Psychedelic Therapy, Threads vs. Twitter, My New Book and More
About this episode
With no outside guest, Ezra Klein answers listener questions alongside his editor Aaron Retica. He previews his book project on scarcity: America, he argues, has forgotten how to build — high-speed rail, solar farms, housing — and traces the problem to a progressive politics that has become expert at saying no, citing Josh Shapiro's rapid I-95 rebuild as a counterexample. He discusses his experience with psychedelic therapy, calling MDMA and psilocybin promising for PTSD and depression while remaining skeptical of grandiose claims about being 'healed.' On Threads versus Twitter, he argues Twitter's openness made it uniquely valuable to journalists and that Threads' heavier moderation undercuts its appeal. He also weighs in on the Hunter Biden investigation, the most plausible path to health-care reform, term limits for Congress, and AI-driven misinformation.