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Linda Kinstler

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The Divided CityBook Nicole Loraux

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The first book I would recommend is it's called The Divided City by Nicole Loraux um who was a kind of French scholar to gorgeous writer and it's this book that talks about the inherent division of politics and how you can overcome it and historically it's it's a it's a takes us back to the classics to ancient Athens that is the titular divided city and speaks about you know, the difficulty of coming together after a moments of profound rupture.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Warring Visions of American Power” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-linda-kinstler.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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Crossing the Red LineBook Akbar Shahid Ahmed

recommended

It's called Crossing the Red Line um by Akbar Shahid Ahmed which is about the Biden administration's uh shifts in policy towards Gaza and precisely how that played out and you know, I was just reading it on the train here and it is a very in in-depth reportage about how the kind of red line was um ignored uh and how they kind of set

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Warring Visions of American Power” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-linda-kinstler.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

2026-08-14·youtube.com ↗

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