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Berkeley Talks: Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)

In this episode of Berkeley Talks, which first ran in October 2023, The New York Times columnist and podcast host discusses the difficulties liberal governments encounter when working to build real things in the real world.

rows of packaged junk food in a grocery store

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Berkeley Talks: How the tobacco industry drove the rise of ultra-processed foods

Tony Reames next to the cover of a book he co-edited called

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Berkeley Talks: Energy justice expert on his pursuit for affordable and clean energy for all

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Science & environment

Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

black-and-white photograph of women in traditional dress from East Asia walk across a bridge toward Angel Island in the early 1900s

Matrix Podcast: 150 years of border control

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

Berkeley Talks: In 1970, one in five Americans moved every year. Now it’s one in 13. What changed?

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

Dancers from the Joffrey Ballet perform on stage

Cal Performances announces its 2025-26 season

Berkeley Talks: J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity

Alex Filippenko and Pat Joseph talk onstage

The Edge: Life, the universe and everything with Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko

protesters in a crowd with signs reading Science Saves Lives, Don't Silence Science and Fascism Hates Science

Researchers and students gather in Sproul Plaza to ‘Stand up for Science’

Berkeley Talks: Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S.

john powell, ashley gallegos and stephen menendian sit at the front of a room in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

about a dozen dancers in the nutcracker suite perform on stage. six are wearing rat masks and dancing around a group of dancers who look frightened.

The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of ‘The Nutcracker’

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