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

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women do when they bear children. voice-verified

It's what men do when they go to war. voice-verified

Women go to war now too, obviously, but that you know, that once was a division of labor. voice-verified

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Why would you risk why would you take the risk of pregnancy if you know, there's y you're trying to never die, right? voice-verified

Well, maybe we'll have artificial wombs right? voice-verified

I know you know, I know there can be a technological answer to all these things, but uh it just seems to me like voice-verified

Don't die as a centering philosophy risks very strongly risks losing all of the benefits that human beings have gained from being willing to die. voice-verified

Like a willingness to die. voice-verified

Like what are you willing to die for, Brian? voice-verified

clear. voice-verified

Like I don't think that death is good. voice-verified

I'm against death. voice-verified

But I think being willing to die is good. voice-verified

But okay, I'm just gonna end with um and you can respond however you see fit. voice-verified

And I I there's a line in um voice-verified

C.S. voice-verified

Lewis's Narnia books to the effect that this is, you know, in the same zone as Dracula and Dorian Gray and and all the others that um you're trying to either offer an alternative to or not, right? voice-verified

So someone reaches out and claims immortality in that story, and Lewis says they find their heart's desire and find despair. voice-verified

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