General Quote by Ross Douthat

Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain.

— Ross Douthat

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

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

“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

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

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

— Ross Douthat

“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

“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

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

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

Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

— Ross Douthat

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