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

And I think sort of wokeness for all its revolutionary zeal ends up itself just in some dark places, again, independent of what's happening with Trump or on the right or anything else. voice-verified

So some of it might be just a reaction to that, too, right? voice-verified

A sense that like, okay, we can't voice-verified

can't moralize at people if we're also telling them that the universe is sort of empty and meaningless except for like the meaning we impose on it through ideological categories or something. voice-verified

Like you need if you're going to have progressive moralism voice-verified

You need to be able to claim to that it corresponds to something like out there in the cosmos that's real. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

I don't totally agree with that. voice-verified

Bush was voice-verified

Yes, maybe at this point we have sort of moved through the Trump era to a point where um liberals are saying, like, okay, Trump is so corrupt and such a rotten person in all these ways. voice-verified

And so what if we counterpose a kind of beautiful politics of human dignity against him? voice-verified

But that's after trying for many years to say an voice-verified

And again, not you personally, maybe, but some some people, right, saying Trump is rotten and corrupt, and his rottenness and corruption reveals the dark racist heart of America, and the fact that we're all still enthralled to Confederate patriarchal values, and what we need is a sort of total moral reckoning with all the deep, profound evils of the United States. voice-verified

messages. voice-verified

And I think the left kind of ran with the second message for a while. voice-verified

And again, I think ended up in some cul-de-sacs and dark places. voice-verified

And so now it's like, okay, now maybe we'll voice-verified

Maybe w we like that Pope Leo is voice-verified

linking his critique of AI to a vision of human dignity rather than voice-verified

a dark just a a purely dark vision where you're like AI is bad because it is controlled by uh you know voice-verified

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