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Ross Douthat

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Israel’s Moral Balance Beam

The columnist Bret Stephens on what’s at stake for the Middle East and American Jews.

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Musk’s Third Party Starts With a Good Idea

Is there a way to elect an independent bloc of senators?

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Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts

The various ways that the G.O.P. legislation doesn’t address itself to America’s most important problems.

05.07.2025 80

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Did the ‘Deep State’ Invent the U.F.O. Craze?

Toward a unified theory of an extremely weird situation.

02.07.2025 10

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

A conversation with the original tech right power player.

26.06.2025 70

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The Progressive Regulator With Trumpist Fans

Lina Khan wants to overthrow “the autocrats of trade.”

19.06.2025 30

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Four Thoughts on Trump’s Hawkish Turn on Iran

Why the president is disappointing noninterventionists.

18.06.2025 20

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Why the Euthanasia Slope Is Slippery

Canada’s assisted suicide law should tell us something about the bill that New York’s Legislature just passed.

14.06.2025 10

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Why Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Defines the Right

A historian of conservatism explains what holds a fractious coalition together.

12.06.2025 4

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The Biggest Mystery of Elon Musk

How did the great rocketeer become a deficit scold?

08.06.2025 20

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What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?

The showrunner Tony Gilroy on the political ideologies of “Andor.”

05.06.2025 10

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Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

How the continent’s divisions compare to America’s own factions.

04.06.2025 20

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‘TACO’ Is the Secret to Trump’s Resilience

Chickening out is crucial to his political success.

01.06.2025 100

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Progressives Are Driving Themselves Into Extinction

What would make you want to have more children?

29.05.2025 8

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JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies

The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.

22.05.2025 100

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What the World Needs From Pope Leo

Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.

10.05.2025 20

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The Democratic Senator Taking Cues From Trumpism

Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who’s screwing them.

09.05.2025 30

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The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive

The left has dictated culture for decades. Jonathan Keeperman is trying to change that.

01.05.2025 20

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Francis and the End of the Imperial Papacy

Papal weakness has also opened up other possibilities for Christian and Catholic witness.

22.04.2025 60

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An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.

Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.

20.04.2025 400

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What if There’s No Way to Stop Trump’s Approach to Power?

And how this could all go down in the courts.

18.04.2025 60

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May You Listen to ‘Interesting Times’

My new show will look at our strange and getting-stranger world.

12.04.2025 10

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This Instability May Be Worth It. Here’s Why.

Oren Cass makes the case for tariffs.

11.04.2025 20

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The Theories Behind the Trump Shock

What Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish — and reasons for skepticism.

05.04.2025 30

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The Trump White House’s Signal Problem

A national security scandal is manageable. A bunker mentality spells doom.

29.03.2025 30

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Can the Jesus of History Support the Christ of Faith?

Why historically minded believers still find the New Testament credible.

28.03.2025 5

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It’s About Ideology, Not Oligarchy

Trump’s agenda doesn’t serve the superrich.

22.03.2025 30

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How Israel Divides the Right

22.03.2025 10

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Why U.S. Conservatives Should Fall in Love With France

Turns out Charles de Gaulle was right.

08.03.2025 40

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Amy Coney Barrett and the Right’s Elite-Building Problem

MAGA can’t run a regime change on its own.

08.03.2025 10

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The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education

Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”

07.03.2025 20

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What Is ‘Severance’ About?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist “Severance,” the Apple TV serial about a corporation whose...

02.03.2025 10

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Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions

But realism needs more diplomacy to work.

01.03.2025 50

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What Trump Can Learn From the Last G.O.P. Disaster

How the vibe shift of 2025 could be squandered.

22.02.2025 20

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The Best Argument Against Having Faith in God

Why the problem of evil is not really an argument for atheism.

15.02.2025 30

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Can MAGA Run the American Empire?

The real stakes of the U.S.A.I.D. debate.

09.02.2025 10

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My Favorite Argument for the Existence of God

We, ourselves, are part of the proof.

08.02.2025 10

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How to Choose a Religion

A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery.

01.02.2025 20

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Does Humanity Have a Future?

In search of a ‘Golden Path’ through the age of A.I.

01.02.2025 70

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Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism

The fight for Donald Trump’s ear.

31.01.2025 7

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How the Liberal Cathedral Cracked Up

Cultural hegemony requires a light touch, not an inquisition

26.01.2025 30

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In the Court of King Trump

The second Trump White House is starting out with a remarkable degree of conflict among different individuals, constituencies and worldviews.

26.01.2025 50

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What Are the Omens for Trump 2.0?

The only possibility for a second Trump term that would be truly surprising is a period of unlooked-for calm.

19.01.2025 30

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How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms

Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.

18.01.2025 100

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JD Vance, Elon Musk and the Future of America

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Beneath all the furor around Donald Trump’s appointments — Matt Gaetz...

07.12.2024 30

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Three Theories of the Trump Cabinet

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23.11.2024 4

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The Post-Cold War Era Is Finished. Liberalism and Democracy Will Go On.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that...

23.11.2024 10

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The Road to Trump’s ‘Grand New Party’

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22.11.2024 20

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Trump Has Put an End to an Era. The Future Is Up for Grabs.

Opinion Ross Douthat Credit... Jamie Chung for The New York Times Supported by By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Kamala Harris lost the...

16.11.2024 30

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How Democrats Made It Easy for Trump

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