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

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There's clearly a group not just of would-be neo-pagans, but sort of conservative Christians on the internet who don't like that and are like, where's the, you know, where's the war? voice-verified

Right? voice-verified

Where's the, you know, we we th this is sort of this is like losing losing the uh the the core the core of the story. voice-verified

And that's an that's I I think that that partially reflects this desire to voice-verified

find something that doesn't seem present in like late twentieth century voice-verified

sort of public Christianity, the compassionate conservatism of George W. voice-verified

Bush, find some kind of fighting spirit in the theory that that's what you need to overcome. voice-verified

Liberalism. voice-verified

Yes, there were some wars. voice-verified

Well, yes, and there is no part there's also some of this is like a creative miss or a convenient misremembering by the right, where you have like young nationalists on the right, young would-be nationalists who will say, you know, the one thing we can't do is go back to, you know, the feckless liberal internationalism of George W. voice-verified

Bush. voice-verified

Um but if you look voice-verified

At the things written in the run-up to the Iraq War, and this is maybe where my war blogger reference at the start is actually relevant, they had a lot in common with populist nationalist arguments today. voice-verified

There's this sort of recurring-that they were like, the West has gotten soft, right? voice-verified

Radical Islam has taken advantage of our liberal weakness. voice-verified

We need to show strength and voice-verified

make a friend-enemy distinction in the battle for the Middle East, right? voice-verified

Um the the whole like national greatness conservatism and it it this runs this voice-verified

history is filled with these like fun ironies, right? voice-verified

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