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Ross Douthat
life after roe
Apr. 11, 2024
Ross Douthat Is Wrong About What Caused a Powerful Pro-Abortion Backlash Growing pro-choice sentiment arose independently of any partisan motives.
the national interest
June 8, 2021
The Authoritarian Threat Is Not Overhyped Ross Douthat’s unpersuasive case for complacency.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 13, 2020
Trump’s Incompetence Does Not Excuse His Authoritarianism The plot against America will probably fail. But it might succeed.
By Jonathan Chait
ruth bader ginsburg
Sept. 21, 2020
Anti-Abortion Zealots Demand a Vote to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat The moment of deliverance is already here for anti-abortion activists calling in Republican debts to rush through a Supreme Court nominee.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
May 20, 2020
Trump Is Failing at Governing But Winning at Authoritarianism Terrible management and effective corruption can go hand in hand.
By Jonathan Chait
A Non-Racist Conservatism Must Look to the Future, Not the Past Ross Douthat’s latest column paints a discouraging picture of non-racist conservatism.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
donald trump
July 17, 2019
Trump’s ‘Love It Or Leave It’ Jingoism Was Predictable All Along Ross Douthat’s suggestion that Trump perverted an initially healthy skepticism about American virtue misses the authoritarian impulses he represents.
By Ed Kilgore
Josh Hawley Could Be the Face of the Post-Trump Right The polished young Missouri senator thinks liberty is a vehicle for the righteous, not the godless.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Aren’t Cultural ‘Extremists,’ They’ve Moved With the Country Ross Douthat is wrong: Republicans are the ones who have abandoned “cultural centrism.”
By Ed Kilgore
interesting times
Mar. 1, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: A Radically Moderate Answer to Climate Change Sometimes moderation isn’t just the mushy middle between two extremes; it’s a form of pragmatic and even revolutionary imagination.
By Andrew Sullivan
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 19, 2018
Is the Anti-Abortion Movement Just Applied Anti-Feminism? More and more, those who oppose legalized abortion seem motivated by animus toward women’s rights. The Kavanaugh fight could make that even clearer.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Sad, Weak Encounter With Putin Substance aside, the optics of Trump’s joint appearance with Vladimir Putin were disastrous for a would-be bully-boy.
By Ed Kilgore
Ross Douthat’s Greatest Sex-Writing Hits In the wake of his most recent column, a look back at the “Chunky Reese Witherspoon” incident and more.
By Gabriella Paiella
Some Conservative Christians Still Object to the ‘Heathen’ in the White House While most conservative Christians cheered Trump’s victory, influential intellectuals like Ross Douthat think it would be better to turn inward.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Dec. 23, 2015
Sorry, Conservatives, Obamacare Is Still Working We will stop correcting you when you stop being wrong.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 29, 2015
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 9, 2015
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 11, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 28, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 10, 2014
7 Ways Paul Ryan Revealed His Love for Ayn Rand Society could never accept their love, but the passion could not be denied …
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 23, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 22, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
The Real Reason Twentysomething Women Are Worried It’s not because tricky, slippery boys just won’t commit.
By Ann Friedman
the national interest
Dec. 10, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 7, 2013
Ross Douthat: Debt-Ceiling Extortion Isn’t So Bad, Really The best argument for extortion is still a terrible argument.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 6, 2013
The Democratic Plot Against White People Ross Douthat has a strange theory about this.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 24, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 31, 2013
Yes, Conservative Reformers Exist A maddening but necessary brake on a crazy party.
By Jonathan Chait
The Decadence of Procreation The duchess is pregnant, but the rest of us can’t afford it. Reality-checking Ross Douthat’s call to fertility.
By Ann Friedman
the national interest
Oct. 9, 2012
The Tragedy of Moderate Republicanism Denial is not just a river in one of those countries your party’s base would like to bomb.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 12, 2012
How Romney Overcame His Sanity to Win He isn’t crazy enough to be mayor of Crazytown, but he is rich enough.
By Jonathan Chait
ink-stained wretches
Apr. 28, 2009
Ross Douthat Does Exactly What Was Expected of Him The ‘Times’ columnist’s debut effort has enough to please both liberals and conservatives.
By Dan Amira
ink-stained wretches
Mar. 11, 2009
By Chris Rovzar
instant politics
Sept. 3, 2008
Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen on Lieberman, Palin, and Outlawing Abortion For today’s IM conversation, we bring together Ross Douthat, a senior editor at ‘The Atlantic,’ and Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University who blogs at MarginalRevolution.com.
instant politics
Sept. 2, 2008
Defending Sarah Palin: Ross Douthat and Jonah Goldberg on McCain’s V.P. Pick As Culture-War Hand Grenade Every day until November 4, a series of writers and thinkers will discuss the election over instant messenger for nymag.com. For our inaugural conversation, we bring together Ross Douthat and Jonah Goldberg.
