I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington. — 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
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 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
For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
To analyze Trump is to discover only bottomless appetite and need, and to carve at him is like carving at an online… — 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 Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely… — 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
Trump could also only win the presidency without a popular-vote majority because a large region of the country, the greater Rust Belt… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In general, I think that not voting is a perfectly honorable and civic-minded course in an election with two options that you… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My view of Trump is that, while he has done some extremely noxious things, in general his worst feature, his most authoritarian… — 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
