Assessing how Democratic Senate candidates are presenting themselves as moderates.
Ross Douthat
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Columnist and author writing on politics, religion and culture, who is leaving The New York Times after 17 years to become a correspondent on CBS News' 60 Minutes. His books include Privilege, Grand New Party (with Reihan Salam), Bad Religion, The Decadent Society, The Deep Places and Believe. Hosts Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, the New York Times Opinion podcast. Appears as a guest on The Ezra Klein Show, Conversations with Tyler, Plain English with Derek Thompson, EconTalk and The Daily.
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Ross Douthat writes Reactions , hosts Interesting Times with Ross Douthat , hosts The Ezra Klein Show , hosts Hard Fork (NYT) , writes Central Air , writes The Free Press , writes Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning , writes Wisdom of Crowds , writes Call Me Back - with Dan Senor and writes Richard Hanania's Newsletter . They have also been a guest on Conversations with Tyler (3 times) , Plain English with Derek Thompson (2 times) , The Daily (NYT) (2 times) , EconTalk , Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast , Templeton Ideas Podcast and Within Reason . They also write for The Falcon's Children on Substack.
Recently: “Ross Douthat: How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse” on The Free Press (October 2026); “Ross Douthat: I’m Writing a Column for The Free Press” on The Free Press (October 2026); “How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?” on Interesting Times with Ross Douthat (September 2026); “Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview” on The Ezra Klein Show (August 2026); “Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men” on Interesting Times with Ross Douthat (August 2026); “#163 Religion is an Obligation - Ross Douthat” on Within Reason (July 2026).
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Assessing how Democratic Senate candidates are presenting themselves as moderates.