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Harrison Butker’s Very American Traditionalism

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Across almost two weeks of controversy over the commencement speech...

25.05.2024 50

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Why the Manhattan Trial Is Probably Helping Trump

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Throughout the Republican primary campaign (such as it was), it was...

18.05.2024 40

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Is There a Post-Religious Right?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his...

11.05.2024 40

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What Medical Stories Do We Trust?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A...

04.05.2024 60

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Biden Is Not Winning. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like It Is.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In February, there was a flurry of discussion about whether Joe...

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What Students Read Before They Protest

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that...

28.04.2024 100

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The Real Path to an American Civil War

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week Donald Trump was put on trial by a liberal prosecutor on what...

17.04.2024 40

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Why Can’t Biden Triangulate Like Trump?

There’s a difference between being aware of your base and being its prisoner.

13.04.2024 10

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Can the Left Be Happy?

Comforted by neither God nor history, and hoping vaguely that therapy can take their place.

06.04.2024 10

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The Birth Dearth and the Smartphone Age

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist My newsroom colleagues Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani have a...

06.04.2024 20

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It’s Easter 2050. Here’s What American Religion Looks Like.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This...

30.03.2024 70

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The Great Tension Inside the Trump G.O.P.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week the populist think tank American Compass released polling...

29.03.2024 10

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Has Liberalism Found a Coherent Sexual Ethics?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in...

27.03.2024 30

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The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist If you believe President Biden’s aides and allies, he intends to...

23.03.2024 30

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From ‘Dune’ to Decadence (and Back)

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist There are three great novels that I read as an early adolescent that I...

09.03.2024 50

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After Super Tuesday, Trump Is Stronger Than He’s Ever Been

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist About 18 months ago, Donald Trump suffered one of his worst political...

06.03.2024 40

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Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Amid all the talk about the potential influence of Christian...

02.03.2024 50

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Should We Fear the Woke A.I.?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Imagine a short story from the golden age of science fiction, something...

24.02.2024 40

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Where Did the ‘True Detective’ Magic Go? To Another Show.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist If I were asked to condense the entire era of prestige television —...

24.02.2024 30

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What It Means to Choose Between Ukraine and Taiwan

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Over the weekend Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio went to the Munich Security...

21.02.2024 20

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The Best Case for Ukraine Aid

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The first year of the war in Ukraine seemed to vindicate Russia hawks....

17.02.2024 20

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What the News and the Pews Have in Common

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the...

17.02.2024 30

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Neither Trumpism Nor Bidenomics Has an Answer to Inflation

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The flare of inflation reported this week, the unwelcome guest still...

14.02.2024 10

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The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Joe Biden should not be running for re-election. That much was obvious...

10.02.2024 50

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America Between Jesus and Faust

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Writer In my Saturday column I dabbled in a peculiar kind of optimism about the...

10.02.2024 30

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Only America Can Save the Future

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Every new year Dan Wang, a technology analyst with an East Asia-based...

03.02.2024 50

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Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the Right’s Abnormality Problem

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist There was a brief period in the later part of the Covid-19 pandemic,...

31.01.2024 50

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A Radical Proposal for Nikki Haley: Try to Win More Votes

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Nikki Haley lost the New Hampshire primary but found a cause: getting...

27.01.2024 200

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The What-Ifs of Trump’s New Hampshire Win

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Like his victory in Iowa last week, Donald Trump’s defeat of Nikki...

24.01.2024 20

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Why Nikki Haley Could Be the Most Dangerous President

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the alternate timeline where Ron DeSantis proved to be a capable...

20.01.2024 50

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The Roots of Trump Nostalgia

Why Joe Biden’s problem is bigger than just fatigue with anti-Trumpism.

19.01.2024 7

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How Trump’s Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses was resounding enough to...

16.01.2024 10

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The DeSantis Campaign Is Revealing What Republican Voters Really Want

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist If Ron DeSantis surprises in Iowa and beyond, if he recovers from his...

13.01.2024 50

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Is Trump an Agent or an Accident of History?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, a “psychohistorian” in a...

06.01.2024 10

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Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself

How the left, not just the right, helped bring Gay down.

03.01.2024 40

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The Anti-Democratic Quest to Save Democracy From Trump

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Let’s consider a counterfactual. In the autumn of 2016, with American...

23.12.2023 10

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No Better Time to Be a Catholic

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist When I began writing a column for this newspaper, I was by no means...

23.12.2023 20

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Why Biden Needs an Immigration Deal

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Over the last few months, the incredulous question — How can Donald...

09.12.2023 10

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