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

capture the full messy reality of the world in 2026. voice-verified

And if you get that right, then exactly how many Republicans versus Democrats you're reaching is like, you know, that that will sort of follow from success at the basic project of describing the world. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

I I I think there is some, there's clearly some way in which voice-verified

Internet conditions, digital conditions, and whatever the hell is going to happen with AI are sort of weakening the hold of the written word. voice-verified

I've certainly kept writing while doing my show uh at the times, and I intend to find ways to keep writing um while I'm working for CBS. voice-verified

So I I that's voice-verified

That part of journalism is very important to me. voice-verified

But yeah, people like it's not only podcasts and audio, right? voice-verified

Like in, you know, if you look at like what people engage with at the New York Times, they also engage with written dialogues. voice-verified

Like they love the feature that our colleagues Brett Stevens and Gail Collins or David Brooks and Gail Collins did of sort of c a conversation back and forth. voice-verified

They really like the voice-verified

Features um that my longtime editor John Guida does where he'll sort of interview someone in a a written form where you're writing and people are writing writing in response. voice-verified

Yeah, the transcript. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And and some of it I think is that people voice-verified

want to see the person underneath the writing. voice-verified

And maybe this becomes more the case in the age of AI. voice-verified

Tyler Cowan, who you know, you you know his work well, one of his arguments about AI is that it basically is just going to increase the premium for, for instance, live performance, right? voice-verified

For the the ability to to speak in public and engage with questions and all these kind of human things will go up as AI voice-verified

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