# Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

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Author: New York Times Opinion
Episodes: 67

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## Episodes
- [China's Not the Problem. We Are.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/china-s-not-the-problem-we-are) — 2026-05-14T09:00:00+00:00
- [A Legendary Investor on How to Prevent America’s Coming ‘Heart Attack’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/a-legendary-investor-on-how-to-prevent-america-s-coming-heart-attack) — 2026-05-07T09:00:00+00:00
- [Why Are We Still Driving?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/why-are-we-still-driving) — 2026-04-30T09:00:00+00:00
- [A Bitcoin Evangelist Tries to Convert Me](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/a-bitcoin-evangelist-tries-to-convert-me) — 2026-04-23T09:00:00+00:00
- [Trump Is the End of a 100-Year Experiment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/trump-is-the-end-of-a-100-year-experiment) — 2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00
- [How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/how-ben-sasse-is-living-now-that-he-is-dying) — 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00
- [Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/did-jesus-rise-from-the-dead-a-debate) — 2026-04-02T09:00:00+00:00
- [How Far Will Trump Go in Iran?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/how-far-will-trump-go-in-iran) — 2026-03-26T09:00:00+00:00
- [White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/white-identity-is-galvanizing-the-right) — 2026-03-19T09:00:00+00:00
- [The Democrats Could Still Screw This Up](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/the-democrats-could-still-screw-this-up) — 2026-03-12T09:00:00+00:00
- [Does the Iran War Put America First?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/does-the-iran-war-put-america-first) — 2026-03-05T10:00:00+00:00
- [The New Space Race](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/the-new-space-race) — 2026-02-26T10:00:00+00:00
- [Welcome to the Indian Century](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/welcome-to-the-indian-century) — 2026-02-19T10:00:00+00:00
- [Anthropic's Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/anthropic-s-chief-on-a-i-we-don-t-know-if-the-models-are-conscious) — 2026-02-12T10:00:00+00:00
- [Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/why-ending-roe-wasn-t-enough-for-the-pro-life-movement) — 2026-02-05T10:00:00+00:00
- [‘Trump Has Lost the Country’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/trump-has-lost-the-country) — 2026-02-04T10:00:00+00:00
- [A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/a-plan-to-restore-trust-in-science-from-a-fringe-epidemiologist) — 2026-01-29T10:00:00+00:00
- [Jamelle Bouie and I Debate Trump’s Failing Grade](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/jamelle-bouie-and-i-debate-trump-s-failing-grade) — 2026-01-25T11:00:00+00:00
- [No, Young Men Are Not Returning to Church](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/no-young-men-are-not-returning-to-church) — 2026-01-22T10:00:00+00:00
- [Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/minneapolis-feels-like-being-in-a-civil-war) — 2026-01-16T10:00:00+00:00
- [A Defense of U.S. Intervention in Venezuela](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/a-defense-of-u-s-intervention-in-venezuela) — 2026-01-07T10:00:00+00:00
- [‘Making Sense With Sam Harris’ and Ross Douthat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/making-sense-with-sam-harris-and-ross-douthat) — 2026-01-01T10:00:00+00:00
- [‘A Hard Time We Had of It’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/a-hard-time-we-had-of-it) — 2025-12-24T10:00:00+00:00
- [Will It Ever Be Cool to Be Conservative?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/will-it-ever-be-cool-to-be-conservative) — 2025-12-18T10:00:00+00:00
- [Is Anything Holding MAGA Together?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457/is-anything-holding-maga-together) — 2025-12-11T10:00:00+00:00

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