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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You write
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You write opinions in order to argue and persuade.
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That that's what opinion journalism, as far as I can see, is supposed to do.
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And
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You know, it's an illusion to imagine that anyone has their whole worldview altered by an 800-word column or anything remotely like that, but but still on the margins at the very least, right?
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You're trying to pull readers closer to your perspective, um, move people to some degree, expose people to ideas they wouldn't otherwise cover.
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And in that sense, there's just no better way to do it.
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than to be
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the person at a given publication who has heterodox views relative to their audience.
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And look, obviously there's lots of conservatives who read The Atlantic when I was there.
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There's lots and lots of conservatives who read the New York Times.
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So if you're if you're working for a big publication, you're never exclusively speaking to people who disagree with you.
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But
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Yeah, clearly clearly I'm speaking to a lot of people who do disagree with me, and that's a gift.
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And then you have to remember that it's a gift because it's also a very stressful
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situation, right?
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The claims you make are going to be exactingly
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scrutinized in a way that is maybe less true of people who
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sort of assume that the audience is going to be on their side.
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Well what have you learned about writing persuasively?
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