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The Ezra Klein Show · November 15, 2025 · 75m

The Case for Abundance

Ezra Klein (solo)

Klein makes the case for an 'abundance agenda' — that progressives should focus on building more (housing, clean energy, infrastructure) rather than just redistributing what exists. A manifesto for left-wing supply-side thinking.

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Canon

Klein traces how regulatory protections (environmental review, historic preservation, community input) expand over time, each new protection becoming the baseline for demands for additional protections.

Highlights

Progressives have become the party of 'no' — vetoing construction, development, and growth
Klein argues that progressive politics has been captured by NIMBY interests, environmental litigation, and process-oriented thinking that blocks the building of things progressives need (housing, transit, clean energy).
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