What if Ezra Klein is right?

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Watch the full interview    • Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out T...  

Interview transcript
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/op...

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/op...

Ezra Klein & Ross Douthat https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/op...

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story...

Politics as a vocation by Max Weber (1919) - There are several translations and “ethic of conviction” and “ethic of ultimate ends” have been translated differently. I found this translation most clear.
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Good discussion of Weber’s 1919 essay relating to Coates & Klein’s discussion by Harjas Sandhu https://hardlyworking1.substack.com/p...

Ian Dunt https://iandunt.substack.com/p/whats-...

“In our survey, approximately half of the voters who self-identified as liberal said it would be acceptable to cut off family members over opposing political views. This was a stance shared by just 19% of moderates and just 11% of conservatives.”
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/were...