Ezra Klein has been part of my media diet for about as long as I have been posting in these pages.
He occasionally writes opinions that are the best thing I have read in a while, and this book list is among them:
The Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023
This is another end-of-the-year book list, but with a twist. These are the best books I read about 2023. They are, for the most part, voices from other years helping me make sense of our own. In a world where information keeps speeding up and thinning out, books slow time down, thickening the moment in which we live.
I spent much of the year reporting on artificial intelligence. And my thoughts returned, again and again, to “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” by Meghan O’Gieblyn. Continue reading

