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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But it's a very
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Yeah, I I don't know where it goes from from there.
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Like, do we just have a world where like it's sort of natural if you're in the elite to be Catholic the way it would have once been natural to be an Episcopalian?
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But that's somehow separate from like what's happening in mass trends and religion?
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Does an elite turn to Catholicism eventually sort of trickle down and sort of revitalize
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the wider Catholic institutions.
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I have no idea.
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Do you think the relationship between the left and religion has changed?
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Yes.
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Uh I think that again, I'm not sure where this goes, but I feel like the kind of post Christian left is having its own kind of existential crisis of like pessimism.
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But I feel like
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There was a period when it when on the left it was like we are leaving traditional, patriarchal, cis-heteronormative Christianity behind, and we're gonna be great.
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We're gonna, you know, we're gonna enter the broad sunlit uplands of science.
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We're gonna trust the science in this house and so on.
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And then somewhere between COVID and Trump returning and you know, the rise of AI and
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various other unsettling things, um, I think the left started to feel like they were missing something.
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Um, you know, if you watch
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Did you watch the la the last Knives Out movie?
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I did.
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Right.
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