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

Uh I've only been doing it for, you know, less less than two years. voice-verified

But presume presumably I'm going to be doing a lot of interviewing, right? voice-verified

That's my hope. voice-verified

And I I find interviewing I don't know how you find interviewing. voice-verified

I find it very difficult relative to writing. voice-verified

Um writing just comes easier and more naturally to me than voice-verified

than interviewing does. voice-verified

Um but I have found interviewing just very helpful at a moment when voice-verified

like what is actually going on in the world seems more opaque to me. voice-verified

And so, yeah, one one reason to take a job at sixty minutes is just an opportunity to sort of voice-verified

do more of that for a for a somewhat different audience than than the Times has, although of course there's overlap. voice-verified

But um yeah, this is sort of and th this is yeah, this this seems like a good time a good time to to ask questions a little bit in an open ended way. voice-verified

Um and that's I guess, you know, that's what we've both been doing with our shows, but that's sort of what I'm thinking I'll be doing there. voice-verified

of in spite of reading my columns all these years, Ezra who is made of persuasion voice-verified

You would you would need to get Barry to come on your podcast, right, to get sort of her answer to that question. voice-verified

I again I see what what I want to do at sixty minutes in the show itself, I think is in keeping with what the show has always done incredibly well, which is yeah, help help people understand what's really happening in the world and get sort of an accurate sense of reality itself through interviews, investigations and so on. voice-verified

That that's sort of I th I think would voice-verified

If you had Barry here, she would say that is her formal goal, that lots and lots of media institutions have lost the trust of people um who aren't politically liberal or progressive, and so there's a way to sort of voice-verified

try and have a more balanced view of the world and try and get those people back. voice-verified

My own primary sense of what sixty minutes can do is more just voice-verified

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