Abundance

Ezra Klein is an American liberal commentator, journalist, and author. Klein was born and raised in California, and he graduated with a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Early in his career, he worked as an independent political blogger before he was hired by The Washington Post to work as a political and economic blogger. He then also wrote for Bloomberg News and MSNBC before leaving to found Vox News along with other veteran journalists in 2014. In 2020, Klein left Vox to serve as an opinion columnist and podcast host at The New York Times, starting The Ezra Klein Show. Klein typically covers politics in his opinion columns, and his podcast also discusses relevant political matters. Klein is the author of the 2020 nonfiction text Why We’re Polarized, which examines how America became politically polarized in the 20th century and how polarization impacts the way Americans view each other and the world around them.

Klein was inspired to write Abundance after he wrote a 2021 column in The New York Times titled “The Economic Mistake the Left is Finally Confronting,” in which he tackled the issue of supply-side economics (also known as “trickle-down economics”) and its negative impacts in the political landscape of the US.