A Conversation with Ross Douthat about "The Decadent Society"

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Russell Moore

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode I am joined by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his latest book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. Ross’s column appears weekly and he co-hosts the Times Op-Ed podcast, “The Argument.” He previously served as a senior editor at The Atlantic. His other books include Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012) and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (2005). I invite you to listen in on our conversation, and be sure to subscribe to receive future episodes of Signposts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.5	listen in on conversations with people that I like to talk to about a variety of issues.
1:01.8	And today I'm really excited about talking to one of my favorite
1:06.1	writers Ross Dalth that many of you most of you are familiar with his writing in the
1:11.4	New York Times he's a columnist there and he has a new book called
1:14.8	the Decident Society How We Became the Victims of our own success at Ross Dalth. Thanks so much for being
1:21.5	with us today on signposts.
1:23.0	Thanks for having me Russell it's great to be here.
1:25.8	You know there are so many things that I would like to talk about today but
1:29.7	the first thing I want to talk about I was really interested in reading your book on
1:33.3	Decidence because I couldn't help but think about people that I've known who
1:39.6	when things kind of fall apart for them.
1:43.1	Some of them explicitly collapse.
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