August 17, 2026
What the internet is doing to our attention (with Nilay Patel)
The Ezra Klein Show · Nilay Patel · 1 hr 12 min
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Two people who have spent their careers inside the attention economy talk honestly about what it has cost. It is not a lecture about screen time; it is a conversation about what happens to a culture when everything is optimised for a click.
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What did you stop reading properly, and when?
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