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The Ezra Klein Show

What I'm Thinking About at the End of 2022

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.611K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

As 2022 comes to a close, we decided to invite listeners to send in questions for an ask-me-anything episode. And boy, did you all deliver. We received hundreds of fantastic questions, and my column editor, Aaron Retica, joined me to ask some of them. Is equality of opportunity preferable to equality of outcomes? What would a better version of Twitter look like? Are Republicans more politically savvy than Democrats? What do recent advances in artificial intelligence mean for the future of our society? We also discuss why I think ChatGPT is simultaneously overhyped and deeply unnerving, whether Joe Manchin’s policy obstructionism helped Democrats at the midterms, the death of the expanded child tax credit, why I’m more bullish than ever on eliminating the filibuster, whether Mitch McConnell is actually the strategic mastermind that liberals portray him as, why I’m skeptical of Twitter as a tool for social justice, whether the advent of social media has actually made our lives better in any measurable way and more. And we end with my New Year’s resolution practices and a whole bunch of music and children’s books recommendations. Note: “The Ezra Klein Show” will be taking a break during the holidays, but we will be back with new episodes starting on Jan. 3, 2023. Mentioned: Share your guest suggestions here “The case against equality of opportunity” by Dylan Matthews “The Senate Has Become a Dadaist Nightmare” by Ezra Klein “The Time Tax” by Annie Lowrey The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel The Sabbath World by Judith Shulevitz Music Recommendations: Playlist Children’s Book Recommendations: Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen Thoughts? Email us at [email protected]. Guest suggestions? Fill out this form. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Rogé Karma and Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Ezra Klein, this is the Ezra Conchell.

0:24.4

Hello and welcome to our last episode for the year.

0:27.2

This is the Ask Me Anything episode and after this we're going to be off for a couple

0:30.5

weeks and enjoying the holidays.

0:31.8

We'll be back in the new year.

0:34.3

But before we get to it, we want to hear who the guest is you would most like to see

0:38.4

on the show next year.

0:39.8

Ideally someone we may not have heard of.

0:41.9

Don't suggest Joe Biden or Beyonce, not saying they would not be great but we know about

0:46.0

them.

0:47.0

But someone with a fascinating theory or framework or idea that we can explore.

0:52.5

We built a submission forum for this for nerds.

0:55.5

So it's easy for us to keep track of your suggestions and that form is linked in show

0:59.6

notes.

1:00.6

So click the link, fill out and send us your first round EK show guest draft picks.

1:04.9

We really will read them and we do find a lot of our best guests through you.

1:08.7

So we appreciate it.

1:09.7

Alright, but now the Ask Me Anything.

1:13.0

And I'm joined for this today by my friend, my honored editor, Aaron Reddica, who has

1:17.4

kindly agreed to ask your questions of me and to make sure I don't squirm away from

1:21.4

them too much.

1:22.4

I'll turn the mic over to him.

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