Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Interesting Times · Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein on the Art of Persuasion · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

But then at the intellectual level, right? voice-verified

So let's say you are a voice-verified

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writer or thinker or would-be elite on the right, looking at this landscape, looking at not just the decline of Christianity, but this sort of sweeping victory for social liberalism that I just described. voice-verified

Well, you're going to look at that and say, okay, we had an evangelical president in George W. voice-verified

Bush. voice-verified

We had sort of a Catholic evangelical alliance sort of defining Republican politics. voice-verified

And what did we get from it? voice-verified

We got second voice-verified

secularization and the triumph of social liberalism. voice-verified

So something went wrong here. voice-verified

And a lot of the sort of controversy and argument and debate among younger conservatives, especially, but all over the place, is this kind of wrestling with like, well voice-verified

Why did why did we fail? voice-verified

Right? voice-verified

And there's just a lot of different impulses at work there. voice-verified

You have you know, you you have people who sort of want to leave Christianity behind entirely and say the problem, you know, the problem is just like, you know, th this this religion is sort of weak and and its leaders are hapless and defeat and soft and voice-verified

you need, you know, a harsh, a harsh masculine force and so on. voice-verified

That that's that's a pretty narrow group. voice-verified

I think what y what's more common is a desire among people who are connected to Christianity, who are Christian and so on, to like say, well, where can we find greater strength? voice-verified

Where can we find, you know, greater toughness? voice-verified

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