Ezra Klein, photographed by Lucas Foglia; Book cover courtesy of the publisher
Join bestselling author and esteemed journalist Ezra Klein for a discussion on his new book, Abundance. This work of non-fiction is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
About the Program
Bestselling author and esteemed journalist Ezra Klein joins Writers Bloc and the Skirball to discuss his new book, Abundance. This work of non-fiction is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and co-author Derek Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of, appropriately, abundance.
About Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast at The New York Times. He is the author of Why We’re Polarized, an instant New York Times bestseller, named one of Barack Obama’s top books of 2022. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
