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 · Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint for a 150-Year Life: Is It Worth It? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Brian, taking psilocybin or falling in love with Kate? voice-verified

You have another chance at that answer. voice-verified

Kate is an amazing woman, number one. voice-verified

That's my first comment. voice-verified

Your love for Brian is a very, very impressive commitment to me. voice-verified

Second, I I just think like, look, there is a dystopian view of life extension, right? voice-verified

And I I agree that certainly it can be based on a kind of freaked out hyperventilation about the future. voice-verified

But it can also voice-verified

also be based, right, on sort of extending from the world as we observe it today. voice-verified

So just to take an example from this very podcast, uh a couple weeks ago I had Sam Moyne on, who is a law professor at Yale, who's written a book called Gerontocracy in America. voice-verified

This is a book about how as people have lived longer and often been healthier late into life, they have ended up voice-verified

effectively sort of maintaining power and influence and wealth in ways that have stunted the prospects for the next generation, right? voice-verified

And again, that's not a case of like just sort of projecting something out of our imaginations. voice-verified

That's something that is concretely happening now. voice-verified

Now, voice-verified

And let's say that your regimen enables you to live to 125, right? voice-verified

would be your approach to your relationship with your children and grandchildren in terms of resources, inheritance, anything like that? voice-verified

But neither but neither is it the goal of who of peop the people who are voice-verified

in Professor Moyne's telling are hoarding wealth now, don't see themselves as hoarders. voice-verified

They're just people who have gotten extra years of their lives and they feel good and don't see why they shouldn't stay in charge. voice-verified

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