Derek Thompson

Derek Thompson

26 Interviews

Derek Thompson's Interviews

Adam Conover & Derek Thompson + Ezra Klein 07 May 2025 • EN

Why America Can’t Build (Yet) with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Could many of America’s biggest problems be solved by simply building more? The theory of abundance suggests that from the housing crisis to the climate crisis, we could make real progress—if only we had the will and the systems to build boldly and swiftly. In their new book Abundance, Ezra Klein of The New York Times

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Derek Thompson & Sara Seager 22 Apr 2025 • EN

An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life

Last week, a team of astrophysicists from the University of Cambridge announced that they had discovered the “strongest indication” ever of extraterrestrial life. The source did not come from Mars or Venus or any nearby moon. It came from K2-18b, a massive planet some 120 light-years from Earth. If this finding checks

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Andrew Heaton & Derek Thompson + Ezra Klein 16 Apr 2025 • EN

Faster, Cheaper, Better Government: Derek Thompson on “Abundance”

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are the authors of “Abundance” a book about removing artificial scarcity and embracing a worldview that focuses on end goals, building, growth, and increasing the supply of everything we need and want. He joins to discuss the book, zoning, why America can’t have nice trains, and how we can

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Jerusalem Demsas & Derek Thompson + Ezra Klein 15 Apr 2025 • EN

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson with Jerusalem Demsas

In Abundance, journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson explain how one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems and offer a call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity, from climate change and housing to education and healthcare. In conversation with Jerusalem

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Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is probably the most talked-about book in the country right now. And the most hotly debated. It’s a book about how we got here — here being a country without enough housing, a country that has lost its ambitious optimism, a country that has forgotten how to build. The prescrip

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Ezra Klein + Derek Thompson 06 Apr 2025 • EN

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at The New York Times and the author of Why We’re Polarized. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, host of the podcast Plain English and a news analyst with NPR.   Klein and Thompson’s new book Abundance is a call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired

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