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

So in the in the latest Knives So the prior Knives Out movie was a movie about how Elon Musk and billionaires are bad and evil. voice-verified

And this the latest Knives Out movie was a movie about how uh there are really awful forms of religion and there's also really good forms of religion. voice-verified

And we should want the really good forms voice-verified

to survive. voice-verified

And you know, it's just uh just one movie. voice-verified

But I thought it was an interesting sort of sense of like a a kind of a kind of like groping around in liberal culture for sort of some kind of religious or spiritual point of connection that again, I think also shows up in voice-verified

Just kind of post-Christian spirituality, interest in sort of new age pagan stuff, all that stuff too. voice-verified

There's just a lot of there's a lot of groping. voice-verified

Well, I think voice-verified

Well th I mean there was a way in which from from my perspective as a skeptical outsider, the whole Great Awokening was this fascinating attempt to do religious energy without metaphysical commitment. voice-verified

Like it was it it really was the case that there was kind of the energy that you associate with a moralistic revival at work in anti-racism and you know everything associated with that. voice-verified

Like you have iconoclasm, you have, you know, people enforcing new moral norms, like these are things that we associate with periods of spiritual ferment. voice-verified

Um, but quite self-consciously, like voice-verified

Like the anti-racist cause was detached from the black church in various ways, right? voice-verified

And you had like our, again, my former Atlantic colleague, Tanahassi Coates, you know, as a kind of prophet who very explicitly rejected cosmic hope, right? voice-verified

If anything, sort of carried a kind of cosmic despair around with him. voice-verified

I think that combination voice-verified

doesn't work well. voice-verified

Right? voice-verified

You end up with a kind of a kind of politics of guilt without the possibility of redemption is a pretty dark perspective on the world. voice-verified

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