Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.
I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all, is just the sum total of the things you’ve paid attention to. And we lament our attention issues all the time: h...
5 Jan 202456min
Best Of: The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller.He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors power everything from our phones and computers to cars, pla...
26 Dec 202358min
Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
The holidays are one of the most social times of the year, filled with parties and family get-togethers. Many of us see friends and loved ones who we barely — or never — saw all year. Maybe we resolve...
22 Dec 20231h 14min
How the Israel-Gaza Conversations Have Shaped My Thinking
It’s become something of a tradition on “The Ezra Klein Show” to end the year with an “Ask Me Anything” episode. So as 2023 comes to a close, I sat down with our new senior editor, Claire Gordon, to a...
19 Dec 202356min
India Is Transforming. But Into What?
India is known as a country of paradoxes, and a new one has recently emerged. At the same time that the country is poised to become a major global player — with a booming economy and a population that...
12 Dec 20231h
A Different Path Israel Could Have Taken — and Maybe Still Can
Before Oct. 7, Israel appeared to many to be sliding into a “one-state reality,” where it had functional control over Gaza and the West Bank, but the Palestinians who lived there were denied full righ...
8 Dec 202359min
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’
Here are two thoughts I believe need to be held at once: Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7 was heinous, murderous and unforgivable, and that makes it more, not less, important to try to understand what Hamas i...
5 Dec 20231h 3min
A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT. A lot has happened since. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, recently dominated headlines again after the nonprofit board of directors f...
1 Dec 20231h 10min
