If it’s possible to put plants to sleep using anesthesia, what does that say about whether they’re conscious? Can they feel pain? The author Michael Pollan explores this “spooky and interesting” discovery on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

“The brain exists to keep the body alive, not the other way around,” argues the author Michael Pollan as he explores the connection between consciousness and the body in this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

The scholar Henry Farrell explains how efforts to capture Trump’s attention and approval through spectacle resemble the attention dynamics in Nazi Germany.

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.

The right-wing thinker Christopher Caldwell believes the Iran war is the end of Trumpism. Is he right? What was Trumpism in the first place?

How high do oil prices need to climb before the global economy breaks? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Jason Bordoff, an energy policy expert, tells Ezra Klein why a prolonged energy shock could force a devastating choice between economic activity and basic survival for the world’s poorest nations.

How far will the United States go to keep gas prices down? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the energy policy expert Jason Bordoff tells Ezra Klein why the Trump administration is de-sanctioning oil from Russia and Iran even as it pursues military action against them.

The war with Iran could change how the whole world thinks about energy security in the future. The energy policy expert Jason Bordoff explains.

On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the writer Naomi Klein and the Times columnist Ezra Klein discuss how they are thinking about fascism in this political moment — from the elite backlash against movements like #MeToo to the aesthetics and impulsivity of Trumpism.

Naomi Klein’s book “Doppelganger” is a journey into the world of MAGA and right-wing conspiracies. But it’s also a look at how the left’s political culture sits in relation to this mirror world. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the writer talks to the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein about how the use of the “mute button” on social media has spilled offline as well, creating political communities that are isolated from one another.

Naomi Klein and Ezra Klein discuss what the success of MAGA reveals about the American left.

Is the U.S. repeating a century-old mistake in Iran? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Ali Vaez, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group, warns that Western-backed “short-term gains” often lead to unintended consequences.

What is the price of President Trump’s failed diplomacy? Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, tells Ezra Klein that Trump’s preference for “surrender” over “marginal improvements” cost the U.S. a historic nuclear breakthrough.

Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, explains the history of miscalculations that led to the war in Iran.