Authoritarian Quote by Ross Douthat

“My view of Trump is that, while he has done some extremely noxious things, in general his worst feature, his most authoritarian feature, really is his public presentation.”

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

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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.

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On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it…

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“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…

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There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future…

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

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“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…

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“In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities’ willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to…

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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…

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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…

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

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It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be…

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