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

How can we be voice-verified

more effective political actors, how can we defeat our enemies instead of having them vanquish us? voice-verified

You could call it a reaching for pagan energy that doesn't go all the way to actually becoming pagan, right? voice-verified

And look, the truth is that you know if you go back and look at the Stephen voice-verified

Uh I'm not a Stephen voice-verified

Well Stephen Miller's not a Wiccan right. voice-verified

But there yeah, th there's a I mean, there it's like the desire is for strength and toughness and a politics of enmity. voice-verified

There's various versions of this that um that show up. voice-verified

And they're connected also to the reality that, you know, if you look obviously historically at voice-verified

the expressions of political Christianity in the Western world, they are, you know, I mean, very comfortable with fighting wars and um, you know, conquering enemies and and all of these kind of things. voice-verified

So people, Christians, conservative Christians today who are like, you know, what happened to the crusading spirit or something like that, are are not wrong that like that that has been part of Christian culture. voice-verified

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You know, you see this in the debate about like the Odyssey, for instance, right? voice-verified

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Christopher Nolan takes the Odyssey. voice-verified

And some people have said he Christianizes it. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

This is sort of debatable. voice-verified

But he he certainly makes the moral vision of the story voice-verified

more compatible with Christianity, where it's like, okay, you know, Odysseus has committed sins and feels guilt, and he doesn't glory in war, um, he doesn't sleep with Calypso, uh, and Circe and so on. voice-verified

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