Ross Douthat

Hooray For Heretics

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.04.2012

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Conservatives like Douthat, who pine for a mythical version of a church-centered postwar world, might lament that, but I say thank God for heretics. They broaden our minds and deepen our spirits.

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The Relationship Between Christianity and Capitalism

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.20.2012

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The Dangers of Contraception Revealed

Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Ross Douthat, Abortion Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Birth Control Debate, Contraception Debate, Marriage Rates, Birth Control Pill, Birth Control, Divorce Rates, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Politics News

There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.

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Why Ross Douthat Thinks We're 'A Nation Of Heretics'

Posted 04.18.2012

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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book "Bad Religion: How We Became...

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Grumpy Conservatives Survey Post-Iowa Scene

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Red State, Pat Caddell, Kellyanne Conway, National Review, Peggy Noonan, Ross Douthat, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, John Dickerson, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Slate, John LeBoutillier, Weekly Standard, American Conservative, Michele Bachmann, Fred Barnes, Erick Erickson, Daniel Larison, Fox News, Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Jim Geraghty, John Thune, Mike Huckabee, Media News

The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."

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Ross Douthat's Hit Job on JFK

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.28.2012

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Ross Douthat is out of his league this week. His piece "evaluating" the presidency of John F. Kennedy is so thoughtless and partisan it doesn't deserve its high perch in the nation's "paper of record".

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Independence Day Greetings from a Marriage "Liberationist"

Katherine Franke | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Ross Douthat, Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, It Gets Better Project, It Gets Better, Dan Savage, Marriage Liberation, Gay Marriage Rights, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Why not be an advocate for extra-marital forms of commitment? Remember, marriage is, after all, a license -- and the state stays involved as a third party in the deal and its rules are non-negotiable.

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Bill Kristol's Attempt To Promote Paul Ryan 2012 Candidacy Falls Flat, But Coming Fight Over Spending Holds Wild Cards

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Ross Douthat, 2012 Election, Bill Kristol, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- An attempt by conservative author Bill Kristol to excite interest in the idea of a presidential run by Republican congressman Paul Ryan ...

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Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending

Susie Bright | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last I checked, George "God-Is-Speaking-Thru-Me" Bush is no longer the POTUS. Why do we still have to listen to these people, over and over again, on the front pages of our country's most prestigious newspapers?

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Obama W. Bush Does His Banana Republic Thing

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hosni Mubarak, Frank Wisner, Ross Douthat, Robert Fisk, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, World News

When Noam Chomsky or Ralph Nader or Glenn Greenwald or Paul Krugman or Chris Hedges or any number of Obama's leftwing critics call him a disgrace and ...

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Three Polls and One Book to Remember While Watching Results

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Let's remember what a midterm election is and is not. It is not a national referendum. It is not launching a new political era. Voters still want government to be effective.

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America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Winkler, JP Morgan Chase, Ross Douthat, Wells Fargo, Media, Federal Reserve, Main Street, Pay Czar, Wall Street Journal, Politics, Center of American Progress, Wall Street Crisis, New York Times, The Administration, Tarp, Wall-Street-Bonuses, Goldman Sachs, Financial Fix, Business News

What galls most Americans is the manner in which Wall Street rewarded itself after it was the public that took the risk of bailing them out.

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Everybody Knows Times Op-Ed Columnists are Lazy

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's bad enough to pollute America's top editorial real estate with lazy thinking, reporting and writing. It's worse to do so in support on unsubstantiated conclusions with large implications for the lives of millions of Americans.

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The Myth of Beck's 'Apolitical' Event

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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But just because Beck didn't bring his campaign of hysterical fear-mongering to its logical conclusion doesn't make the event apolitical.

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Mitch Daniels, 2012's Answer to Fred Thompson

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Everybody agreed that Galba would make an excellent emperor, until he became emperor." Substitute "became emperor" with "formed an exploratory committee to run for president," and you have Mitch Daniels circa fall 2011.

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The Proposed Lower Manhattan Islamic Center Deserves Nuanced Discussion, Not GOP Fear Mongering

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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When you throw religion, politics and a seminal tragic event in modern American history into a pot, it's going to get sticky, messy and potentially unpleasant. Such a cocktail requires a thoughtful discussion.

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Gay Marriage: What Do We Really Mean?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Times, in its constant effort to stay ahead of the heckling of the right wing, hired the 31-year-old Ross Douthat to be its No. 2 conserv...

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The Summer That Resurrected the Cult of White Victimhood

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Race, Jim Webb, Ross Douthat, Affirmative Action, Politics News

Hysterical white people are all over the media screaming to whomever is listening that white people are under attack in America. The key word here, though, is "resurrection," for this hysteria is nothing new.

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Conservative too good a word for Tea Party, Fox News and Newt Gingrich

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Ross Douthat, Lindsay Graham, Naacp, David Brooks, Politics News

"Conservative" is way too good a word for the Tea Party and Fox News. This war of words is the first battle that the rest of us must fight, because "conservative" in truth has an honorable ring.

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Class Creeps Into Our Times

Joan Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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What a difference a generation makes. William Kristol's replacement on The New York Times' editorial page, Ross Douthat, brings a class consciousness that has been lacking in the Times for as long as I can remember.

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Sam Stein On 'Ed Show': Time For Birthers To 'Move On To The Real Issues' (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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HuffPost reporter Sam Stein joined guest host Chris Hayes and New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat for the "Rapid Fire" segment of Monday nig...

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Why Are Liberals so Angry With President Obama?

Shadi Hamid | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new conventional wisdom is emerging: more and more liberals seem to be disillusioned with President Obama when they should actually be grateful, pre...

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Rand Paul's Enablers

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Bp, Civil Rights Act, Rand Paul, Oil Spill, Ross Douthat, Jim Demint, Racism, New York Times, Socialism, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News

If Rand Paul, who may well get elected to the US Senate in November, is saying things that make more buttoned up Republicans feel uncomfortable, these conservatives have only themselves to blame.

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NYT's Douthat: Tea Party And Other Populist Moments Mask Power Elite

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York Times columnist Ross Douthat contends that in this seemingly "populist moment" -- where public discontent appears to be in full flower -- behind the scenes, all of the existing power structures are retrenching.

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Ross Douthat Is Mature and You're Not

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Green Zone, Iraq War, Iraq, Matt Damon, Ross Douthat, Douthat, Paul Greengrass, Politics News

When right-wingers have nothing substantive to say, they play the Vice-Principal card and call you "immature." Such, we are told, is the new Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon action film The Green Zone.

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