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Longtime tech, culture, and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his podcast Plain English. Hear Derek and guests engage the news with clear viewpoints and memorable takeaways. New episodes drop weekly, and if you’ve got a topic you want discussed, shoot us an email at plainenglish@spotify.com.
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Mamdani
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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and I have very different politics on a range of issues, but he has in the past few weeks embraced what he calls an agenda of abundance. So we recently found 30 minutes to sit down and talk calmly about abundance and the left, how we agree, how we disagree, why government efficiency ought to be a virtue of all leaders, and, finally, how to change our minds. On this point, Mamdani and I are in full agreement: To see the errors in our own thinking requires that we have the courage to talk to people we do not agree with.
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Episode Breakdown
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and I have very different politics on a range of issues, but he has in the past few weeks embraced what he calls an agenda of abundance. So we recently found 30 minutes to sit down and talk calmly about abundance and the left, how we agree, how we disagree, why government efficiency ought to be a virtue of all leaders, and, finally, how to change our minds. On this point, Mamdani and I are in full agreement: To see the errors in our own thinking requires that we have the courage to talk to people we do not agree with.
Abundance
By Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein • March 18
‘Abundance’ is Plain English host Derek Thompson and New York Times journalist Ezra Klein’s call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.More info
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