On climate change.
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome. The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), 16 Dec 2019. Interview with Saul Griffith.
“How do we decarbonize?” Saul Griffeth, meduim.com, 23 May 2019. (pdf)
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress. Mark Jaccard, Cambridge University Press, 6 February 2020.
The Case for Climate Capitalism: Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis. Tom Rand, ECW Press, 3 March 2020.
“Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” Nathaniel Rich, New York Times Magazine, 1 August 2018.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. David Wallace-Wells, Tim Duggan Books, 19 February 2019.
Climate Wars. Gwynne Dyer, Penguin Random House, 18 August 2009.
“Larry Fink’s Letter to CEOs” Larry Fink, BlackRock Inc., 29 March 2020. (pdf)
“The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle” Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 October 2023. (pdf)
On AI and Machine Learning.
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. John Brockman (Editor), Penguin Press, 19 February 2019.
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb, Harvard Business Review Press, 17 April 2018.
Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret A. Boden, Oxford University Press, 24 August 2018.
“This Changes Everything” Ezra Klein, The New York Times, 12 March 2023. (pdf)
“There Is No A.I.” Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 20 April 2023. (pdf)
On MAN AND THE NATURAL WORLD.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Michael Pollan, Penguin, 1 September 2007.
The Control of Nature. John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 16 August 1989.
Trees, Forests and carbon.
Finding the Mother Tree. Suzanne Simard, Penguin Random House, 4 May 2021.
The Overstory. Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest. Joan Baxter, Pottersfield Press, 3 November 2017.
"The Social Life of Forests." Ferris Jabr, The New York Times Magazine, 2 December 2020.
How Trees Talk to Each Other. TED Talk by Suzanne Simard, 2016.
Richard Powers on What We Can Learn From Trees. The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 28 September 2021.
“Missing The Forest: How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada's Climate Leadership” Natural Resources Defense Council, 2021.
“Canada's Approach to Forest Carbon Quantification and Accounting: Key Concerns” Matthew J. Bramley, Nature Canada, 28 October 2021.
ON The Invasion of Ukraine.
Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really Fighting. Interview with Fiona Hill on The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 8 March 2022.
Putin Is ‘Profoundly Anti-Modern.’ Interview with Masha Gessen on The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 11 March 2022.
Timothy Snyder on the Myths That Blinded the West to Putin’s Plans. Interview with Timothy Snyder on The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 15 March 2022.
The True Origins of Putin’s War with Timothy Snyder. Interview with Timothy Snyder on Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast, 5 April 2022.
Daniel Yergin Thinks Russia’s Days as an Energy Superpower Might Be Over. Interview with Daniel Yergin on The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 22 March 2022.
The Road to Unfreedom. Timothy Snyder, Penguin Random House, 9 April 2019.
The New Map. Daniel Yergin, Penguin Random House, 14 September 2021.
ON The Music Business.
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age. Cory Doctorow, McSweeney's, 18 November 2014.
The Real Reason So Many Musicians Are Frustrated By Spotify Interview with Damon Krukowski on the Odd Lots podcast, 1 April 2022.
Cory Doctorow knows why monopolies are killing art Interview with Cory Doctorow on the Canadaland Commons podcast, 12 April 2023.
ON INFLATION.
Companies Are Telling Us the Real Reason They're Still Raising Prices Interview with Samuel Rines on the Odd Lots podcast, 9 March 2023.
On World War II.
“A New History of World War II” Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, May 2022. (pdf)
On social media, its societal effects, and the business model of free.
Tristan Harris on Humane Tech. The Jim Rutt Show (podcast), Episode 38, 27 Jan 2020.
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris. The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), 19 Feb 2018. Interview with Tristan Harris.
Rabbit Hole. Podcast by The New York Times. Starts 10 April 2020.
“Why The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.” Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 11 April 2022.
The Social Dilemma. Film by Jeff Orlowski, 26 January 2020.
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Jaron Lanier, 2018.
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now. The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), 9 Jul 2018. Interview with Jaron Lanier.
“How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” Cory Doctorow, Medium.com, 26 August 2020.
“The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok” Cory Doctorow, Wired, 23 January 2023. (pdf)
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation Cory Doctorow, Verso Books, September 2023.
On contemporary politics and society.
“Why do people believe the Earth is flat?” Cory Doctorow, The Globe and Mail, 20 September 2019. (pdf)
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives. TED Talk by Jonathan Haidt , 2008.
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong. The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), 26 Nov 2018. Interview with Jonathan Haidt.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, 2018.
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Steven Pinker, Viking, 13 February 2018.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon Books, 1988.
On THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Colin Woodard, Viking, 29 September 2011.
The Wordy Shipmates. Sarah Vowell, Riverhead, 7 October 2008.
“The Case for Reparations” Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014. (pdf)
“The First White President” Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, October 2017. (pdf)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, 2010.
The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, 24 September 2019.
ON The Housing Crisis.
Inventory Vanishing and Bidding Wars Exploding in Crazy U.S. Housing Market. Interview with with Mike Simonsen, CEO of Altos Research, Odd Lots podcast, 20 January 2022.
How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable. Interview with Jerusalem Demsas, policy reporter at Vox, The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 23 July 2021.
“We're building a lot of housing, so we must be building enough housing. True?…” Twitter thread by @benmyers29, 29 January 2020. (pdf)
“Toronto’s missing middle should be built along collector roads” Geoffrey Turnbull and Lawrence Holland, Spacing Magazine, 13 December 2019. (pdf)
ON The Trucker Sieige of Ottawa.
“The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers” Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian, 8 February 2022. (pdf)
ON The Mass Casualty Commission.
“Heidi Stevenson shows us how to address policing“. Tim Bousquet, Halifax Examiner, 31 March 2023. (pdf)
ON Cryptocurrencies.
A Viral Case Against Crypto, Explored. Interview with Dan Olson on The Ezra Klein Show podcast, 5 April 2022.
Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How to Make Money in Crypto Interview with Sam Bankman-Fried on the Odd Lots podcast, 25 April 2022.
ON Evangelical CHristianity.
“The Real Origins of the Religious Right.” Randall Balmer, Politico.com, 27 May 2014. (pdf)
“Soldiers of Christ: I. Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch.” Jeff Sharlet, Harper’s Magazine, May 2005. (pdf)
“Soldiers of Christ: II. Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters.” Chris Hedges, Harper’s Magazine, May 2005. (pdf)
“Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics.” Gordon Bigelow, Harper’s Magazine, May 2005. (pdf)
ON CORRUPTION IN CANADA.
Mystery Brain Disease Cases Quadruple, Says New Brunswick Doctor Canadaland podcast episode #894, 19 June 2023.
Is New Brunswick Covering Up A Deadly Brain Disease? Canadaland podcast episode #808, 22 August 2022.
Is New Brunswick Covering Up A Deadly Brain Disease? Canadaland podcast episode #746, 17 January 2022.
The Westray Disaster Canadaland Commons Mining podcast episode #4, 24 November 2021.
The Irvings Canadaland Commons Dynasties podcast episode #2, 1 October 2019.