Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Сувгийн дэлгэрэнгүй
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
The first draft of our future. Mapping the new world order through interviews and conversations. Every Thursday, from New York Times Opinion. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/a...
Сүүлийн дугаар
50 дугаар
Better Sex, Better Hair, Better Sleep: ‘Humanmaxxing’ Is Here
We can enhance athletic performance, lose weight with a pill and even take psychedelics to alter consciousness. At what point does all this self-optim...
Anna Paulina Luna Wants Everything Disclosed
In an era defined by deep institutional distrust, a new trend within populist conservatism has emerged. It’s a sense that the federal government is ke...
Our Military Is Built for the Wrong Century
The future of high-tech warfare has arrived. Just look to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran to see how much drones and robots have remade the modern b...
A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.
What’s really driving the humanities crisis in higher education? As enrollment and reading decline, I asked Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy,...
China's Not the Problem. We Are.
The United States and China are really the only two countries that matter right now in shaping the A.I. future. As President Trump and President Xi Ji...
A Legendary Investor on How to Prevent America’s Coming ‘Heart Attack’
A stalemated war. Fractured alliances. A rival waiting in the wings. It feels to me that we’re having an “end of the American empire” moment. My guest...
Why Are We Still Driving?
Self-driving cars are here. But what kind of future will they bring: safe roads and extra time or dystopian traffic jams? My guest this week is Andrew...
A Bitcoin Evangelist Tries to Convert Me
One question has haunted my investment strategy for years: What is cryptocurrency actually for? It feels as though the vibes are constantly shifting —...
How the Supreme Court Defeated Trump
President Trump has tested the limits of presidential power since he returned to office — from his assertion of total control over federal agencies to...
How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying
How would you live if you knew when you were going to die? I sat down with the former Republican senator Ben Sasse to hear how he is facing his own mo...
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.
Even if you don’t believe he walked on water, the teachings of Jesus still have a certain power. My guest this week, the New Testament scholar Bart Eh...
How Far Will Trump Go in Iran?
Is the U.S. winning the war with Iran? Even though President Trump claims success, it doesn’t quite feel like it — oil and gas prices are high, the St...
White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right
The idea that white people — and white men in particular — face discrimination has become something of an obsession on the American right.
It’s...
The Democrats Could Still Screw This Up
Can the Democrats finally seize on President Trump’s increasing unpopularity and end their slump? It seems to me as though 2026 is providing them ampl...
Does the Iran War Put America First?
I don’t think a war with Iran is what Trump — or his voters — had in mind when he campaigned on “America first.” My guest this week is Curt Mills, the...
The New Space Race
We’re going back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. That is, if Artemis II can get off the ground. I sat down with Jared Isaacman,...
An Ancient Power Is Reasserting Itself
The next global leader is waiting in the wings — and no, I don’t mean China. India is the major power with the fastest-growing economy and the world’s...
‘Something Will Go Wrong’: Anthropic’s Chief on the Coming A.I. Disruption
A.I. is evolving fast, and humanity is falling behind. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, has warned about the potential benefits — and r...
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement
Nearly four years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, where is the pro-life movement setting its sights? That’s what I wanted to know from the activist...
‘Trump Has Lost the Country’
I want to say something that few conservatives will admit right now: Donald Trump has lost the country. The coalition he assembled to defeat Kamala Ha...
A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’
If you want to understand how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the face of American public health, you have to go back to the Covid era. Medical authoriti...
Jamelle Bouie and I Debate Trump’s Failing Grade
President Trump’s aggressive return to the White House has been disruptive in ways that will continue to reshape American — and global — governance an...
America’s Very Weird Religious Future
Something surprising is happening to religious belief in America: It’s no longer trending downward. Are Americans becoming more religious? On this epi...
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’
Can cellphone cameras and whistles impede President Trump’s immigration policy? On this week’s episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross speaks with Franci...
A Defense of U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
What should the U.S. do next in Venezuela? President Trump’s former Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams wants the Trump administration to push harder for f...
‘Making Sense With Sam Harris’ and Ross Douthat
This week we’re sharing an episode of ‘Making Sense With Sam Harris.’ The author and podcaster recently invited Ross on his show to discuss religion a...
‘A Hard Time We Had of It’
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! This week Ross Douthat shares one of his favorite poems for the occasion, “The Journey of the Magi,” written by T....
Will It Ever Be Cool to Be Conservative?
Edgelords, Groypers, Sydney Sweeney’s jeans. American pop culture is having a right-wing moment. Ross recently joined the “Popcast” hosts Jon Caramani...
Is Anything Holding MAGA Together?
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, conspiracy theories and divisions multiplied on the right. On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross talks to A...
The Shifting Politics of Transgender Rights
The transgender rights movement in America appeared to be gaining momentum. But after suffering a big loss before the Supreme Court in June and facing...
He Has a Plan for the Left. It Might Involve Overthrowing the Constitution.
Happy Thanksgiving! If you’re dreading your family’s impending political feuds over turkey and dinner rolls, we’re here to share an episode that just...
Understanding the Right’s Antisemitic Turn
Is antisemitism the next chapter of “America First”? Many see the appeal of antisemitic ideas among younger conservatives as a natural consequence of...
The Machine Wants to Kill Us
“There’s something very spiritually dark about the internet,” the author Paul Kingsnorth tells Ross Douthat in this week’s episode of “Interesting Tim...
Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
Is society too feminine or not feminine enough? Two conservative writers, Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant, disagree on the answer. They join...
Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
Does Zohran Mamdani’s win mean a new dawn for the Democratic Party? Not exactly, Ross Douthat argues. In this mini-episode of “Interesting Times,” Ros...
What Palantir Sees
Who’s afraid of Palantir? The company’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, joins Ross Douthat for a conversation about what the shadowy company a...
Taylor Swift’s Trad Turn
Is Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” the soundtrack for the Trump era? Self-titled “conservative dad” Ross Douthat thinks so, and explains why i...
We Can Survive an A.I. Bust
Is the artificial intelligence revolution keeping the entire economy afloat? This week on “Interesting Times,” Ross talks with Jason Furman, an econom...
Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Need You to Like Her
Justice Amy Coney Barrett is playing the long game. In this week’s “Interesting Times,” she walks us through the current court’s most controversial ru...
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.
Evangelical pastor and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Doug Wilson has been preaching for decades that America needs to reclaim its Puritan past...