Ross Douthat

American author and columnist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1979 · age 46

Ross Gregory Douthat is an American author and conservative columnist, writing for The New York Times. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic and is the film critic for National Review. He has written on religion, politics, and society.

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134 times the usual readers on 9 November. 45,792 readers on 9 November, against about 341 a day before the rise.

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60 Minutes season 59, a new season, came out on 13 September 2026.13 September 2026Sources, 8.9 times the usual readers on 14 September 2026See the moment2021“Conservatism-under-liberalism should defend human goods that are threatened by liberal ideas taken to extremes.”In their words24 April 2021The New York TimesRead the whole statement

2016“The triumph of a raw populism, embodied by a shameless demagogue, over both the official establishment and the official ideology of a major political party.”In their words17 July 2016The New York TimesRead the whole statement

“Trumpism is...a celebrity-driven , forged by its leader’s unique reality-television appeal.”In their words17 July 2016The New York TimesRead the whole statement

2012“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.”In their wordsp. 82Read the whole statement

“For American Catholics, a millennium that John Paul II had hailed as a "new springtime" for Christianity began instead with a wave of revelations about priestly sex abuse.”In their wordsp. 131Read the whole statement

“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.”In their wordsp. 236Read the whole statement

1979Born28 November 1979

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