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 · How Older Americans Hoard the Future · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, you can get it from raising. voice-verified

You can fix part of the fiscal picture, again, by raising taxes on some of the wealthy people. voice-verified

But you still need to sort of generate economic energy. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

You do. voice-verified

And that is why is that not a deregulatory abundance oriented mission? voice-verified

Is it possible in order to get that kind of politics to have younger Americans think of themselves as a constituency? voice-verified

as like a politically engaged constituency sort of unto themselves in the way that like the AARP did for seniors. voice-verified

Because it seems like for your politics to work, you would, again, I do think you would need a kind of sense of intergenerational warfare as part of politics. voice-verified

I wonder, though, if it almost isn't the voice-verified

like 35 to 45-year-olds who are more of the challenge in the sense that, yeah, you can... Young people may be apathetic, but it's sort of natural for the 20-something to think of themselves as... voice-verified

kind of oppressed by the, you know, the weight of of the world that older Americans have built. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

Whereas it's people like in the thick of it, like in the midst of their working lives or their family lives and so on, who seem less likely to think of themselves like as voice-verified

a class with sort of coherent interests. voice-verified

Now, let me let me speak up on let me speak on behalf of those of those elders. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

Because I think the argument that would be made by them and on their behalf is that what you call unjust hoarding or sort of like, you know, holding on to houses that you should sell or stock portfolios that would benefit your kids is voice-verified

is one, a rational preparation for a world where whatever you do in your professional life, you're gonna live longer than anyone has in recorded history, right? voice-verified

And you need, you know, you need resources for that future. voice-verified

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