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How to Interview Political Revolutionaries

May 13th, 2025 | 16 min read

By Jake Meador

Ross Douthat has long had an interest in thinkers and ideologies that do not ordinarily feature prominently in his employer's pages. That has been to his great credit, for it has made the Times a better paper and, I have no doubt, has made Douthat a more interesting and generative thinker.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.