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 · Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

But on the question of men in particular, you were talking, you mentioned earlier going to the Democratic Convention and hearing sort of people talking about all kinds of identity groups and their struggles and not talking about men. voice-verified

I think it's very clear from the perspective of people at the Democratic Convention why they're thinking that way. voice-verified

They listen to your story where you say, I was lucky to be born a white heterosexual man in 1960s America. voice-verified

And they say, damn right. voice-verified

White heterosexual men had all kinds of unfair advantages. voice-verified

They were propped up in various ways by what gets called patriarchy. voice-verified

Those advantages have gone away. voice-verified

And OK, now men are struggling. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

But, you know, didn't everyone else have to struggle for hundreds and hundreds of years? voice-verified

Why can't men deal with it? voice-verified

I'm curious. voice-verified

I'm curious how much of what you experienced, the advantages you feel like you experienced growing up are connected to. voice-verified

unfair advantages, sexism, and so on. voice-verified

And what is the thing you can pull out of the 60s and 70s and say, this is still something we can have in a more egalitarian America? voice-verified

But then maybe they can't be gender neutral. voice-verified

I mean, I think part of why you're an interesting figure, right, is that you make a lot of arguments that are right now sort of seen as conservative and conservative coded arguments. voice-verified

A lot of things that you say about the struggles of men are things that you hear from conservative writers, conservative thinkers, and sort of the manosphere in their crudest form, right? voice-verified

And you, as I watch you, I feel like you have these views and you're trying to stay liberal. voice-verified

I mean, maybe that's... voice-verified

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