Ross Douthat
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Ross Douthat is a columnist and author known for his insightful commentary on politics and culture. This interview reveals his strategic thinking as he navigates complex issues, emphasizing the need for a coherent vision in the face of institutional disillusionment.
“That are not available through the experience of sort of expert consensus and so on. And these, we were very much outside the mainstream during my childhood.”
“Be there waiting for the Butlerian jihad of the future, the people who laughed are dune readers and everyone else is not. It's important at some point in every public event to separate the dune readers from the non-dune readers.”
“I think it's bad for human imagination, for normal relationships, for appreciating reality as it actually exists. I think the reason we may not see costs is that it has a sort of numbing effect in certain ways on human behavior, that it doesn't necessarily lead to sort of egregious acting out of the kind that leads to crime waves or polit…”
“And it's more personal and psychological. I mean, it is the characters on the wire are fascinating, but they are, when you meet them, you sort of know who they are. It is Dickensian in that sense, the sort of endless jokes about the Dickensian element on the wire are right.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 210 - Ross Douthat
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