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Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
American Author
Born: 1979
American Christian Political Think Time You
For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces. Ross Douthat
Grateful I Am Twitter Ideas Always Am Effects Interesting
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. Ross Douthat
Conservatism Spirit Equally Opposite Offend Offends Celibacy Against Used Now
There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot. Ross Douthat
Conservative Win Conservatism Out Moralistic Hypocritical Voters Cannot Might Populist Right
When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse, a timely reason to bring up the book in question. Ross Douthat
You Book Rule Hook About Write Columnist Supposed Excuse Question Up Timely Wants Newspaper Reason Novel Bring
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien's particular worldview bequeathed. Ross Douthat
Writing Political Worldview Inevitable Christian Tried More Generalization Particular Revise Escape Influence Storytelling Fantasy Tolkien
Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain. Ross Douthat
Community Seek Openness Permanent Human Sustain Human Beings Hard Beings
Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected. Ross Douthat
Communication People Internet Older More Most Protected Private Than Convenience Want Spaces Forms Far
In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale. Ross Douthat
Congress President Innovative Scale Obama Term Dead Executive His Legislative Barack Agenda Turned Second Second Term
Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own. Ross Douthat
Time Own Christian Every Every Time Tempted My Own Sure Going Place Forms Certain Heresy
I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily. Ross Douthat
Think Term Necessarily Heretic
Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time. Ross Douthat
Time Year Allowed Buffet From Time To Time Warren Even Awful
There are many families that want to raise kids on one income, or one income and some part-time work, and instead find themselves pressured, financially and culturally, to keep up with the dual-earning Smith-Joneses next door. Ross Douthat
Work Kids Pressured Financially Find Some Part-Time Instead Up Families Want Door Themselves Next Next Door Many Keep Income Raise
It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should be able to prevent the former from degenerating into the latter. Ross Douthat
Love Freedom Long Christian Way Latter Able Eat Martin Prevent Long Way Pray Former Should Vigorous Luther
Trump could also only win the presidency without a popular-vote majority because a large region of the country, the greater Rust Belt and Appalachia, had been neglected by both parties' policies over the preceding decades, leading to a slow-building social crisis that the national press only really noticed because of Trump's political success. Ross Douthat
Success Win Political Country National Presidency Neglected Press Crisis Rust Only Both Both Parties Could Had Leading Over Parties Also Majority Policies Greater Because Without Been Trump Decades Region Social Really Noticed Large Belt
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority. Ross Douthat
Writing Church Earnest John About John Paul Participant Until Lot Debates Authority Paul Really Present Start
For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case. Ross Douthat
Experience Minority Signal Case American Just Just One Many Elevated Among Jewish
The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever. Ross Douthat
Liberals Nixon Instead New Calling New Deal Became Accepted Democrats Deal Reagan Real Forever Former Themselves Who Description Eventually
I think that ultimately the Christian vision of sexuality - the New Testament vision - is not compatible with same-sex marriage. And I don't see a way to change that without entering into a kind of deception, basically. Ross Douthat
Change Marriage Vision Christian Think I Think Way Entering Kind Sexuality See New Without Testament Ultimately New Testament Same-Sex Same-Sex Marriage Deception Compatible Basically
Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it. Ross Douthat
Great National Drama Our Rather Expansion Than Westward Native Population Conquered
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born. Ross Douthat
Time Election College Politicians Respond Born About More Leads Parties Close Reform Again Unifying Electoral Electoral College Incentives Need
I think that liberalism and the centrist governing elite of this country need to learn lessons from the Trump phenomenon. It is part of the way that the country is governed and the country is shaped that induces spasms of populism, including spasms of bigoted populism. Ross Douthat
Country Think Liberalism I Think Way Shaped Part Learn Governed Governing Trump Centrist Bigoted Lessons Including Elite Need Phenomenon
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate. Ross Douthat
War Debate Evil President Moral Religious Moral Evil Civil Constitutional Civil War Authoritarian America Defeated Slavery
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. Ross Douthat
Extremely Worst Some General Feature He Most His Trump Authoritarian Done While Public Really View Noxious Things Presentation
I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs. Ross Douthat
Rare Think I Think Out Atheism Rare Thing Supernatural True Most Nominal Sort Metaphysical Affairs Lot Human Human Affairs Turn Europe Even Beliefs Thing
When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest. Ross Douthat
Politics Heart Conservative Darkness Rest President President Trump Liberals Right-Wing Both Argue Ecosystem Toxic Likely Always Era Trump Explaining Brexit Exposed Populist Present Phenomenon
It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism. Ross Douthat
Patriotism Dangerous Healthy Nationalism Shades Clear Always Where
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