Book Therapy Project - Abundance
One of the most hotly debated books of 2025 has been Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. And though I’m not usually one to jump on any bandwagon, this book is genuinely too good for our group to pass on.
The book brings together themes developed in The New York Times and Atlantic magazine since at least 2021 by political journalists Klein and Thompson. If you’re an avid reader, you will likely see in this book ideas and questions you’ve already seen before.
But here, all Klein and Thompson’s work has been packaged up, organized and laid out neatly for us to ponder. They argue, essentially, that the right fought the government and the left hobbled it, leaving us with not enough of what we need to live full lives. Then they propose a simple but radical way we can fix that.
For the Book Therapy Project October pick, I am happy to present: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.
About the Book:
“Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. … In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.”
We’ll get into questions like:
We have a startling abundance of the goods to fill a house and a shortage of what’s needed to build a good life — how can we change that?
What would happen if we stopped pursuing economic growth at all costs?
If we can all agree there is a housing shortage, why can’t we just build more homes?
Event Details:
📚 Abundance
📅 Wednesday, October 29, 2025
🕕 6-9 PM (conversation starts at 7:30 & we wrap at 9)
🍕 Pizza provided, BYOB
📍 Hell’s Kitchen (address upon RSVP)