Dear readers,
We’re really excited to have Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times’s “Interesting Times” podcast, join us for this week’s show. On this week’s agenda:
Giving the Epstein Files the Washington Read
A sincere effort to learn something useful from this Epstein experience
Men behaving badly, forever
How Ross got his job as the official explainer of Trumpism to liberal America
Is he qualified?
Kanye for New Haven
Which presidents were worse than Joe Biden? And be specific
Mental note to do a segment on a future show about the underrated virtues of Jimmy Carter
Ross tells us to pay more attention to AI
This requires talking about Moltbook, sorry
How to think about efforts to build the AI god if you already believe in God
Peter Thiel and his “over-indexing” on his Greta Thunberg theory of the Antichrist
Aren’t religious conservatives getting weirdly comfortable with a heresy here?
No Ben, not sodomy
We hope you enjoy the episode! We’d love to hear any of your thoughts or responses in the comments below.
Thanks for listening,
Josh
