The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Like most places, America has always had potent strains of anti-Semitism - crude and polished, K.K.K. and country club. But unlike many… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of great things that megachurches and successful fundraising appeals can allow you to do, especially in terms of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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 Image
