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Ross Douthat

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George W. Trump Goes to War

The desire for a revolutionary presidency gives hubris a lot of space to work.

07.03.2026 10

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Trump Struck Iran Because He Sensed Weakness

Has his unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?

03.03.2026 8

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If A.I. Is a Weapon, Who Should Control It?

Better to put this power in the hands of private industry or government officials?

28.02.2026 10

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Whatever Happened to Grown-Up Movies for Kids?

We need stories that are more adult than Y.A. and less explicit than HBO.

25.02.2026 30

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4 Big U.F.O. Questions for the White House

What a declassification effort could help us resolve.

21.02.2026 250

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What the American Right Wants From Europe

The tensions in Marco Rubio’s trans-Atlantic vision.

18.02.2026 70

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How Fast Can A.I. Change the Workplace?

Every great innovation has led to fears of mass unemployment.

14.02.2026 100

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A.I. May Put Progressives to the Test

The left needs a sharper A.I. politics.

11.02.2026 20

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Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

Activists won the legal battle. Are they losing the culture war?

05.02.2026 10

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Vice and the Crisis of Liberalism

Is there a political prescription for our era of addiction?

04.02.2026 40

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Pay More Attention to A.I.

A new world, hard to grasp and even harder to predict.

01.02.2026 50

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Immigration Enforcement Is Unavoidably Upsetting. But This Is Something Else.

Is this really the only way to enforce the law?

28.01.2026 40

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Can Middle Powers Like Canada Exist Between America and China?

It might be worth considering the logic of the Carney doctrine.

24.01.2026 9

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What Restrains Trump Now?

The president needs counterforces to save him from himself.

21.01.2026 90

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Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era

The right’s future is all about American nationalism.

17.01.2026 20

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The ICE Shooting Displays the Need for Equilibrium. But How?

A tough issue for stabilization in our politics and public institutions.

10.01.2026 60

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A Future for Confession

The sacrament of penance’s 21st-century allure.

08.01.2026 20

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How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment

The secretary of state has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.

20.12.2025 40

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There’s a Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of Young Men

Does discrimination drive alienation?

17.12.2025 60

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Why Is Christianity So Hard to Find in the Trump Administration?

Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.

06.12.2025 10

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The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself

Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.

03.12.2025 30

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Trump Is Down Again. His Way Back Up This Time Is Not So Clear.

There are no easy answers for the current economic discontent.

22.11.2025 20

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What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?

Notes on an unstable but necessary idea.

19.11.2025 10

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The Outstanding Question About Epstein and Trump

What unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure?

15.11.2025 10

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What the Movies Need From Sydney Sweeney

Only stardom can save Hollywood.

13.11.2025 9

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Will Anyone Play the King Again?

If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?

08.11.2025 10

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What Conservatives Should Do About Nick Fuentes

There are no shortcuts in the fight against right-wing antisemitism.

05.11.2025 10

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It’s Obvious Why Harris Lost in 2024. But Can Democrats Accept It?

Lessons from the Tea Party and recent elections.

01.11.2025 30

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Why Trump’s East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen

The arguments against it illustrate a consistent problem with progressive stewardship of American cities.

26.10.2025 10

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Taylor Swift’s Latest Reinvention Is Both Coarse and Conservative

Coarseness and conservative impulses in “The Life of a Showgirl.”

22.10.2025 9

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The Pope Needs to Be More Specific

A pious vision of political economy should get more concrete.

15.10.2025 10

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An Ideological Revolution Needs 12 Years in Power

The Trump administration has a long way to go.

08.10.2025 10

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Can Left and Right Understand the Other Side’s Fears?

Getting past the urge to reduce all politics to existential conflict.

04.10.2025 10

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Drones, Denmark and Dark Magic

With the technologies that are in the process of remaking our world, the zone of uncertainty is larger.

27.09.2025 20

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Christianity After Charlie Kirk

Will a martyrdom set off a religious revival?

23.09.2025 8

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The Conservative Principle Behind the Kimmel Suspension

A civic-minded purpose is key.

20.09.2025 10

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Why the Kirk Assassination Is a Warning to the Left

Progressives need a cure for political desperation and despair.

17.09.2025 10

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Charlie Kirk Embodied Mass-Culture Conservatism

He was a spokesman for a movement that seemed both more rebellious and more normal.

11.09.2025 20

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Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Scandal?

Even compelling debunkings don’t eliminate the mystery.

10.09.2025 20

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Will Trump’s Imperial Presidency Last?

Why the new model of executive power will likely outlive the Caesar who created it.

06.09.2025 10

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How Progressives Lost Their Story

The left has a birthrate problem. Their pessimism might cost them converts.

03.09.2025 10

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Your Rivals Aren’t Responsible for Mass Shootings

Attempts to blame extreme political rhetoric for mass shootings should be treated with extreme skepticism.

31.08.2025 10

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Small Bookstores and the Future of Liberalism

A retreat from partisan politics, wokeness and optimism.

27.08.2025 10

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Will MAHA Change America?

The outsider critique of the medical establishment has always struggled to offer an alternative vision that’s rigorous rather than credulous.

09.08.2025 10

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Silicon Valley Wants to Optimize Your Children’s Genes

For as little as $2,500, you can choose your future baby. Should you?

07.08.2025 10

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Why Did God Favor France?

Five theories about Joan of Arc’s miraculous-seeming career.

06.08.2025 20

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Conspiracies Are Real. The Theories Can Be Traps.

Why it’s a mistake to quickly lock in on a single theory.

02.08.2025 20

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The DOGE Alum Asking if Foreign Aid Is America’s Problem

“We were suckers of the global system for so long.”

31.07.2025 10

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You Can’t Quit America

U.S. power is too big to escape or isolate or ignore.

30.07.2025 20

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How Israel’s War Became Unjust

Even a righteous cause needs a plan to limit suffering and a reasonable path toward peace.

26.07.2025 40

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