Book · 2025 · Philosophy
Believe
Why Everyone Should Be Religious
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He's the author of Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite a bit of it I had some questions about.
Ezra Klein · Interesting Times · Aug 2025 Listen at 1:40 What they say about it
- Enjoys the book“a book I enjoyed very much”2
- Calls it an excellent book“excellent great wonderful book”2
The best things said about it
Just to again reiterate the new rossit book believe why everyone should be religious excellent great wonderful book.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Feb 2025 You know, there are a lot of people who are trying to make a case I'm thinking of of of Ross Dat's book, Believe. They're trying to make a case for that it's rational to believe in religion because oh, it's called the the finetuning argument.
Your book is an attempt to justify belief or the exploration of belief from an intelligent perspective.
What the book and you write about this quite poetically and quite beautifully, there is a belief very common belief among highly educated people that there is nothing beyond the material.
He has a new book which I'm a big fan of called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Feb 2025 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Believe by Ross Douthat is an exploration of why religious faith remains logical and vital in the modern era. Bari Weiss on Honestly with Bari Weiss and Tyler Cowen on Conversations with Tyler both warmly recommended the publication as an excellent and compelling read for exploring the rationality of belief. Dr. David DeSteno on Huberman Lab discussed the book to illustrate arguments for religious belief based on the fine-tuning of the universe. Ezra Klein on Interesting Times and on The Ezra Klein Show shared that he enjoyed the volume thoroughly, despite having questions about certain arguments presented within its pages. Russ Roberts on EconTalk engaged the author in a deep conversation about the book, asking him to summarize its thumbnail argument for skeptics and exploring how the text addresses the prevalent materialist assumptions common among highly educated people. Together, these podcast episodes showcased the book as a serious, intellectually rigorous contribution to contemporary discussions surrounding faith, consciousness, and the existence of a reality beyond the material world.
Every mention
Bari Weiss His latest book, which we talk about today, is called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. 2
Recommended
“His latest book, which we talk about today, is called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.”
Recommended
“The book is believe Why everyone should be religious.”
Tyler Cowen just to again reiterate the new rossit book believe why everyone should be religious excellent great wonder… 3
Discussed
“he has many excellent books and he has a new book which I'm a big fan of called believe why everyone should be religious”
Discussed
“this gets us to the part of your book where you discuss me and I'm never quite sure how one settles on a particular religious belief”
Recommended
“just to again reiterate the new rossit book believe why everyone should be religious excellent great wonderful book”
Ezra Klein He's the author of Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite… 2
Discussed
“He's the author of Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite a bit of it I had some questions about.”
Discussed
“He's the author of Believe, Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite a bit of it I had some questions about.”
Russ Roberts Your book is an attempt to justify belief or the exploration of belief from an intelligent perspective. Uh… 2
Discussed
“Your book is an attempt to justify belief or the exploration of belief from an intelligent perspective. Uh give us the thumbnail for the skeptics out there.”
Discussed
“Um and in particular what the book and you write about this quite poetically and quite beautifully. Uh there is a belief very common belief among highly educated people that there is nothing beyond the material.”
Dr. David DeSteno You know, there are a lot of people who are trying to make a case I'm thinking of of of Ross Dat's book, Be… 1
Discussed
“You know, there are a lot of people who are trying to make a case I'm thinking of of of Ross Dat's book, Believe. They're trying to make a case for that it's rational to believe in religion because oh, it's called the the finetuning argument.”
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Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“Ezra had me on his show this past spring to talk about my recent book, Believe.”
Passing
“that Ross Douthat, who's recently interviewed on the episode hasn't aired, can write a book called Believe is is has a very new feel to it.”
Plugged
“He is an opinion columnist for the New York Times and our topic for today is his latest book, Believe, Why Everyone Should Be Religious.”
Plugged
“the general religious picture and this is a book that you know I think for various reasons tries to start by laying out a very general case for why someone would be religious before you get to whether you should be Jewish or Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever else.”
Plugged
“I think there's sort of a general strangeness that uh that is one reason I wrote this book now is that I think we're in a a stranger moment than we were 10 or 15 years ago in terms of sort of the spiritual and the material.”