Derek Thompson

American journalist and author (b. 1986); staff writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English podcast. He is the co-author, with Ezra Klein, of Abundance (2025), which argues that many progressive policy goals are blocked less by insufficient funding than by self-imposed constraints on the supply side — housing, energy, infrastructure, and drug development.

In the wiki

• Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda — the episode is occasioned by the book Thompson co-wrote with Klein; Klein appears on the promotional tour for it and defends its argument against Tyler Cowen, though Thompson himself is not a speaker in this conversation. Klein’s account of Operation Warp Speed as a model of pairing aggressive supply-side and demand-side policy draws on material the two co-authors developed together for the book.

See also

• Ezra Klein — co-author of Abundance
• Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda — the episode
• Abundance (book) — the book Thompson co-authored