Ross Douthat

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

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

I think of myself as someone who was sort of present for voice-verified

both the end of an old dispensation and the beginning of a new one. voice-verified

So I had sort of parallel careers in my early twenties. voice-verified

I had the career inside the Atlantic where I was doing junior editor work and sort of trying to work my way up voice-verified

the masthead at an institution where you know you were still doing fact checking and copy editing on these huge sheets of paper that would be printed out and circulate around the office and seventeen people would have red pen on them. voice-verified

And it it was very much a pre-internet magazine and a pre-internet journalistic experience. voice-verified

And then then at the same time, sort of as a side hustle, I was voice-verified

blogging, doing freelance writing, and sort of participating in the kind of the world of early the early 2000s Internet. voice-verified

Those two things sort of converged because what then happened, as you know, was that many, many traditional publications looked at that landscape and said, ah, this is the future and we need to co-opt it. voice-verified

So at The Atlantic, that meant being voice-verified

Basically creating a mini uh editorial page or opinion page that consisted of prominent bloggers that the Atlantic had hired. voice-verified

So there was a period when uh they brought in Andrew Sullivan, who was then the biggest deal in blogging, but they also had Iglesias, Megan McCardell, Tanahasi Coates, um and and then me, because I voice-verified

I was already on staff and I can tell you that my own traffic numbers were were somewhat lower than than the others. voice-verified

Um but that that was sort of the the path, as you know, in that era because you followed it too, was to voice-verified

sort of be a kind of outsider, blogger, critic of the establishment and then an establishment institution might hire you or buy your blog or or bring you on board. voice-verified

And it was just that in my case, I was sort of already on board when that happened. voice-verified

Well, so there were a couple of phases, right, where um there were a couple cohorts of bloggers who became a big deal. voice-verified

And the first wave was uh immediately after September eleventh, and then in the run up to the Iraq war, where you had a set of people who were some of them were former liberals who had moved right, uh some of them were just right wingers, but they got called the war bloggers. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

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