This week, one of the most awaited public policy books in years hits shelves. Titled simply Abundance, the book brings together themes developed in New York Times and Atlantic magazine writing since at least 2021 by longtime political journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Their target: what they call an “ideological conspiracy” and “ideological collusion” between “a right that fought the government and a left that hobbled it,” which in turns creates a scarcity of the things people need to live full lives.