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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And in so doing, you are handing ammunition to the right, to libertarians, to budget cutters.
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And that really all that a good leftist should say is the old have what everyone else should have.
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So how do you respond to that critique?
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Okay, now I'll speak for the male factors who would twist your perspective, right?
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It seems like from a right wing perspective, if you start with your analysis, you don't have to become Paul Ryan tomorrow.
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Right.
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But if this is your perspective on the world, you should not just want to impose crushing wealth taxes on entrepreneurs or something.
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No, we're dealing with.
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Sure.
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Sure.
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We should be, you know, stripping out regulations that prohibit building new housing of the kind that you mentioned.
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Right.
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And you can go on from there.
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Right.
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Like, why doesn't this analysis make you a man of the left more libertarian, a little more Paul Ryan esque?
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But to get that uplift, you need growth and dynamism.
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You need money that, given our budget deficit picture, we don't have at the moment.
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That's right.
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Absent raising taxes.
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Right.
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