{"podcast":{"title":"Night Owls","slug":"night-owls-6745517","podcast_index_feed_id":6745517,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2536306.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/497798","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/c3cy1t8t580bpp0zh772f7txmn1q?.jpg","author":"John Ellis and Joe Klein","episode_count":77,"summary":"Joe Klein and John Ellis on what's happening and what happens next. Joe Klein is the author of seven books and \"Sanity Clause,\" a Substack newsletter. John Ellis is the founder and editor of two Substack newsletters — News Items and Political News Items. The two friends have covered American politics for a combined 95 years.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-owls-6745517"},"episode":{"title":"Night Owls Episode 77 (With Nicholas Eberstadt)","slug":"night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt","published_at":"2026-05-01T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-owls-6745517/night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-owls-6745517","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2536306/episodes/19108330-night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2536306/episodes/19108330-night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Night Owls, Joe Klein and John Ellis talk with political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about his latest book: a collection of essays entitled America’s Human Arithmetic. One of those essays -- 'Our Miserable 21st Century' -- remains the most read \"article\" in the long history of Commentary magazine. In the book, Eberstadt argues that while the U.S. is more prosperous than ever, tens of millions of Americans are not flourishing. The conversation explores how cultural er...","meta_description":"In this episode of Night Owls, Joe Klein and John Ellis talk with political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about his latest book: a collection of essays ent…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2684,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/night-owls-6745517/episodes/night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-owls-6745517/night-owls-episode-77-with-nicholas-eberstadt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}