History X, Fight Club, and Birdman, been nominated for multiple Academy Awards, and, most recently, wrote, directed, and starred in Motherless Brooklyn, a film about a detective with Tourette’s syndrome who ends up taking on the most corrupt and powerful forces in New York City politics. Motherless Brooklyn, as it happens, is one of my all-time favorite books...