Featuring Ross Douthat, conservative political analyst, author, and New York Times columnist in conversation with Michelle Goldberg, New York Times columnist and Douthat’s co-host of the Times Op-Ed podcast, The Argument. His newest book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, explores what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of “sustainable decadence”. Douthat dissects how we got here, how long this age of frustration might last and how our decadence might ultimately end.
Has Decadence Rendered Us Happy and Comfortable or Stagnant and Disappointed?
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