The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jun 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
The general take
Ezra Klein thinks highly of Chris Hayes' book on attention, calling it "great" and positioning Hayes as his favorite person to discuss this topic with. Beyond Klein's endorsement, there's limited commentary in the provided quotes to gauge broader speaker sentiment or identify any disagreements about the book's merits.
About
The #1 New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society “An ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only our selves but also our politics.” — New York Times “Brilliant book . . . Reading it has made me change the way I work and think.” —Rachel Maddow "A useful primer on how social media and the attention economy have warped our democracy and reshaped our lives." —Barack Obama We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long.
Who said what
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…discussing how attention functions in contemporary american politics
“To help me unpack them, I want to have on my favorite person to talk about this particular topic with. My friend Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes, and author of the great book on attention in the modern moment, The Siren's Call, How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.”
The Ezra Klein Show — Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and the New Rules of Political Attentionat 03:20
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