I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America’s relentless appetite— for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think that the politicians who were beaten by Donald Trump and then endorsed him, that's something that they will carry and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Politics is partially about what you fear more than what you love, so there are plenty of things about liberalism all by… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Fox News is really two news networks. It's a center right news network that has good, solid, interesting coverage if you're watching… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In our age of digital connection and constantly online life, you might say that two political regimes are evolving, one Chinese and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it that way. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“What he felt during his Spanish encounter with left-wing anti-Christianity was similar to his reactions to the anti-Christianity of the right. The "novelty and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities’ willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
