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Ross Douthat

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Does U.F.O. Disclosure Threaten Faith?

Does U.F.O. Disclosure Threaten Faith?

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ and the God-and-aliens debate.

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Let’s Get Something Clear About America’s National Identity

It depends on both ideas and cultural inheritance.

09.06.2026 6

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When Is It Wrong to Use A.I.?

How to criticize an inevitable disruption.

06.06.2026 20

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The MAGA Representative Crusading Against Government Secrecy

The MAGA Representative Crusading Against Government Secrecy

Anna Paulina Luna on Epstein, J.F.K. and U.F.O.s.

05.06.2026 30

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Graham Platner and the Amoral Center

Why a morally divided country might find sleazy candidates reassuring.

02.06.2026 10

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The Best News in America

A low murder rate is by no means the only measure of a good society. But it’s a pretty good measure of a society’s underlying stability.

30.05.2026 20

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Pope Leo Isn’t Standing Athwart the Singularity

He is both a critic and a normalizer of artificial intelligence.

27.05.2026 30

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The New A.I. Money Should Be Spent on Beauty

Leave a physical legacy to future generations, not just a record of programs and disbursements.

23.05.2026 60

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How I Lost a Religion

Lessons from sports fandom on why traditions fade.

19.05.2026 10

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Is America in Decline and China Rising? Not for Long.

Does Xi Jinping see the world this way?

16.05.2026 60

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The Crisis of the West Isn’t About Who Governs, but That No One Can

The crisis of the West isn’t about who governs, but that no one can.

12.05.2026 10

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The Atheist and the Machine God

What are the implications of artificial intelligence for religion?

09.05.2026 50

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Trump’s Ukraine Policy Is Succeeding While His Iran Policy Flails

With Ukraine, you can glimpse the shape of success.

05.05.2026 10

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Slouching Toward Kamala Harris

The Democrats’ fundamental condition is a late-Trumpian stasis.

02.05.2026 100

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The Political Malpractice of Elon Musk

His political malpractice will loom large in the history of Trump 2.0.

25.04.2026 50

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Does Israel Want to Be Saudi Arabia?

Americans hold Israel to a higher standard than their other allies. That’s a good thing.

21.04.2026 10

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What Liberals Should Learn From the End of Orbanism

Four lessons to consider.

18.04.2026 20

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Trump’s Blasphemy Is a Warning

Presidents can fight with popes. God is another matter.

14.04.2026 10

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Trump Has Fallen Into a Familiar U.S. Foreign Policy Trap

American power can survive America’s recurring overreach.

11.04.2026 40

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The Idealism of the Space Program Isn’t Enough

We’re racing a civilizational clock.

07.04.2026 10

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Trump Needs Smarter Sycophants

Loyal losers don’t go very far with this president.

04.04.2026 20

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Can Christianity Be Restored to the Center of American Life?

Why none of America’s faiths have taken mainline Protestantism’s place.

31.03.2026 20

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Is Religion Reviving or Declining? Both.

On the debate over the future of religious faith, and if it is expanding or not, in America.

28.03.2026 60

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Iran’s ‘Nuclear’ Option

How U.S. strategy encouraged mutually assured destruction.

24.03.2026 30

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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 40

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Trump Struck Iran Because He Sensed Weakness

Has his unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?

03.03.2026 20

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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 30

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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 50

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

What a declassification effort could help us resolve.

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What the American Right Wants From Europe

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

18.02.2026 90

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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 150

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A.I. May Put Progressives to the Test

The left needs a sharper A.I. politics.

11.02.2026 60

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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 30

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Vice and the Crisis of Liberalism

Is there a political prescription for our era of addiction?

04.02.2026 60

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Pay More Attention to A.I.

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

01.02.2026 80

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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 60

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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 20

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What Restrains Trump Now?

The president needs counterforces to save him from himself.

21.01.2026 100

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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 50

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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 80

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A Future for Confession

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

08.01.2026 40

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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 60

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

Does discrimination drive alienation?

17.12.2025 100

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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 30

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The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself

Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.

03.12.2025 50

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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 40

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What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?

Notes on an unstable but necessary idea.

19.11.2025 30

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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 50

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What the Movies Need From Sydney Sweeney

Only stardom can save Hollywood.

13.11.2025 20

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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 30

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