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In this episode of Thinking Out Loud, Nathan & Cameron dive into a nuanced theological discussion on Ross Douthat's latest book Believe, exploring the provocative idea that religion—even in its broadest form—can serve as a legitimate and vital stepping stone toward Christianity. They examine Douthat's arguments through the lens of current cultural disinterest in organized faith, C.S. Lewis's concept of “mere Christianity,” and spiritual seekers like Simone Weil and David Foster Wallace. Is structured religion still the best place to begin a sincere search for truth in the modern age? Join them as they wrestle with these questions, challenge each other, and consider whether religion is a crutch, a catalyst, or a compass in a post-Christian world. Perfect for Christians craving thoughtful, biblically grounded commentary on contemporary spiritual issues.DONATE LINK: https://toltogether.com/donate BOOK A SPEAKER: https://toltogether.com/book-a-speakerJOIN TOL CONNECT: https://toltogether.com/tol-connect TOL Connect is an online forum where TOL listeners can continue the conversation begun on the podcast.

Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose their health insurance— or how much they'd be spiking the deficit with their highly risky and big, ugly turd of a bill. And they don't care because they're cosmically committed to stopping the government from making rich people pay for healthcare for people who aren't. Plus, Dem leaders have an age culture problem, environmental groups are stuck in a Ralph Nader time-warp, and the danger of radical politics and supporting Hamas hits home on the streets of DC. Jonathan Chait joins join Tim Miller. show notes Jon's new piece on the House GOP bill (gift) Jonathan Cohn on the proposed Medicaid work requirements Tim and Patrick Gaspard on Trump's lies about South Africa Jon's piece on John Fetterman (gift) Jon on Trump's immoral foreign policy (gift) Douthat interviewing JD Vance *Join Tim, Sarah and Crooked's Jon Lovett for a FREE ANDRY live show and fundraiser June 6

Host Geoff Holsclaw engages with New York Times columnist and author Ross Douthat. They discuss the enduring relevance and shifting perceptions of religion in a scientific and secular age, driven by Douthat's book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. The conversation navigates the historical impact of new atheism, the existential malaise in youth culture, and a generational gap in religious knowledge. Douthat elaborates on his rationale for advocating religion not just for its therapeutic or social benefits but also for its intellectual robustness. Topics covered include the persistence of supernatural experiences, the case for commitment to established religions, and the importance of community and institutional structure in religious life. Douthat also shares his personal journey through various Christian traditions, culminating in his commitment to Catholicism. The episode concludes with insights into how suffering and chronic illness have deepened Douthat's faith and understanding of God's providence.Stay Connected: Check out our Attaching to God 6-Week Learning Cohort. Join the Embodied Faith community to stay connected and get posts, episodes, & resources. Support the podcast with a one-time or regular gift (to keep this ad-free without breaking the Holsclaw's bank).

I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It's about religion and belief – at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.My guest and I come from very different perspectives. Ross Douthat is a Catholic conservative, who wrote a book called “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” I'm a … Californian. But I think everyone would enjoy this conversation — believers, skeptics and seekers alike.Some questions touched on: Is the Trump administration Christian or pagan? How do Christian Trump supporters reconcile the cruelties of this administration with their faith? Can religious experiences be explained by misfiring neurons? Should organized religions embrace psychedelics? Can mystery provide more comfort than certainty?And if you do enjoy this episode, be sure to check out Douthat's new New York Times Opinion Audio show “Interesting Times,” available wherever you get your podcasts, and on YouTube.Mentioned:Interesting Times with Ross Douthat“Donald Trump, Man of Destiny” by Ross DouthatLiving with a Wild God by Barbara EhrenreichBook Recommendations:Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen BarrAfter by Bruce GreysonMind and Cosmos by Thomas NagelThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.htmlThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Aman Sahota and Efim Shapiro. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Marina King, Jan Kobal, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this episode of Personally Speaking Msgr. Jim Lisante is joined by renowned NY Times Columnist and acclaimed author Ross Douthat. Ross' latest book is called, “Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious”. His book is for everyone, from those who are devoutly religious, to those who are agnostic, and everyone in between. Ross shares his own personal faith journey and his embrace of the Catholic faith.Support the show

How can we explain the world's underlying order? How does consciousness emerge? And why do people from such different cultures have such similar near-death experiences? Listen as Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, argues that these and other unanswerable questions underscore his argument for the rationality of religious belief. He and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss Douthat's reasons for embracing faith with confidence, why science only bolsters his belief, and why he thinks that more religion would be a good thing for society.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.liveIn 2012, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat published Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, a book about how mainstream American religion was devolving into the prosperity gospel, superstitious cults and other forms of heterodox faith. Thirteen years later, the American religious landscape has changed, and Ross wrote a new book tackling a much more basic question: why you should be religious at all. He joins Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid to discuss that book, which is titled Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.This new book, Douthat says, “assumes a highly individualist culture” as its audience. This individualist culture is one where each person thinks of whether to believe in a god as a highly personal choice. The culture as a whole can no longer support any one person's faith. The biggest individual challenge to Douthat's thesis in this episode comes from Damir, who says: “I feel most religious people try to get through … happiness and/or meaning. I am not thirsting for those. I am not hungry for them. I feel I'm ok.” Douthat responds by posing a hypothetical: “Suppose you die and you're summoned before the judgment throne of God and God says, ‘Seems like were friendly for arguments for being religious, you weren't one hundred percent convinced, but still: why didn't you go to church?'” Douthat argues that, while he himself is believing Catholic, there are nevertheless many “commonalities of religious experience. [World religions] are not all saying the same thing, but they are real and suggest something.” This makes common ground with Shadi who, as a Muslim, disagrees with Douthat about the divinity of Christ, but who, as a believer, agrees with Douthat that we should all be religious.In our bonus section for paid subscribers, Damir, Shadi and Ross talk about the philosophy of mind; whether AI will ever be conscious; what consciousness is for; whether Daniel Dennett is in hell; and why being lukewarm about whether God exists is a bad idea.Required Reading and Listening:* Ross Douthat, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious (Amazon). * Damir Marusic, “A Lost Sense of Wonder” (WoC). * Nathan Beacom, “The Art of Hiking” (WoC). * John Lennon, “Imagine” (YouTube). * Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Amazon). * Revelation 3:16: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth” (King James Version). This post is part of our collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Governance and Markets.Free preview video:Full video for paid subscribers below:

In a world that often feels fragmented, uncertain, and spiritually empty, what if belief isn't just possible - but essential? Today, I'm sitting down with Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and one of our most nuanced cultural thinkers, to explore a radical proposition: Why everyone should be religious in an age of growing skepticism. We're going beyond the debates of belief versus non-belief. This conversation dives into the mysteries at the heart of human experience - from quantum physics that suggests the universe might be more intentional than we thought, to near-death experiences that challenge everything we understand about consciousness. Douthat brings a provocative, intellectually rigorous perspective that defies easy categorization. We'll explore how ancient spiritual wisdom might hold profound answers for our hyper-individualized, technology-driven world. How can religious thinking help us navigate complexity, find meaning, and reconnect with something larger than ourselves? Expect surprises. We'll uncover scientific discoveries that point toward design, discuss supernatural experiences that defy materialist explanations, and wrestle with life's deepest questions. Whether you're a committed believer, a curious skeptic, or someone feeling spiritually lost, this episode promises to expand your understanding and offer a message of hope. We're not just talking about belief - we're reimagining what it means to be human in a mysterious universe. Ross Douthat is a columnist for The New York Times op-ed page. He is the author of Believe, The Deep Places, The Decadent Society, To Change The Church, Privilege, and Grand New Party. Before joining the Times he was a senior editor for The Atlantic. He is the film critic for National Review, and he has appeared regularly on television, including Charlie Rose, PBS Newshour, and Real Time with Bill Maher.Ross' Book:BelieveRoss' Recommendation:SeveranceSubscribe to Our Substack: Shifting CultureConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@allnations.usGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky or YouTubeConsider Giving to the podcast and to the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link belowEmail jjohnson@allnations.us, so we can get your creative project off the ground! Support the show

As President Trump wages tariff wars around the world and upends the U.S. alliance with Ukraine, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and Margaret Hoover discuss the president's actions, his address to Congress, and the future of the GOP.While Douthat defends the Trump administration's goal of achieving an armistice in Ukraine and convincing Europe to take on greater responsibility, he says that calling Zelensky a dictator “is not a good plan.” He also suggests a lasting peace will depend on whether Putin negotiates in good faith and whether the U.S. and Europe can provide a credible security guarantee.Douthat explains why tariffs appeal to Trump, but he says the way the administration has approached threatening and imposing them on allies like Mexico and Canada does not amount to a “coherent, long-term policy plan.”Douthat also talks about his new book on The New York Times bestseller list, “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious." He reflects on signs of growing openness to religion in society, the mystical side of UFO culture, and the stumbling blocks that deter some people from embracing faith. The devout Catholic also comments on the state of the Catholic Church as Pope Francis' health declines.Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by Robert Granieri, Vanessa and Henry Cornell, The Fairweather Foundation, Peter and Mark Kalikow, Cliff and Laurel Asness, The Meadowlark Foundation, Charles R. Schwab, Damon Button, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, The Philip I Kent Foundation, Annie Lamont through The Lamont Family Fund, Cheryl Cohen Effron and Blair Effron, and Al and Kathy Hubbard. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc. 

In his new book Believe, NY Times correspondent Ross Douthat offers a blueprint for thinking one's way from doubt to belief. Douthat argues that religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it, illuminates the mystery of consciousness, and explains the persistent reality of encounters with the supernatural. On Monday, March 3, at 6:30 PM, Columbia's Earl Hall Center for Religious Life and the Morningside Institute hosted Ross Douthat for a conversation with one of America's most respected commentators on religion and public life. The event was held in-person at Faculty House and was streamed online.For more information about upcoming events, please visit https://www.morningsideinstitute.org.

A few weeks ago, this podcast featured a conversation between Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, moderated by Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver. The subject was Douthat's new book, Believe, a work of monotheistic apologetics, which argues that everyone should be religious. Among the many topics discussed was the remarkable revival of spiritual energy in America. At present we are living through a kind of religious awakening, one that shares some features with the Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries, despite some fundamental differences. Previous surges in American religious life were, to put it plainly, much more conventionally Christian. This one is a great deal more complicated, and it is fractured in the same way that our culture is fractured. Some forms of Christianity are indeed growing, while many traditional Christian confessions continue to shrink. A good deal of the spiritual energy in America is not channeled into any recognizable Christian form: wellness culture, identity politics, occultism, and other phenomena have all taken on some aspects of religion, and are accorded sanctity by their devotees. This week, we turn that general question to the Jewish community, and in particular, to American Orthodox Judaism. To what extent do the trends of American religious life and American spiritual dynamics affect Orthodox communities? What are some of the sociological, communal, liturgical, and institutional changes that are taking place there? How has October 7 affected the religious consciousness of American orthodoxy? To explore these questions, Jonathan Silver speaks with Rabbi David Bashevkin, the director of education for NCSY, the youth movement of the Orthodox Union; a professor at Yeshiva University; and the founder and host of the Jewish media company and podcast, 18Forty. American Orthodoxy is itself remarkably diverse, and this conversation focuses mostly on modern or centrist Orthodox institutions, whose limits and contours Rabbi Bashevkin helps to dimension.

We partnered with the Institute for Human Ecology for a conversation between Dr. Joseph Capizzi, the first ever lay Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, and The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. Our panelists discussed the “democratization of theology” facilitated by new media and parallel trends. Drawing from Douthat's latest book, Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious, the conversation highlighted the changes in the religious landscape and present opportunities for a religious revival. Support the show

NYT columnist Ross Douthat joins me to discuss his new book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. We explore why skeptics and non-believers should consider religious faith, examining evidence from science, philosophy, and human experience. Douthat makes the case that religious belief is not only reasonable but arguably obligatory for thinking people in our age.Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Believe-Why-Everyone-Should-Religious-ebook/dp/B0D8VNGWKL/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/

Ross Douthat occupies one of the most fascinating roles in the religious life of the American public. He is a serious Christian, a devout Catholic, a learned student of American religious history, and a perspicacious observer of the spiritual drives that are an inescapable aspect of the human condition. But what makes his role so fascinating is that he is also an opinion columnist at the New York Times. And readers of the New York Times tend to be considerably less religious, and if religious, then considerably less traditional in their religious habits and beliefs, than Douthat. So there are times when he stands on the fault line between two different epistemological universes, called on to explain the world of faith to progressive America.   In a couple of weeks he will publish Believe, a new book that takes notice of the longing for spiritual transcendence among non-religious Americans, people who look to exercise regimens, or astrology, or claims of extraterrestrial life to engage in a kind of spiritual play. To them, Believe has an arresting argument, which is that in light of what we now know about the universe, the claims of religion—not of occult and supernatural paganism but traditional, monotheistic religion—are a great deal more persuasive. Believe is a form of contemporary, monotheistic apologetics.   Earlier this week, Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver hosted Ross Douthat together with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik for a keynote discussion at the Redstone Leadership Forum. Rabbi Soloveichik is the leader of Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, and the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. The Redstone Leadership Forum is Tikvah's flagship gathering of some 100 student delegates from our college chapters at over 30 campuses.   This week, we bring you the recording from that live event.

Why everyone should be religious. Find us on Youtube. What makes religion worth pursuing in a hypersecularized world? New York Times columnist Ross Douthat explores this question in his forthcoming book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. Today, Mike Cosper sits down with Douthat for a conversation about the elemental human impulse toward belief and why, especially in this modern age, it's worth pausing to consider it.   GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: We want to hear your COVID-19 reflection. Send a written response or voice memo here. Grab some Bulletin merch! Find us on YouTube. Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUEST:  Ross Douthat has been a New York Times opinion columnist since April 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of the forthcoming Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. He is the film critic for National Review. ABOUT THE BULLETIN: The Bulletin is a weekly (and sometimes more!) current events show from Christianity Today hosted and moderated by Clarissa Moll, with senior commentary from Russell Moore (Christianity Today's editor in chief) and Mike Cosper (director, CT Media). Each week, the show explores current events and breaking news and shares a Christian perspective on issues that are shaping our world. We also offer special one-on-one conversations with writers, artists, and thought leaders whose impact on the world brings important significance to a Christian worldview, like Bono, Sharon McMahon, Harrison Scott Key, Frank Bruni, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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“A certain degree of faith in Providence and a certain degree of confidence in America … May that combination not be overwhelmed by some disaster.” (New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, offering a blessing for election season) Contemporary political debate and commentary operates from deeply moral sources. People tend to vote their conscience. Our values and ideals, our sense of right and wrong, and our beliefs about what contributes or detracts from the common good often inform our politics. And across the political spectrum, Americans of all stripes exercise their citizenship and public engagement through a religious faith that grounds it all. So, what better space to explore this conjunction of faith, morality, and political life than The New York Times Opinion section? Today on the show, Ross Douthat joins Mark Labberton to discuss how his faith and theological commitments ground his moral and political perspectives. Douthat joined The New York Times as an Opinion columnist in 2009, and regularly appears on the weekly Opinion podcast, “Matter of Opinion.” He's also a film critic for National Review and was previously senior editor at The Atlantic. In this episode, they discuss the spiritual and political background of Douthat's youth and how Roman Catholic Christianity grounded his religious and political views; the challenges for how the Catholic Church and its moral teachings can adapt to contemporary culture; how faith and morality can speak to our dynamic political moment during the 2024 election season; and finally Ross's hope and faith in divine providence met with confidence in America's resilience and capacity for good. About Ross Douthat Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Opinion columnist in 2009, and regularly appears on the weekly Opinion podcast, “Matter of Opinion.” He's also a film critic for National Review. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of several books, including The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (2021), The Decadent Society (2020), To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism (2018), Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012); Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (2005), and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (2008). His newest book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, will be published in early 2025. Show Notes   Ross Douthat's spiritual background as Episcopalian, Pentecostal-Evangelical, and eventually Roman Catholic   Our “spiritually haunted environment”   How Catholicism has changed from Pope John Paul II to Pope Francis   Adapting moral teachings to contemporary challenges   “Many, many of the problems in our culture and the reasons for people's unhappiness are related to issues of sex and relationships.”   “Jesus says incredibly stringent and strenuous things in the Gospels about sex.”   “I think if the church stops having some sort of countercultural message on those issues, then it won't actually be speaking to the big challenges and derangements of our time.”   “All of the developed world is heading over this demographic cliff…”   People aren't getting married anymore. They aren't forming relationships anymore.”   Pope Francis, pastoral sensitivity, and making moral concessions to contemporary culture   Pope Francis squelching the Latin mass   Commenting on the dynamics and craziness of our political moment   “Over the course of my career, I have tried to spend a lot of time with the idea that Catholicism in particular, and I think Christianity in general, should stand a little bit outside of partisan categories.”   How the Republican Party can address the needs of the working class   Ross Douthat's views during the Trump Era   Providence and appealing to God's control   "Man proposes, and God disposes.”   “The world has grown weirder in general, in the last decade, than it was when I was in my twenties.”   Providence and freedom   Ross's thesis in The Decadent Society: “The Western world and really the whole planet was sort of stuck stagnant. We'd achieved this incredible level of wealth and technological power, we'd filled the earth and subdued it to some degree, but we were suffering from uncertainty, malaise, and ennui because we didn't know what to do next.”   Space travel and Elon Musk   Looking for help from some other power: God, Aliens, or A.I.   The unique perspective Ross Douthat brings to The New York Times   “As the world has grown weirder, I've felt a little more comfortable being weird myself, and that so far hasn't gotten me fired.”   “You know, not to brag, but yeah, I'm probably the weirdest columnist at a major American newspaper.”   Offering a blessing for the nation's experience between now and election day   “Life in the United States is an underrated good. Americans have become very pessimistic, very unhappy with each other, sometimes unhappy with themselves … And I think actually, beneath that difficult surface, America has a lot of real strengths and real resilience and American culture is better positioned, I think, than a lot of cultures around the world to navigate the next 50 to 100 years of human history. So I think that should give people some confidence.”   “A certain degree of faith in Providence and a certain degree of confidence in America.”   Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.

This episode of On Culture starts from the most recent written piece from The Embassy - Why So Serious? Here is an excerpt …As I was in the process of collecting my thoughts for this essay, I noticed a number of pieces that are noticing the same trend. In the wake of the 2016 election, there were a number of attempts to explain the Angry Right. Strangers in Their Own Land was a National Book Award finalist in 2018 and explored this phenomenon - the righteous anger of the victim and the deadly struggle to right the wrong. We see, of course, much the same thing on the left. Ross Douthat recently asked Can the Left Be Happy? - an example of a column that doesn't really match the title. Douthat is noticing what I am noticing (I swear I started to write this before I read his piece. More on this in a bit) - that many on the left, mirroring those on the right but for slightly different reasons, don't think happiness is what we should be feeling right now.The smartphone theory of increasing youth unhappiness has been especially in the news this past week, thanks to Jonathan Haidt's new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.” And it's been striking how certain critiques of Haidt's theory from the left seem to object to the idea that youth unhappiness could be anything but rational and natural.Ross Douthat - The New York Times - April 6, 2024Unhappiness is rational, natural, and … right. Again, why are you laughing at x when y is happening in the world?Kevin D. Williamson, just last week, wrote in The Dispatch a better (though longer) version of what I am trying to write here. His piece is called Humor is a Cool Medium. In it, Williamson observes,Humor requires emotional distance rather than emotional urgency, dispassionate observation rather than cheerleading and sermonizing, cool wit rather than scalding rage … When humor is instrumentalized for political purposes—when it stops being art and is degraded to the state of rhetoric—it is used for one thing only: lowering the relative status of disfavored groups.Kevin D. Williamson - The Dispatch - May 24, 2024Humor being instrumentalized for political purposes describes much of late night comedy. It stops being art because it isn't trying to be. It is used to lower the relative status of disfavored groups. One more bullet in the culture war.As I mentioned, if you look at the links below, you will notice that a number of people sensed the appropriateness of this sort of question at about the same time I did. What does that mean? I don't know - but it may be a hopeful trend.In the Wisdom book of Ecclesiastes, wrestling with the meaning of life in a world that was by every circumstantial measure (child mortality, disease, war, starvation …) much more difficult that here and now, we read -There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,a time to search and a time to give up,a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend,a time to be silent and a time to speak,a time to love and a time to hate,a time for war and a time for peace.Ecclesiastes 3:1-8There is a time to weep and to mourn and to tear. There is. We should recognize that. But there is a time to dance and embrace and laugh. The person who always laughs and the one who never does has lost perspective, has cut themselves off from at least part of reality. There is wrong in this world. Humor can help highlight it in a unique way. Laughter is good. Perpetual anger isn't a virtue. And the world has been measurably worse in almost every measurable way in almost every other time and place than here and now. It is ok to recognize and mourn and even work against what is wrong and unjust in this world. But we should not draw any moral status by the depth of our indignation. … Read the whole piece here. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe

Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally an hour...Key Insights:* A number of years ago, Brad DeLong said that it was time to “pass the baton” to “The Left”. How's that working out for us? #actually, he had said that we had passed the baton—that the absence since January 21, 2009 (or possibly January 21, 1993) of Republican negotiating partners meant that sensible centrism produced nothing—that Barack Obama had proposed John McCain's climate policy, Mitt Romney's health care policy, George H.W. Bush's entitlement-and-budget policy, Ronald Reagan's tax policy, and Gerald Ford's foreign policy, and had gotten precisely zero Republican votes for any of those. Therefore the only choice we had was to pass the baton to the Left in the hopes that they could energize the base and the disaffected to win majorities, and then offer strong support where there policies were better than the status quo.* But my major initial take was that the major task was to resurrect a sensible center-right, in which I wished the Niskanen Center good luck, but was not optimistic.* But everyone heard “Brad DeLong says neoliberals should ‘bend the knee'” to THE LEFT…* That is interesting…* Should neoliberals bend the knee?* How has the left been doing with its baton? Not well at all, for anyone who defines “THE LEFT” to consist of former Bernie staffers who regard Elizabeth Warren as a neoliberal sellout.* It has, once again, never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. * But the conditions that required passing the baton to the left—High Mitch McConnellism, Republican unity saying “NO!” to everything by every Republican to make the Black president look like a weak failure—no longer hold.* And the principal adversaries to good governance and a bright American future are reactionary theocrats, neofascist grifters, and true-believer right-neoliberals to the right and cost-disease socialists to the left.* But in the middle, made up of ex-left-neoliberals and nearly all other right-thinking Americans, are we supply-side progressives.* Instead, there is a governing coalition, in the Senate, composed of 70 senators, 50 Democrats and 20 Republicans, from Bernie Sanders through J.D. Vance—a supply-side progressive or supply-side Americanist coalition.* It is therefore time to snatch the baton back, and give it to the supply-side progressivist policy-politics core, and then grab as many people to run alongside that core in the race as we possibly can.* The Niskanen Center cannot be at the heart of the supply-side progressivist agenda because they are incrementalists and critics by nature.* The principal business of “Leftist” activists over the past five years really has been and continues to be to try to grease the skids for the return of neofascism—just as the principal business of Ralph Nader and Naderites in 2000 was to grease the skids for upper-class tax cuts, catastrophic financial deregulation, and forever wars.* &, as always, HEXAPODIA!References:* Beauchamp, Zack. 2019. "A Clinton-Era Centrist Democrat Explains Why It's Time to Give Democratic Socialists a Chance." Vox. March 4, 2019. .* Black, Bill. 2019. "Brad DeLong's Stunning Concession: Neoliberals Should Pass the Baton & Let the Left Lead." Naked Capitalism. March 5. .* DeLong, J. Bradford. 2019. “David Walsh went to the Niskanen Center conference. He got hives…” Twitter. February 25. .* DeLong, J. Bradford. 2019. "Carville & Hunt: Two Old White Guys Podcast." Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality. March 11. .* DeLong, J. Bradford. 2019. "I Said 'Pass the Baton' to Those Further Left Than I, Not 'Bend the Knee.'" Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality. March 27. .* Elmaazi, Mohamed. 2019. "Famous Neoliberal Economist Says Centrism Has Failed." The Canary. March 15, 2019. .* O'Reilly, Timothy. 2019. "This Interview with Brad DeLong is Very Compelling." LinkedIn. .* Douthat, Ross. 2019. "What's Left of the Center-Left?" New York Times. March 5. .* Drum, Kevin. 2019. "A Neoliberal Says It's Time for Neoliberals to Pack It In." Mother Jones. March 5. .* Hundt, Reed, Brad DeLong, & Joshua Cohen. 2019."Neoliberalism and Its Discontents." Commonwealth Club. March 5. .* Konczal, Mike. 2019. "The Failures of Neoliberalism Are Bigger Than Politics." Roosevelt Institute. March 5. .&* Vinge, Vernor. 1999. A Deepness in the Sky. New York: Tor Books. . Get full access to Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality at braddelong.substack.com/subscribe

Trump wins voters who don't read The New York Times or listen to The Bulwark Podcast, and elite opposition may not be enough to defeat him. Ross Douthat joins Tim Miller for a spirited debate about what the conservative movement gave away in sacrifice to Trump on world leadership, abortion, and democracy. show notes: Douthat's recent piece on the pro-life movement **Join Sarah, Tim and JVL  for a Bulwark Live event in Philly on May 1, and May 15 in D.C. with the George Conway. For information and tickets head to TheBulwark.com/events

Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not a guide to what is good. The idea that the natural world is to be worshiped can take many forms. Douthat and Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts discuss these forms, ranging from Wordsworthian spiritual experiences in a national park, to worshiping ancestral or local gods, to civic religions of left and right, to tarot card reading, to affirming the Darwinian struggle for existence as a source of moral guidance.  They discuss varying understandings of natural law, talk about euthanasia, and revisit Fight Club. Then they discuss whether Darwinism is compatible with the traditional idea of the Fall, and whether we should accept the teaching that human beings are made to not just live in harmony with the natural world but to transcend it.

Lacey returns to the podcast to share her journey since giving birth. Join us as she Lacey shares her pregnancy story and her commitment to self-improvement postpartum, from embracing the simplicity of nice pajamas to the transformative power of regular therapy sessions. You can follow Lacey @wearetheglittergospel on Instagram.Follow Previa Alliance!Previa Alliance (@previa.alliance) • Instagram photos and videosPrevia Alliance Podcast (@previapodcast) • Instagram photos and videosKeep the questions coming by sending them to info@previaalliance.com or DM us on Instagram!

In this episode, Dr. Benson discusses Ross Douthat's recent New York Times op-ed 'Where Does Religion Come From?,' offers his take on where Douthat goes wrong, and gives his own take on the question. 

Christopher Ray Douthat was a 24 year old from Roanoke, Virginia. He was a roofer and father of twins. On October 25, 2013, Christopher was due to meet a female friend at a grocery store at 5pm. In fact, he called her to say he was already there. However, when she arrived, Christopher could not be found. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missingchristopherdouthat Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-ray-douthat NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/25330?nav Map Analysis: https://youtu.be/EozBSaSeid8 Article: https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/crime/8-years-later-family-of-missing-franklin-county-man-still-searching-for-answers/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Christopher Douthat, please contact the Virginia State Police Division Six Headquarters at (540) 375-9500. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missingchristopherdouthat Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-ray-douthat NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/25330?nav Map Analysis: https://youtu.be/EozBSaSeid8 Article: https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/crime/8-years-later-family-of-missing-franklin-county-man-still-searching-for-answers/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Christopher Douthat, please contact the Virginia State Police Division Six Headquarters at (540) 375-9500. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Decadence isn't a word most of us use on a daily basis, and yet author and columnist Ross Douthat believes that it perfectly captures the state of a largely stagnant and sclerotic American culture.In his book, The Decadent Society, Douthat explores both the meaning of decadence and the trajectory that led us there. But in addition to diagnosing our state of cultural stagnation, he points with great hope toward societal renewal:“I think the escape from decadence is probably a dynamic thing where technology, politics, and religion are all sort of operating together, but it's hard to imagine it happening without a really strong religious element within it.” - Ross DouthatThis conversation is being released for the first time as part of our podcast series on the Challenges of Modernity, and we hope you'll both enjoy it and that it provokes you to consider those paths toward societal renewal that give Douthat hope.This podcast is an edited version of a conversation recorded in 2020. Learn more about Ross Douthat.Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:The Decadent Society: How we Became Victims of our Own Success, by Ross DouthatFrom Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jacques BarzunHatchet, by Gary PaulsenSteven PinkerBrave New World, by Alduous HuxleyRobert GordonKarl MarxRod DreherRob BellJames PikePope FrancisPeter ThielMartin LutherIgnatius of LoyolaWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldRelated Trinity Forum Readings:A Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassCity of God by St. Augustine of HippoChildren of Light and Children of Darkness by Reinhold NiebuhrLetter from a Birmingham Jail by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.Brave New World, by Alduous HuxleyRelated Conversations:Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval LevinThe Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent BacoteThe Decadent Society with Ross DouthatScience, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis CollinsBeyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene RiversJustice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac PierHealing a Divided Culture with Arthur BrooksAfter Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan HaidtTrust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie KristianHope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt ThompsonTo listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum SocietySpecial thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib hosts Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery and The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. A columnist at The New York Times, often on political and social topics, Douthat also reviews movies for National Review. Today Razib talks to him about a topic that is a bit off the beaten path: why is genre fiction, and fantasy literature, still relevant today, and how, in the last generation, did it break out of its cultural ghetto? First, Douthat addresses the massive role that J. R. R. Tolkien's works have had on the field, how most of modern fantasy is either an imitation of his works or a response to them, and the creative limitations that that circumstance imposes. Razib and Douthat then discuss the various shifts in the genre style over the last 20 years, toward a more gritty and morally ambiguous style exemplified by George R. R. Martin, and the cultural breakthrough of Game of Thrones in the 2010's. Douthat avers that in some ways genre has come into its own, with the decline in the cultural status of realistic fiction and drama, and the ascension of “comic book movies.” While Razib believes that Marvel films are arguably fantasy, Douthat disagrees, believing their contemporary settings disqualify them. They also address whether fantasy is actually simply the channeling of premodern narrative styles that go back to the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Iliad. They address the somewhat exceptional success of Game of Thrones on television and the failure of Amazon's Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time. Finally, Douthat talks about his unpublished fantasy novel, The Falcon's Children. 

Rob joins me to talk about Succession, through the penultimate episode of the series.There are spoilers below, and throughout our conversation.We discuss Ross Douthat's recent piece on the series, and where I agree and disagree with him. We almost have inverse views on the lessons of the show, where Douthat says public opinion has been written out of it, while I think that the trend has been for mass sentiment and larger forces to intrude more on the personal struggles of the Roy family. Perhaps the point is that elites are in control as long as they're strong and competent, like Logan clearly was, but not when they're weak and divided, as are his children?In the end, I think Shiv taking over makes the most sense. She was always brushed aside by her father due to his sexism, and it would be appropriate for the show to end with the triumph of the girlboss, while she's pregnant and with the entirety of her womanhood on display, no less. Rob and I also discuss the possibility of Tom ending up running the empire with Shiv as the power behind the throne. We're both fascinated by the Jeryd Mencken character. Rob and I agree that a guy like that couldn't be a plausible presidential candidate in real life. We spend a lot of time talking about what branch of the “dissident right” he represents. Is he supposed to be a Catholic traditionalist, a Nietzschean, a white nationalist, or some combination thereof? This leads me to talk about my idea of there being deep and overlooked contradictions within the American far right. Speaking of Nietzsche, we both loved Kendall's speech, which was an unapologetic defense of the man of action. While the two big eulogies were framed as giving “both sides” regarding the life of Logan, they can be seen as giving both sides of a debate that goes to fundamental questions of our political divide. How should we understand the past? Do we dwell on its flaws, and those of individuals and institutions that build great things, or do we celebrate what humanity has been able to accomplish despite the costs?Listen here, or watch us on YouTube. LinksMe and Rob on Succession: S1-S3, S4:E1, and S4: Ep 2-4Marc Andreessen on the Breaking Bad universe, the end of Better Call Saul (with Chris Nicholson), and The Shield (with Rob)Douthat on SuccessionMe on The Biomechanics of Trumpism Get full access to Richard Hanania's Newsletter at www.richardhanania.com/subscribe

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: While appearing on CNN with Michael Smerconish, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he does not support allowing biological males to compete in women's sports. ABC News has conceded that they edited an interview they conducted with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., removing portions of the conversation where he expressed skepticism towards COVID-19 vaccinations. Rich Lowry of National Review writes: “ABC News isn't a government entity and can exercise whatever editorial judgment it pleases. But the spirit of the exercise was in keeping with censorship, and it reflected how the press and social-media platforms operated during the height of the pandemic when they were the self-appointed arbiters of Truth. This is a mistake in editorial judgment for several reasons.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/must-rfk-jr-be-censored/ Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed over $1 billion globally. Ross Douthat of National Review and The New York Times writes that the movie's key to success was desperate parents searching for a fun movie without political messaging. You can read Douthat's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/05/15/desperate-parents-made-the-mario-movie-a-success/

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/01/2023): 3:05pm- In a bombshell report featured in The Wall Street Journal, journalists Khadeeja Safdar and David Benoit document meetings that several high-level officials scheduled with Jeffery Epstein—even after he had become a convicted sex offender. Among those referenced in Epstein's private calendar: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns, former White House Counsel for the Obama Administration Kathryn Ruemmler, Bard College President Leon Botstein, and far-left M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky. Safdar and Benoit write, “When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Mr. Chomsky replied in an email: ‘First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone's. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.'” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff?mod=hp_lead_pos7 3:30pm- Why were high ranking government officials, and members of academia, willing to meet with Epstein—specifically the CIA Director? 3:45pm- Former President Donald Trump will participate in a CNN Presidential Town Hall on May 10th in New Hampshire. The event will be hosted by Kaitlan Collins and is scheduled to air at 9pm ET. 3:50pm- Geoffrey Hinton, an engineer who is widely regarded as a pioneer in artificial intelligence development, has decided to leave his job at Google and is now publicly warning that A.I. could cause serious harm. 4:05pm- While appearing on CNN with Michael Smerconish, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he does not support allowing biological males to compete in women's sports. 4:10pm- ABC News has conceded that they edited an interview they conducted with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., removing portions of the conversation where he expressed skepticism towards COVID-19 vaccinations. Rich Lowry of National Review writes: “ABC News isn't a government entity and can exercise whatever editorial judgment it pleases. But the spirit of the exercise was in keeping with censorship, and it reflected how the press and social-media platforms operated during the height of the pandemic when they were the self-appointed arbiters of Truth. This is a mistake in editorial judgment for several reasons.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/must-rfk-jr-be-censored/ 4:40pm- Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed over $1 billion globally. Ross Douthat of National Review and The New York Times writes that the movie's key to success was desperate parents searching for a fun movie without political messaging. You can read Douthat's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/05/15/desperate-parents-made-the-mario-movie-a-success/ 5:05pm- The Drive at 5: According to The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, the Biden Administration is seeking to implement a new rule which “will raise mortgage fees for borrowers with good credit to subsidize higher-risk borrowers. Under the rule, which goes into effect May 1, home buyers with a good credit score over 680 will pay about $40 more each month on a $400,000 loan, and upward depending on the size of the loan. Those who make down payments of 20% on their homes will pay the highest fees. Those payments will then be used to subsidize higher-risk borrowers through lower fees.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/upside-down-mortgage-policy-212fd736 5:15pm- Jeff Zymeri of National Review writes, “[t]he Supreme Court agreed to hear Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a case which could see an end to Chevron deference, in which courts defer to a federal agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute.” Could this potentially reduce the executive branch's growing authority and restore power to Congress? You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-case-that-could-spell-the-end-of-judicial-deference-to-federal-agencies/ 5:40pm- On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk appeared on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. During the interview, Musk emphasized the necessity for respecting free speech—arguing: “The thing about censorship is, that for those who would advocate for it, just remember, at some point it will be turned on you.” 5:45pm- On Monday, Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, attended a court hearing related to child support payments in an ongoing Arkansas paternity case. Could this case inadvertently shine light on how Hunter earns money? 6:05pm- According to a report from Dan Alexander of New Jersey's 101.5, there is potentially new evidence in the shooting death of New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwomfour. 6:15pm- On ABC's This Week, host Martha Raddatz traveled to Pennsylvania where she spoke with Philadelphians and college students about the 2024 presidential election. One theme seemed to reoccur repeatedly: no one was excited to vote for President Joe Biden. 6:20pm- A pair of social media influencers with a combined 1 million followers on TikTok are targeting younger audiences and espousing Democrat talking points, though they have denied any official affiliation with any political organization. Political commentator Greg Price revealed their claim might not be entirely true, though—and that it appears Harry Sisson and Chris Mowry are both being indirectly paid by the Democratic National Committee to produce political content. 6:35pm- While appearing on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attempted to redefine what it means to have a “secure border”—bizarrely explaining, “it's maximizing resources we have available to us to deliver the most effective results.” 6:40pm- President Joe Biden mispronounces Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name at a White House event on Monday.

Zdá sa, že západný svet je dnes v kríze. Pod všetkým tým šialenstvom sociálnych médií a politikou v štýle reality šou je však skrytá hlbšia skutočnosť: nechávame sa unášať prúdom, zacyklili sme sa v opakovaní a ocitli sme sa v slepej uličke. Kniha Dekadentná spoločnosť hovorí o tom, čo sa stane, keď bohatá a mocná spoločnosť prestane napredovať – o tom, ako kombinácia bohatstva a technologickej zdatnosti spolu s ekonomickou stagnáciou, patovou situáciou, kultúrnym vyčerpaním a demografickým poklesom vytvárajú zvláštny druh „udržateľnej dekadencie“ , civilizačnú ospanlivosť, ktorá môže trvať dlhšie, než si myslíme. Ross Douthat tvrdí, že nespokojnosť a zmätok dneška sú do veľkej miery odrazom pocitu márnosti a sklamania, pocitu, že budúcnosť nenaplnila dané sľuby, všetky hranice sa uzavreli a cesty vpred vedú len do hrobu. Obávame sa katastrofy, ale istým spôsobom po nej aj túžime. Alternatívou je totiž prijať skutočnosť, že sme trvalo dekadentní: starneme, spohodlneli sme a zasekli sa, odstrihli sme sa od minulosti a stratili vieru v budúcnosť, nezaujímajú nás ani spomienky, ani ambície. Čakáme na nejakú záchrannú inováciu alebo zjavenie a pritom vedno starneme v žiarivom svetle drobných obrazoviek. Douthat napráva aj optimistov, podľa ktorých sme čoraz bohatší a šťastnejší, aj pesimistov, ktorí čochvíľa očakávajú kolaps. Stanovuje diagnózu stavu modernej spoločnosti: ako sme sa sem dostali, ako dlho môže trvať vek frustrácie a akým spôsobom, či renesanciou, alebo katastrofou, sa naša dekadencia môže napokon skončiť.

On this episode, New York Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat tells Russell Moore where he's wrong on Catholicism and American culture. Kind of. Douthat and Moore consider what it looks like for Christians to engage civically without surrendering to the relentless urgency of the political cycle. They discuss the Roman Catholic Church and what's happening at the intersection of religion, American culture, and world culture. They have a rich discussion of Douthat's religious upbringing, corruption in religious hierarchies, and when Martin Luther did (and didn't) have a point. They talk about Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis, the insufficiency of punditry, and whether or not America is a post-Christian nation. Their discussion plays by the "Tell Me Where I'm Wrong" rules: Moore is only allowed to ask questions that seek to understand the guest's point of view, and if he starts to argue, the guest is supposed to stop him. Episodes in the "Tell Me Where I'm Wrong" series include: Bill McKibben Tells Me Where I'm Wrong About Cultural Christianity Shane Claiborne Tells Me Where I'm Wrong on the Death Penalty Ligon Duncan Tells Me Where I'm Wrong on Infant Baptism Resources mentioned in this episode include: Bad Religion by Ross Douthat The Deep Places by Ross Douthat  The apologetic works of C.S. Lewis  The apologetic works of G.K. Chesterton The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther Confessions of a Catholic by Michael Novak To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism by Ross Douthat Click here for a trial membership at Christianity Today. “The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today  Executive Producers: Erik Petrik, Russell Moore, and Mike Cosper  Host: Russell Moore  Producer: Ashley Hales  Associate Producers: Abby Perry and Azurae Phelps  CT Administration: Christine Kolb  Social Media: Kate Lucky  Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens  Production Assistance: coreMEDIA Audio Engineer: Kevin Duthu  Coordinator: Beth Grabenkort  Video Producer: John Roland  Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's episode, Sarah and Whitney speak with blogger Lacey Douthat from We are the Glitter Gospel Blog.  Lacey shares her journey to motherhood and the ups and downs of infertility, IVF, miscarriage, and being in the public eye. You will not want to miss this honest and inspiring talk!Follow Lacey below!https://www.instagram.com/wearetheglittergospel/(4) The Glitter Gospel: A Life & Style Blog for the Everyday Girl | FacebookThe Glitter Gospel - Tennessee | Life, Style, and Travel Blog (theglittergospelblog.com)Lacey / Mid-size style | Beaut (@wearetheglittergospel) TikTok | Watch Lacey / Mid-size style | Beaut's Newest TikTok Videos

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by: Ray Dalio The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by: Louise Perry The War on the West by: Douglas Murray The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: Woke, Entitled, and Drunk with Power by: Mark Bauerlein Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by: Luke Burgis The Giver by: Lois Lowry The End of Eternity by: Isaac Asimov Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by: Ross Douthat

Dear Dash Hounds: Beth and Kelly realized we don't talk enough about animals. Sure there are many stories about strange ‘Mericans, but what about the monkeys in this country? Get ready for a wild episode full of surprise monkey noises, and facts about two monkey colonies that are right in our backyard. Join us this week for as much fun as a barrel of … thanks always for listening it is an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources, dude: Bartelme, Tony, and Shamira McCray. “SCDNR makes millions from company leasing Monkey Island, prompting ethical concerns.” Post and Courier, 4 March 2022, https://www.postandcourier.com/uncovered/sc-agency-rakes-in-millions-from-pharma-company-it-regulates/article_60a80662-82e1-11ec-94d8-2791d3f53dcd.html. Accessed 22 August 2022. Douthat, Strat. “The Mystery of 'Monkey Island.'” AP News, 26 October 1986, https://apnews.com/article/9bd81b54c3d30481a945c469078b2d60. Accessed 22 August 2022. “Home.” YouTube, https://www.facebook.com/RepNancyMace/videos/rep-nancy-mace-highlights-discoveries-of-monkey-island/925075514807257/?_rdr. Accessed 22 August 2022. Johnson, Steve. “Florida Silver River monkeys: Animals brought for tourism carry herpes.” USA Today, 24 February 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/24/florida-silver-river-monkeys-animals-brought-tourism-carry-herpes/4857192002/. Accessed 22 August 2022. Marshall, Carolyn. “Monkeys for Research.” New York Times, 6 April 2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/science/monkeys-for-research-much-coveted-and-hard-to-come-by.html. “Morgan Island, South Carolina.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Island,_South_Carolina. Accessed 22 August 2022. Morton, Caitlin. “Strange Facts About the U.S.” Conde Nast Traveler, 7 September 2017, https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/50-strange-but-true-facts-about-the-us. Accessed 22 August 2022. Roth, Annie. “These wild monkeys thrive in Florida—and carry a deadly virus.” National Geographic, 9 November 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species. Accessed 22 August 2022. Taub, David M. “The True Story of Monkey Island, Part 2 – Beaufort South Carolina.” The Island News, 28 February 2019, https://yourislandnews.com/the-true-story-of-monkey-island-part-2/. Accessed 22 August 2022. Wolfe, Kerry. “Morgan Island – Morgan Island, South Carolina.” Atlas Obscura, 19 January 2012, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/morgan-island. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Just a small town girl from East Tennessee who loves the way a new outfit or shade of lipstick can change your world. Lacey's married to an amazing man who the best insta-husband a girl could ask for. She has two dogs, Lemon the goldendoodle and Rosey who is a Frenchton (French Bulldog/ Boston Terrier Mix). She graduated from East Tennessee State University with a Degree in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing; so The Glitter Gospel has allowed her to find a way to not only put her degree to use, but do what she's most passionate about. You will usually find her plugging away at work, scoping out new playlists on Apple Music, snuggling with her pups, and perusing for new items to share online! The Glitter Gospel started in 2013 in hopes to create a community of women who could find a deeper love for themselves. Lacey truly believes that a tube of lipstick or a new pair of shoes can help change your world and teach you more about who you are. She's a prime example. This space isn't just about her, it's about you; the audience! She has made so many wonderful connections through blogging with both her readers and other bloggers. In a world where it often feels so lonely, this space brings women together to talk about the things we all love, but also to speak our truths and get beneath the glitter. She's had a love for fashion since she was a little girl. It's been noted that on any given day she could grace you with 4+ outfits and then require that every single one be cleaned afterward. Fashion was her escape. Blogging continues to be a journey. She's grown so much and loves being able to go back and see what she's accomplished as a fashion blogger. Lacey says she's been lucky enough to partner with some amazing brands, She's made wonderful friendships, gained an Instagram husband, and found a serious love for photography. She loves being a blogger and wouldn't trade it for the world. This is her life beneath the glitter!!

In a “New York Times” article published last month, Ross Douthat expounded on the provocative idea that the movies, as in studio films produced in Hollywood, were “over.” He was not arguing that Hollywood would ever stop producing movies for the big screen, nor that the notion of seeing a movie in a dark theater with strangers all around would ever completely disappear. Instead, he was saying that The Movies, the heart of American popular culture for over a century, has now become just another source of content in a world of seemingly endless content. He attributes this to the rise of streaming and the improved quality of what we can see on our screens at home, to a globalized market that rewards the exploitation of familiar properties over anything that might be truly innovative, and, to be fair, the expense and sheer unpleasantness of taking one's family to see a movie in an actual theater. And since most of what was on offer in the big theaters was Marvel/DC multiverse epics, other tentpole/franchise films or anything with a Roman numeral on the end of the title, is this such a big loss? Viewed through this lens, Team Vintage Sand was kind of split on the legacy of 2021 in film. Michael thought the year was one of the best in recent memory, whereas John and I were a bit more ambivalent. Of course, it my not be coincidental that Mike, as a card-carrying member of the union, got to see nearly everything this year in a real theater at SAG screenings. John and I saw a handful of films on the big screen, but most via streaming. (If this is not a coincidence, it argues strongly in favor of the primacy of the theater experience). And as you'll hear in the episode, we could not even agree on whether any 2021 films met our highest standard: that they will still be watched 25 or 50 years from now. The most likely possibility is “Drive My Car”, although John expressed some sensible reservations. What else? Spielberg's shockingly good “West Side Story” update? Maybe “Power of the Dog”, although Michael pointed out what I'm sure many felt: that the film was beautiful and technically perfect, but was so cold that very few will feel compelled to watch it again. Trier's “The Worst Person in the World” has an outside shot, but I objected that, to paraphrase Mike's oft-quoted mantra, I could not in the end love a film where I did not care about the central character (brilliant performance though it was). And “CODA”? A film that no one could dislike, with some tremendous performances, but an Afterschool Special script that, like “Green Book” or “Crash”, allowed Hollywood to pat itself on the back for being sensitive to the voices of an outsider group without really saying anything. As we did at this time last year, we frame the year in film in terms of the Oscar ceremony, which was well on its way to being one of the worst ever before you-know-what happened. We discuss the glaring omissions (Villeneuve not being nominated for “Dune”; “Passing”, which in some ways was the best film of the year, not getting nominated for anything; Hans Zimmer over Jonny Greenwood, etc.) and the occasions where they actually got it right (Hello, Ariana De Bose!). Not the greatest year, but to return to Douthat's article, he concludes with an important plea: that it is more necessary than ever to teach the history and technique of classic film as an art form, as the chance that younger generations will be exposed to these works grows smaller and smaller. I felt a sense of validation personally, as I have been doing just that with high school students for a quarter of a century. But we also felt that this highlighted why we put together Vintage Sand in the first place: our mission to open some doors and some new perspectives for our listeners. So kick back, enjoy, and hope along with us that film in 2022 will be less of the proverbial slap in the face than in the year just passed.

Mickey converts to Bob-ism ... Reassessing the ‘Is Putin Crazy?' question post-invasion ... Were we *too* understanding of Putin? ... Zelensky—to arm or not to arm? ... How will Americans grade Biden's handling of Russia-Ukraine? ... Did Russiagate make it harder for Biden to negotiate with Putin? ... The parallels between Russia-Ukraine and the ‘99 Kosovo intervention ... Biden's Supreme Court nominee ... Mickey denounces Trudeau's “couch potato fascism” ... Why Bob is queasy about this week's George Floyd verdicts ... Parrot Room preview: An Epstein associate bites the dust, Jim Pinkerton's “Mars, Meta, or Meatspace” trichotomy re: humanity's future, The New Yorker's Dean Baquet puff piece, Douthat on the “virtuals” vs “reals” divide, are the convoys coming to America?, Un-cancelling Louis CK, Putin and the psychology of status, Douglas McArthur as role model, The Expanse's jump-the-shark moment, and was Bob too mean on Twitter? ...

Christopher Douthat vanished from Vinton,VA after cashing his pay check on Oct. 25,2013. He was 24 at the time. Last year VA state police took over the investigation into what they are calling a cold case. His mom will join me to talk about Chris and his case. https://www.facebook.com/missingchristopherdouthat/

In today's episode we explore a great quote from the great theologian and priest Romano Guardini and also talk about the new book from Ross Douthat. According to Douthat, advanced societies are running out of energy and inspiration. Catholicism has been witness to this before and has often been the catalyst for radical and renewal and change. Let's discuss how the Catholic teacher can play their part in breathing life into a dying culture.

Renée Douthat, the CEO & Founder of Hatch Compliance. A specialist in the behavioral health industry. Following her experiences at other companies, she ventured on her own to start Hatch, which is a cloud-based solution designed to simplify compliance and streamline operations for Behavioral Healthcare Facilities by providing a multitude of tools and forms integrated on one same platform. She shares her successes and failures with us and gives some powerful life advice in this very honest and down-to-earth interview! Show notes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneedouthat/ https://hatchcompliance.com/ References Mentioned: Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz NAADAC: National Association for Addiction Counselors: https://www.naadac.org/ Foundations: https://www.foundationsrecoverynetwork.com/ Tara Brach, Ph.D, psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. Books: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Simon Sinek, Author Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business is a book by Charles Duhigg The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Don't forget to leave us a rating or review if you enjoyed the show! Email us at info@femaleempowermentmarket.com if you have awesome Female Founders that should be featured on our podcast and on our page!

“Decadence” is one of those familiar terms that is trivialized or rendered comic by overuse—perhaps you'd say from decadence itself. And while most people think decadent is mostly a synonym for “sumptuous,” it has a wider and deeper meaning, which is the subject of Ross Douthat's new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. Douthat, a columnist for the New York... Source

Eric Metaxas talks with Ross Douthat, New York Times op-ed columnist, about his interesting take on the decline of the American culture. Douthat brings evidence from his new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 de febrero | Nueva YorkActualización. Como veis, esta newsletter viene encabezada con el primer podcast de La Wikly. En realidad, es un nuevo programa de El juego de Megan, el podcast sobre la industria de Hollywood que grabo desde hace años con mi amigo Pablo Moloco y que a partir de ahora será parte de esta newsletter. Lo de los podcasts no se quedará solo en esto, pero basta de novedades por hoy.(No le deis a ‘Listen in podcast app’ porque es una funcionalidad que todavía tengo que arreglar).Y si queréis echarnos un cable, compartidnos entre vuestros amigos:Hola a todos. Bernie Sanders deja tiritando a sus rivales tras Nevada, Peacock teme al Coronavirus y sí, estamos en decadencia.Leer esta newsletter te llevará 12 minutos y 10 segundos.Efectivamente, ni de puta coña. Esto es La Wikly. Bienvenido. © The Des Moines Register⚡️Sanders, victoria con sabor latinoLo importante: El senador demócrata Bernie Sanders se proclamó este pasado sábado como el gran ganador de los caucus de Nevada, consolidándose como favorito en las primarias del partido demócrata de cara a los concursos de South Carolina del 29 de febrero y el Supermartes del 3 de marzo.¿Por qué gran ganador? Con la mayor parte de los precintos escrutados, Sanders tiene un 47.1% de los delegados de condado, más del doble que el siguiente candidato, el exvicepresidente Joe Biden (21.0%). Ellos dos se repartirán la mayoría de los 36 delegados nacionales que reparte Nevada.A diferencia de Iowa, donde el voto estaba mucho más repartido, la victoria de Sanders en Nevada fue tan contundente que al final ha sacado delegados de condado a lo largo y ancho de todo el estado. ¡Y eso que solo se llevó el voto popular en un 40.7%!De hecho, y espero que sepáis cómo funciona un caucus, Bernie solo se llevó el 34.3% del voto en la primera alineación en los distintos caucus celebrados en Nevada.Es decir, que la gente que votó temprano o fue a los caucus este sábado tenía a Sanders como primera opción en el 34.3% de los casos.Una vez se hizo recuento en la primera ronda de los caucus, los candidatos con menos del 15% eran considerados no-viables y los votantes que apoyaban a esos candidatos no-viables tenían, o bien que encontrar viabilidad propia o bien unirse a candidatos con viabilidad como Bernie.Al tener Bernie un apoyo muy superior al 15%, lo habitual era que su candidatura fuera viable en prácticamente todos los precintos, haciendo más fácil llevarse apoyos de aquellas otras candidaturas que no fueran viables tras la primera ronda.Eso es lo que explica que Bernie pasara de 34.4% de apoyos en la primera ronda al 40.7% en la segunda.El resto de los candidatos tuvieron bastantes más problemas para encontrar la viabilidad porque solo Sanders y Biden superaron el 15% de apoyos a nivel estatal, con lo que era difícil encontrar precintos donde las candidaturas de Buttigieg, Warren, Steyer o Klobuchar pasaran de la primera alineación de voto.Menos viabilidad, más delegados que repartir entre quienes sí la tenían. ¿Y quién la tenía casi siempre? Don Bernie Sanders. De ahí que se haya llevado el 47.1% de los delegados de condado.Coalición multiracial. Es uno de los eslóganes que más vais a leerle a la campaña de Sanders estos días después de lo visto en Nevada, el primer estado en votar en estas primarias cuyo porcentaje de población blanca no era de un 80 y pico por ciento como en Iowa o New Hampshire.Nevada tiene un electorado mucho más diverso, sobre todo entre demócratas, con lo que campañas como las de Sanders o Biden siempre argumentaron que era en estados como este donde de verdad podrían demostrar sus armas.A diferencia de sus rivales, Sanders y Biden tienen probado apoyo entre minorías. Mirad esta gráfica de las encuestas a pie de urna de CNN. Sanders y Biden son los únicos que sacan cifras de doble dígito entre negros e hispanos:Wait, 54% entre latinos? Sí, lo de Sanders con los latinos en Nevada ha sido de locos, pero no es algo que no se viera venir. Su campaña lleva meses, sino años, cuidando sus raíces en las comunidades latinas de cara a buscar resultados como este. ¡Y vaya si ha funcionado!En este artículo de The Intercept (medio de izquierdas) explican bien cómo la infraestructura de campaña de Sanders dedicó muchos recursos a la organización en comunidades latinas, con el español siendo la bandera para convencer a los votantes y enseñarles a participar en los caucus.Y en este otro de BuzzFeed cuentan cómo los jóvenes latinos que apoyan a Sanders en masa han sido la punta de lanza del senador para convencer a sus padres y abuelas para que descarten lo que han escuchado en medios generalistas de habla hispana como Telemundo (parte de NBCUniversal) y Univision y se decanten por Tío Bernie.(Sin olvidar la importancia de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez).Las encuestas auguraban un buen resultado para Bernie, pero el senador de Vermont las batió en 4 puntos, de ahí que la narrativa de la carrera sobre que todavía no es el favorito se haya desmontado en cuestión de horas. (Aquí ya sabíamos que era favorito desde hace semanas).Eso sí, cabe decir que Biden también superó expectativas en 3.5 puntos.El resultado del exvicepresidente está lejos de lo que decían las encuestas de Nevada antes de Iowa, pero al menos lo sitúan en un segundo puesto que NUNCA había conseguido en unas primarias en sus tres campañas presidenciales previas. Normal que estuviera tan aliviado el sábado:¿Y ahora? Mi previsión es que Biden va camino de ganar South Carolina este próximo sábado gracias a su apoyo entre votantes afroamericanos (es el único demográfico que le ha ganado a Sanders en Nevada) y que se establecerá como el único capaz de frenar el ascenso de Bernie.Jim Clyburn, el tercer demócrata más importante del Congreso en Washington D.C. y la figura política más influyente de South Carolina, apoyará la candidatura de Biden este miércoles, cimentando la potencial victoria del exvicepresidente en el estado.Las únicas dudas que tengo con South Carolina tienen que ver, por un lado, con el debate demócrata que se celebra este martes (y que seguiré en Twitter con uno de mis megahilos); y por otro, con el momentum que pueda tener Sanders tras su victoria en Nevada.Me atrevería a decir que Warren despedazará del todo a Mike Bloomberg el martes, que Biden y Sanders intentarán pasar desapercibidos en ese debate, y que el sábado Tío Bernie se quedará a unos pocos puntos de la victoria en South Carolina para luego ganar Texas y California en el Supermartes gracias a los latinos.¿Desea saber más? El hilo de Twitter que hice siguiendo los caucus de Nevada está bastante completo con más información de demográficos, participación y tal. Y en cuanto a la estrategia de Bloomberg, que tras Biden creo que es el único que puede frenar a Sanders por los recursos que tiene, hablé de él en Newtral (14 minutos).🦚 NBCUniversal enseña las plumasLo importante: NBCUniversal, uno de los tres grandes estudios de Hollywood que quedan en pie tras Disney (Disney+) y Warner Bros. (HBO Max), anunció hace unas semanas qué pinta tendrá su plataforma de streaming Peacock que se estrena el próximo abril.¿NBCUniversal? Es el estudio que te ha traído Jurassic Park, las Fast & Furious, los Minions y comedias como The Office o Parks and Recreation.Lo que ya sabemos: Que se diferenciará con respecto a sus rivales porque tendrá publicidad, aunque con opciones de pago para deshacerse de ella. Y que los usuarios que tengan cable contratado a través de Comcast (que es la corporación que controla NBCU) tendrán las mismas opciones que el resto pero con un descuento. Me explico:Peacock Free: 7.500 horas de contenido. Nuevas series con capítulos disponibles al día siguiente de su emisión. Algunos episodios de las series originales de Peacock. Noticias, clásicos de TV y películas populares.Precio: $0. Nada.Peacock Premium: 15.000 horas de contenido. Todas las series en emisión con capítulos disponibles al día siguiente de su emisión. Todas las series originales de Peacock. Acceso temprano a programas de late night. Directos de la Premier League. Todo el catálogo de clásicos. Toda la programación hispana. Noticias en vivo. Ah, y las ceremonias de apertura y clausura de los JJOO de Tokio.Precio: $5/mes con publicidad y $10/mes sin publicidad.Los usuarios de cable de Comcast no pagarán nada por Peacock Premium con publicidad pero sí $5/mes por la versión sin anuncios.Lo del cable lo menciono porque es importante para saber que la plataforma de lanzamiento de Peacock en abril será a través de los clientes de Xfinity/Cox, dos distribuidores de cable. Xfinity es parte de Comcast.Eso le da a NBCUniversal una primera piscina de más de 24 millones de usuarios con los que lanzar su aventura de Peacock y empezar a generar recursos desde el primer día no con dinero de suscripciones como hacen Netflix o Disney+, sino con una audiencia que venderle a los anunciantes.Lo que no sabemos: Más allá de alguna imagen random, el cómo lucen las series y películas originales que NBCU producirá para la plataforma. De lo que más me apetece: el reboot de Battlestar Galactica, el sci-fi distópico Brave New World, la adaptación del podcast Dr. Death y la nueva comedia de Mike Schur (The Good Place), Rutherford Falls.Tampoco sabemos: Qué efecto puede tener la cancelación de los JJOO de Tokio si el coronavirus sigue haciendo de las suyas. Toda la estrategia promocional de NBCU se iría al carajo. La crisis en Comcast sería para ver y gozar, la verdad.¿Desea saber más? En The Hollywood Reporter (6 minutos) tienen una buena columna sobre por qué la estrategia de NBCU puede ser la más inteligente de todas las del mundo del streaming —si es que uno no lo tiene tan fácil como Bob Iger con Disney+—. Y en The Verge (7 minutos), un artículo en el que resumen bien todo lo que ofrecerá la plataforma. Por supuesto, siempre podéis escucharnos a Pablo y a mí daros la turra (42 minutos).🤓 Tres lecturas relevantesSilicon Valley: 'El Metaverso. Qué es. Cómo encontrarlo. Quién lo construirá. Y Fortnite', por Matthew Ball en su web (en inglés; 42 minutos).Ball es la primera persona a la que leí hablar en profundidad sobre el Metaverso, esta idea de crear un mundo virtual a lo Ready Player One en el que los humanos puedan interactuar con elementos ya conocidos en la vida real como relaciones sentimentales y transacciones económicas, pero de cara a experiencias que solo puede ofrecer ese nuevo mundo virtual. He intentado reducirlo a una frase, pero el asunto es mucho más complejo y fascinante. Si leéis a Ball, avanzaréis 5 años en lo que el valle ya está pensando para el entretenimiento del futuro.Hollywood: 'Cómo el levantamiento de cejas se hizo mainstream', por Rebecca Jennings en Vox (en inglés; 9 minutos).Como bien dice Jennings: una vez lo has visto, ya no podrás dejar de verlo. Se refiere al levantamiento de cejas con botox que se hacen muchas famosas (y algunos famosos) para tener ojos de princesa Disney. Pero ese no es el problema. El problema está en la cantidad de jóvenes millennials que están dejándose influir por el postureo de Instagram y también se los están haciendo.Washington D.C.: 'La era de la decadencia’, por Ross Douthat de The New York Times (en inglés; 25 minutos).“Nuestros pesimistas ven crisis en todas partes; nuestros optimistas insisten en que tenemos ansiedad porque el mundo está cambiando a una velocidad que nuestros cerebros primitivos no pueden procesar. ¿Pero y si el sentimiento de aceleración es una ilusión conjurada por nuestras expectativas de progreso perpetuo y exageradas por el filtro distorsionado de internet?”. Uno de esos ensayos que te cambian la forma en la que piensas sobre nuestra existencia una vez has terminado de leerlo. Douthat es columnista conservador del Times. Merece mucho la pena leer la mayoría de sus columnas por mucho que no compartas su ideología o el hecho de que la religión sea tan importante en su forma de ver el mundo.😆 Quitándole la graciaRecetas que no tiran. Di con este vídeo megatop de un periodista de BBC que se ha dedicado a desmontar algunos de esos vídeos populares de recetas molonas que pueblan YouTube y Facebook desde hace años. Y sí, vale, podía imaginar que a ningún mortal le podían quedar platos tan guapos como los que pintan en esos vídeos, ¿pero que es todo una mentira absurda? Yikes. Flipo.Y en movidas que os alegrarán la semana:PewDiePie ha vuelto a YouTube y ha rajado a Jake Paul durante 15 minutos.“I have the high ground”, pero en modo Disney.Todas las canciones son así de simples. Y aun así son temazos.Hablando de temazos. Tú también puedes componer como Bad Bunny.Le han hecho una entrevista a la dueña del perro-meme Doge.Con compañeros de piso así DA GUSTO.Sombrerito mexicano para un gato peludo.Seguro que yo también me indignaba conmigo mismo así cuando me veía llorar.Está bien que respondiera la llamada del “¿Hay un médico en el avión?”, pero mejor es lo que pasó después.Suerte con este vídeo.Gatos que asustan de verdad.En serio, pero asustar DE VERDAD.Si eres un cabrón, te gustará ver lo que le pasa a este perro.Un bebé intentando decir popsicle. Porque esos vídeos nunca fallan.Cuando resulta que tu pato mascota es… ¿Dexter?“Kourtney, ¿qué cojones pasa con tu Wi-Fi?”Padres que ven más TikTok que sus hijas.Y por si no lo habéis visto, la señora random que cantó “Shallow” en el metro cuando se lo pidió un cómico y ahora ella tiene cientos de miles de seguidores en Instagram gracias a ello.🤩 Un vídeo para cabrearseCarlos Maza solía tener una serie de vídeos para la cabecera Vox llamada Strikethrough. Allí, se dedicaba a criticar a los medios generalistas y la cobertura tendenciosa que hacen de la realidad política y social estadounidense. Era especialmente duro con Fox News (con razón), pero ahora se ha hecho youtuber independiente y no solo está desatado contra CNN o MSNBC, sino que además ha hecho su mejor vídeo hasta la fecha.PD: Maza es muy de izquierdas, y lo notaréis en el vídeo, pero hace apuntes muy acertados sobre la crisis mediática que viven las cadenas de noticias en EEUU.👋 Y para terminar...Una recomendación. He terminado la última temporada de The Good Place, la serie de Kristen Bell y Ted Danson sobre “el cielo”. El último episodio es acojonante. Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation) sin duda sabe cerrar sus series. Creo que The Good Place tiene tramos irregulares que no se han criticado tanto como deberían, pero la conclusión final es que NBC suma otra gran comedia a su impresionante historial reciente de ellas: 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Rec, Will & Grace…Also, este fin de semana he estado escuchando el nuevo álbum de Grimes. Tengo pendiente leerme mejor las letras y darle caña a algunas canciones que he pasado de largo porque he estado muy liado, pero es indudable que “Delete Forever” es un señor temazo. Tiene videoclip:Hasta la semana que viene. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.lawikly.com/subscribe

Several years ago New York Times columnist Ross Douthat made a splash with his provocative book, “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.” As the title implies, religion isn't vanishing in America, it's simply embracing heretical ideas—from the prosperity gospel to sanctifying sexual immorality to political idolatry. What Douthat wrote back then still applies.  Warren Cole Smith caught up with Douthat at the recent Touchstone conference. And as we begin the countdown to calendar year end, we'd ask you to consider making a donation to BreakPoint and the Colson Center to help us end the year strong and reach more believers than ever before in 2020 through BreakPoint, the BreakPoint Podcast, and our other Christian worldview programs. Simply go to Colsoncenter.org/November to help. Thank you.

The death toll from the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka continued to climb all week. As of Thursday, the official count was 359 dead. Reading and listening to reports about the attacks, it's apparent that the number of victims in Sri Lanka isn't the only uncertainty. Many people, especially politicians and media outlets, seem to be having trouble deciding how to identify the victims. I don't mean individual names. I mean identifying what the large majority of victims had in common besides being Sri Lankan: They were Christians. The default identifier by left-leaning politicians on Twitter was “Easter worshippers.” Seeing a phrase that hardly anyone every uses repeated by so many was, well, just weird. In fact, when I first saw the trending “Easter worshippers” controversy blow up on Twitter, I wondered aloud if this was a redo of the made-up controversy over Starbuck's red cups at Christmas from a few years ago. Like then, I wondered if a few isolated examples were being blown out of proportion. I don't know who originally decided to use the expression “Easter worshipper,” but it definitely caught on. So much so that it almost looks like there must have been a memo somewhere advising people to use the expression instead of calling the victims “Christians.” President Obama tweeted “The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity.” Leaving aside the fact that Christians, not “humanity” writ large, were the ones attacked, it's still an odd choice of words. Even odder was Secretary Hillary Clinton's response: “On this holy weekend for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence. I'm praying for everyone affected by today's horrific attacks on Easter worshippers and travelers in Sri Lanka.” “Holy weekend for many faiths?” OK, Jews celebrated Passover on Saturday, but as the New York Times podcast “The Daily” pointed out from the start, the group behind the attacks targeted Catholic churches and attacked on Easter Sunday, which is holy to only one faith: Christianity. But even they struggled to identify the victims as Christians, preferring instead to call them “non-Muslims” on a number of occasions. And more than one NPR program I heard described how the rampant anti-Muslim environment of Sri Lanka contributed to the attacks. Even if we dismiss the odd victim nomenclature as an anomaly, many commentators talked as if it were the buildings instead of the people inside them, and their beliefs, that were the terrorists' target. This seeming denial or at least ignoring the fact that victims were targeted because they were Christians is so odd that it prompts the question “Why?” As Ross Douthat of the New York Times helpfully explained, at least part of the answer is that many Western commentators have trouble seeing Christianity and Christians as anything but privileged. However true or not that may be of Western Christians—and now is not the time to debate that—the events in Sri Lanka are, to paraphrase the opening line of Rick Warren's “The Purpose-Driven Life,” not about us. It's about, as Douthat put it, “Christians like the murdered first communicants in Sri Lanka, or the jailed pastors in China, or the Coptic martyrs of North Africa, or any of the millions of non-Western Christians who live under constant threat of persecution.” The reluctance to call them “Christians” trivializes their suffering; obviously, not in God's sight or in ours, but in the eyes of the non-Christian world. It's as if they died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, like someone who gets run over by a bus while crossing the street. Whatever gripes you have with American Christians, in much of the world Christians “live under the constant threat of persecution” and, as we saw this past Sunday, even death. Why? Because they are Christians. As I've said before, the failure to do more to protect them is a disgrace. And failing to call them by their proper name, “Christians,” adds gratuitous insult to already-grievous injury.

Welcome back to Beltway Banthas! Swara and Stephen are BOTH moving this week to new homes and this was as good a time as any to share some audio from over the summer. Stephen met up with New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat for a discussion on Star Wars and politics. It's a well rounded conversation with a lot of focus on Star Wars strengths AND weaknesses. We hope you enjoy and aren't distracted by the ambient noise of the conference.  Here are supplemental materials for Douthat's writing about Star Wars https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/12/star-wars-last-jedi-review-lost-space/ https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/the-politics-of-star-wars-2/ https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/the-politics-of-star-wars/ Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

This week's episode features the complete recording of a remarkable discussion that took place on Thursday, March 16, in New York City. In an event sponsored by Plough, First Things, and The American Conservative magazines, Rod Dreher, author of "The Benedict Option," discussed his strategy for building up communities of faith that are robust enough to flourish in a hostile culture. After Rod spoke, there followed a series of responses and questions from Ross Douthat (NY Times), Jacqueline Rivers (Seymour Institute), Michael Wear (Public Square Strategies), and Randall Gauger (Bruderhof). It was all moderated by Peter Mommsen. Background information on the speakers featured in this episode: -Rod Dreher's blog: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/ -Ross Douthat's columns: https://www.nytimes.com/column/ross-douthat -Michael Wear's website: http://michaelwear.com/ -Seymour Institute: https://www.seymourinstitute.com/ -Randall Gauger's occasional blog posts: http://www.bruderhof.com/en/voices-blog/our-authors/randall-gauger Notable segments: 2:13 - RR Reno's introductory remarks 5:03 - Rod Dreher's presentation 32:28 - Peter Mommsen introduces the panel 36:15 - Ross Douthat's remarks 43:50 - Michael Wear's remarks 58:38 - Dreher's response to Douthat & Wear 1:05:53 - Jacqueline Rivers's remarks 1:16:50 - Randall Gauger's remarks 1:28:58 - Dreher's response to Rivers & Gauger 1:37:28 - final Q&A between Dreher & panelists Rate us and leave us a comment on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the Bruderhof's website at www.bruderhof.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebruderhof Facebook: facebook.com/TheBruderhof Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruderhofcommunities Contact: contact@bruderhof.com