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

I can generate more writing. voice-verified

dialogue and conversation are voice-verified

sort of versions of that, places where sort of writers and thinkers sort of show their own humanities, may maybe a little bit more than you do in a kind of voice from the mountaintop column. voice-verified

Um and then again, maybe this is just pr me projecting my own perspective onto the world. voice-verified

But I also think people like these things because voice-verified

like like me, they're a little uncertain about what's what's happening in reality. voice-verified

And the kind of conversational form is a way into the news and what's going on in the world that doesn't require you to sort of accept a single authoritative take and leaves room for uncertainty and ambiguity while also introducing you to perspectives that you might not have considered. voice-verified

That's that's the positive case for it. voice-verified

I can also make the negative case and say that, you know, a world yeah, where people read less and are less literate um has various negative repercussions. voice-verified

I'm not I'm not trying to like sort of be too Pollyannish about this change. voice-verified

At the very least is a real shift, I think. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I I mean look, this is obviously the number one goal. voice-verified

And um, you know, I I've said if I if I can't break the UFO story in I I I I don't want to make any promises. voice-verified

But yes, the subject of UFOs has has come up at once or twice, maybe only from my end, in in conversations about stories that that uh the media should be interested in going forward. voice-verified

think about? voice-verified

How do I think about journal journalism? voice-verified

How do I think I So when I thought of the UFO story as just a story about people who have weird experiences in the woods and come back and claim to have been abducted by UFOs, right? voice-verified

Like that story is interesting, but it's it's not it's not intensely interesting because it's so personalized. voice-verified

Like you're not gonna get it's like sort of analyzing someone's religious experience. voice-verified

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