The Ezra Klein Show
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Recommended for interviews that probe guests' beliefs and give informative, high-quality discussion. Some listeners say the show has declined and now feels over-produced.
Recommended for interviews that probe guests' beliefs and give informative, high-quality discussion. Some listeners say the show has declined and now feels over-produced.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Informative, high-quality interviews
“Worth watching Ezra Klein's interview with Bill Gates.”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “Bill Gates returns to wage war on AI risks” “An interesting listen on this world”
Comment from 23 May 2026 in “Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence” “is high quality and informative”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 on Hacker News - Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent”
Probes guests' beliefs thoroughly
“he's a fantastic interviewer, and I think he does a great job at both helping define and then interrogating the strongest construction of his guest's beliefs”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?” “His goal is to guide the person he's talking to critical places that explain their own world view”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “The Test” Recommended episodes on key topics
“There's a great episode of the Ezra Klein Show on this topic too”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC” “Worth watching Ezra Klein's interview with Bill Gates.”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “Bill Gates returns to wage war on AI risks”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Quality has declined over the years
“His podcast has gotten a lot worse over the years. It feels over-produced now”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?” “I miss the Ezra Klein that did a weekly policy whitepaper deep dive”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?”
Other podcasts people recommend
The four most recommended other podcasts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 29 | 8 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Oxide and Friends | 26 | 3 | 90% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Acquired podcast | 25 | 0 | 100% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Behind the Bastards podcast | 18 | 1 | 95% | 11 | — | Approved |
| The Ezra Klein ShowThis page | 10 | 2 | 83% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Worth watching Ezra Klein's interview with Bill Gates.”
“I think his arguments are very coherent”
“It was a pretty great interview”
“His goal is to guide the person he's talking to critical places that explain their own world view”
“Ezra Klein in recent podcast said Twitter echo chamber let Democrats convince themselves of a bunch of ideas that were politically lethal.”
“is high quality and informative”
“An interesting listen on this world”
“There's a great episode of the Ezra Klein Show on this topic too”
“which I think was a much-needed message”
“I miss the Ezra Klein that did a weekly policy whitepaper deep dive”
“His podcast has gotten a lot worse over the years. It feels over-produced now”
“he's a fantastic interviewer, and I think he does a great job at both helping define and then interrogating the strongest construction of his guest's beliefs”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.