Fathers and Sons

Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate.

The Ezra Klein Show, 16 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 9 min in.

Azeem Azhar recommends Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, a 19th-century novel set at the moment science and modernity were entering Russia. He says it captures the generational conflict between tradition and progress and asks what bonds endure and what even the most recent breakthroughs in science cannot tell us about what it is to be human, calling it very relevant today.

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