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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These were people who were
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I would say
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The simplest way to put it is that something crazy had happened, something world-altering had happened, right?
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And we at the exact time that the internet was emerging as a force.
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And so there was a huge market suddenly of people who were, you know, on their web browsers, looking at a screen all day, um, and wanted to hear people talking.
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about terrorism, September eleventh, Islam in the Middle East, and then, you know, Afghanistan and Iraq and so on.
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And it's not surprising that the people who filled that niche were mostly people who were in favor of the war on terror and then in favor of the war in Iraq.
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But I I think it really was that
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the event and the demand or the event and the technology sort of intersected to create this opening.
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Like I remember being an intern at National Review in the summer before September eleventh, so summer of two thousand and one, right?
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And so I think Sullivan was blogging.
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There were like two or three people who were when did you start blogging?
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Oh three.
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I was a freshman at UC Santa Cruz.
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Right.
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In 2001, you had the internet and you had a few bloggers.
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And I remember just sitting in, you know, the offices of again this like 50, 60 year old magazine.
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I'm an intern.
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