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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It's worth $1.2 million, whatever.
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Right.
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And they enter end of life care.
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And it's not like just sort of Republican grinchiness to say,
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There's a lot of trade-offs here that are not resolved by just taking a tax bracket up a little bit.
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Do you think that there's a different kind of attitude towards the old from 40 somethings or 20 somethings that would encourage that kind of attitude in return?
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Like what, what, how should, how should the middle age think about their parents?
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Okay.
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Let's end by talking about maybe the starkest alternative to that vision of chaos, which you touch on in the book, but maybe, you know, gingerly, gingerly.
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Right.
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Which is assisted suicide and euthanasia, which are ideas and policies that have themselves gained a lot of ground and
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Under conditions of aging populations in North America and Western Europe.
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Just give me your general views first on assisted suicide.
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Is it desirable policy, a human rights victory, something dangerous?
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What do you think?
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Yeah, I'm interested in this because there's sort of a couple of poles here, right, in the euthanasia debate.
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You have
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The, you know, the argument that says that you just made that says if people are making this decision absolutely freely feeling that, you know, they've lived their life and want to go out on their own terms, that's OK or maybe good.
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Or if they are sort of, you know, suffering from depression, poverty, all these kind of conditions that sort of render them incapable of making the decision, that's not ideal.
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But I.
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