Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

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Interesting Times · Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein on the Art of Persuasion · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

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interesting to do, but you're not going to get a sort of final decisive answer. voice-verified

Like if someone describes their religious experience, there's no journalistic trick that can tell you, was that really God or not? voice-verified

But with UFOs, like there are concrete claims made about objects that operate in physical reality that are observed by, let's say, Navy aviators, and there are other concrete claims about supposed secret g programs that the federal government has. voice-verified

And those are questions that journalists should be able to answer. voice-verified

So I'm interested in the UFO story in particular, but also voice-verified

other questions like the you know, the the debates that we're already having about AI consciousness, these kind of things. voice-verified

Not because I think they are unknowable. voice-verified

But because I think that they actually do presumably have answers, right? voice-verified

Like maybe the AI consciousness debate will never be resolved or something. voice-verified

But like the question of how dangerous AI is going to be, how transformative AI is going to be, guess what? voice-verified

We're going to find out. voice-verified

Like I know people, smart people in Silicon Valley, who talk about voice-verified

all human timelines now in terms of like three years. voice-verified

Right? voice-verified

They're like, oh, if you don't do it in the next three years, you're not you're not going to do it because the singularity is coming. voice-verified

Now, I'm skeptical of that argument, but we're going to find out, right, over the next three years whether those kind of singularity believers are right or not. voice-verified

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Yes, I'm interested in zones of uncertainty and questions that sort of don't have immediate and obvious answers and questions that touch on the supernatural or the metaphysical and so on. voice-verified

But as a journalist, I'm only interested them in them insofar as you can figure out what the hell is going on. voice-verified

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