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
There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set… — 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
The best time to make deficit reduction a priority is when the inflation rate and the bond market give you some indication… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in… — 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
