Ezra Klein, Sheila Liming, Loneliness, and Winnie-the-Pooh
To a man with a book, the whole world is about Winnie-the-Pooh. In this rerun of Ezra Klein’s 2023 podcast about what he calls the “The Quiet Catastrophe,” Klein talks about the loneliness “epidemic” with Sheila Liming, and about her book "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time," and it just naturally dovetailed with “The House at Pooh Corner.” To be honest, what Klein and Liming consider a catastrophe I consider my happy place, but your mileage may vary. Still, Pooh and his friends in the Forest might have some things to teach us about hanging out, community, and what kind of culture we’ve created.