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Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
American Author
Born: 1979
American Christian Political Think Time You
Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions. Ross Douthat
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The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism. Ross Douthat
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It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements. Ross Douthat
Political Nationalism White Liberal Recognize Religious Principles Arrangements Limiting Cultural Role Ethnic Many
Modern conservatism was forged in the crucible of the 1970s inflation crisis, and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash many conservatives were convinced that there was nothing the Federal Reserve could do about the vast army of the unemployed without touching off a similar inflationary spiral. Ross Douthat
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I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think that Trump is benefiting from the weakening of religious participation. He's winning evangelicals who aren't in church. Ross Douthat
You Church Nationalism Christian Think Benefiting I Think Weakening Religious Kinds See Winning He Clear Support Between Participation Also Trump Link Then Certain Evangelicals Who
If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for idealistic reform within the system has to coexist with an openness to more radical possibilities. Ross Douthat
You People Own Radical Live Claims System Possibilities High Seems More Idealistic Ideals Openness Within Opposed Reform Your Coexist Flourishing Desire
The prosperity gospel, in its various forms, has always been with us and always will. But that reality is no less problematic for being inescapable. Ross Douthat
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I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely - which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump. Ross Douthat
I Am Made Inevitable Doubt Think Conservatives Religious Likely Return Am Trump Donald Donald Trump Which Bargain Full Reason Many Even Among
To analyze Trump is to discover only bottomless appetite and need, and to carve at him is like carving at an online troll: The only thing to discover is the void. Ross Douthat
Analyze Carve Carving Online Only Void Bottomless Like Him Discover Trump The Only Thing Appetite Thing Need
The rhetoric of anti-Catholicism, whether its sources are Protestant or secular, has always insisted that the church of Rome is the enemy of what you might call healthy sexuality. Ross Douthat
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Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind. Ross Douthat
Own Difficult Every Society Project Seeks Colorblind Democratic Course Perpetuation Egalitarian Uniquely Elite
Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full. Ross Douthat
Liberalism Embrace Pushed Identity Shed Genteel Being Agenda Full Shows Awards
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed. Ross Douthat
Best Arrogance Old Duty Sense Evidence Oblige Aristocracy Emphasis Ideal Without Tradition Self-Restraint Up Privilege Just Being Ends Vices Inheritance Displayed Wasps Elite
Politics is partially about what you fear more than what you love, so there are plenty of things about liberalism all by itself that make me tempted to support Trump. Ross Douthat
Love Politics Me You Fear Liberalism Plenty About Tempted More Support Make Trump Itself Than What You Love Things
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say. Ross Douthat
Path Church Say Would Fairly Catholic Read Catholic Church Intellectual Lot Conventional
I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it. Ross Douthat
Hope You Too Much Think Too I Think Weight Putting Simultaneously Supportive Without Celebrities Artists Want Much
I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington. Ross Douthat
Power Think I Think Adept General Had Particularly Been Trump Agenda Using Washington Populist
There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future consultants and investment bankers. At least the Trotskyists cared about the important stuff. Ross Douthat
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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody. Ross Douthat
History Communism Fear Secular Made Everybody Conservatives Liberalism Plenty Out Religious Pretty Examples Alliance Badly Up Ended Going Where
That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted. Ross Douthat
Me Trust Preserves System Corrupted More Attending Mass Clerical Obvious Call Trust Me Than Celibacy Any Even Guarantee Guarantees
Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own. Ross Douthat
Life Rare Own Relative Rare Thing Comfort Genuine Real Real Difference Truly Exotic Difference Forms Requires Thing
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. Ross Douthat
Conservative Power Innovations Must Seem Like Disastrous Ideas Catholics False Where Resist
If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry. Ross Douthat
God You Too Assuming Purposes Toward Idolatry America Confident Tiptoe
Our crisis of the house divided was a Christian civil war. Ross Douthat
War Christian Our Crisis Civil Civil War Divided House
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do. Ross Douthat
Memory Song Fire Reading Late 1990s Martin Over George Ice Fantasy Painful Novels Serve Thing Started Started Reading
It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized. Ross Douthat
Politics Culture Nationalism Heights White Believe More Polarized Ideological Makes Commanding American Uniformity American Politics Growing
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