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The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ross Douthat returns to the Ricochet Podcast to discuss his latest book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. Rob, Steve and James chat with him to get at The Big Everything. Why does a Catholic make the case for broadly-defined belief? Has disillusionment with liberalism provided God an opening to win back lost sheep? Should faith guide us toward practical answers to ordinary problems? Tune in for answers!

Plus, the fellas discuss Voodoo Doll research getting the DOGE treatment; they consider the levels of commitment to America First; and they express their doubts that AfD's expected gains in the German parliament portend a Nazi revival.

Clip from this week's open: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gives the press a civics lesson.

Transcript

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0:30.1	But I think only in Divinity School are they at least approaching the text by saying,
0:34.3	I'm not trying to destroy it.
0:35.5	I need to love it and I don't know how to love it.
0:44.7	Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
0:49.4	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:59.7	It's the Rickishay podcast with Stephen Hayward, myself James Lillen, and Rob Long is back because we're going to talk to Ross Doff by this new book, Why You should be religious.
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1:12.9	The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what
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