That's what Douthat does -- perpetuates the zombie lie that spending on anything vaguely progressive is at least as much to blame for bankrupting the nation as spending on corporate largesse, à la the Wall Street bailout.
The New York Observer | Matt Frassica | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Ross Douthat, conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, was made visibly uncomfortable for a moment while onstage last night at the New Sch...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
Not long after Bill Kristol packed up his wrongness as a New York Times columnist, he was replaced by a screwball-throwing rightie out of the Atlantic's farm team named Ross Douthat.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
I appreciate that Ross Douthat is looking for a working-class hero for the future GOP of his book, Grand New Party. The sooner he can bring himself f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
My advice to Sarah Palin would be to do as the old ad copy said: Never let them see you sweat. Don't get involved in a land war with David Letterman.
Elizabeth Debold | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living
It's only been about 50 years since women could control our fertility and begin to forge an identity for ourselves in culture that goes beyond our biological role.
Linda Hirshman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
Today Douthat uses his roughly 1000 word space at the Times website to review the collected works of Dan Brown and educate the public on the fictional nature of his works of, er, fiction.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
If you really want a litmus test of whether the Republican Party is losing elections because they are too far left or too far right, what better way of doing that than running the man who best represents the right?
Linda Hirshman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
What in the world did the New York Times think it was doing with Ross Douthat? Is this the frog that keeps jumping long after its brain function has stopped?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
It seems that Ross Douthat was falsely billed as the new "conservative columnist" -- another "thinking man's" righty like David Brooks, and an upgrade on Bill Kristol.
New York Times | ROSS DOUTHAT | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration's interrogation policies, it's been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party a...
Linda Hirshman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
Douthat may be pulling the discourse rightward from his high perch for a very long time. The Chief Justice John Roberts of punditry.
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
At a luncheon held to celebrate the recent redesign of Commentary under new editor John Podhoretz, I asked Kristol for his thoughts on Ross Douthat, t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media
The Nation's Katha Pollitt apparently saw the need to pen a column objecting to all the people of liberal bent who praised the decision made by the Ne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich has lately been on the scene, attempting to convince people that he owns a portfolio of self-conceived innovations for the GOP and for A...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
The New York Times has made an exceedingly wise and, frankly, exciting choice to tap The Atlantic's Ross Douthat as its new op-ed columnist.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
The New York Times has selected Ross Douthat to replace Bill Kristol on the newspaper's editorial page. Editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal emailed ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Just to button up this rather Limbaugh heavy day, we'll turn to David Frum and Ross Douthat, who both, amid the ongoing "battle for the soul/future/se...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
We're facing more regulation of everything from high finance to the ordinary workplace. The Democrats are expanding Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. And we're talking about mice?
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
McCain's own polling is showing that the race is not nearly as even as the national polls indicate. He knew he had to take a gamble -- and Palin is turning out to be quite a gamble.
David Sirota | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics