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Ross Douthat

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How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment

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 30

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

Does discrimination drive alienation?

17.12.2025 50

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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 5

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The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself

Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.

03.12.2025 20

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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 30

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What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?

Notes on an unstable but necessary idea.

19.11.2025 20

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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 7

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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 4

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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 30

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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 60

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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 100

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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 30

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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 6

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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 6

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The Conservative Principle Behind the Kimmel Suspension

A civic-minded purpose is key.

20.09.2025 9

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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 50

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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 40

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Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Scandal?

Even compelling debunkings don’t eliminate the mystery.

10.09.2025 30

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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 20

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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 20

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Small Bookstores and the Future of Liberalism

A retreat from partisan politics, wokeness and optimism.

27.08.2025 4

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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 40

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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 20

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Why Did God Favor France?

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

06.08.2025 40

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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 50

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What if the Government Believes in U.F.O.s More Than You Do?

The skies — and the government — could be hiding more than we know.

25.07.2025 70

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No One Controls MAGA — Not Even Trump

Even the president has to negotiate with his base.

23.07.2025 60

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She Exposed Epstein, and Shares MAGA’s Anger

The reporter who took down Jeffrey Epstein on what’s still hidden.

19.07.2025 10

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The YouTube Host Defining Conservative Christianity

How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.

17.07.2025 80

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What Do Conservatives Offer Universities?

Contrarianism and neutrality can’t overcome progressive groupthink.

16.07.2025 10

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Who Is Winning the World War?

American foreign policy needs both a better long-term strategy and a lot of short-term Trumpian flexibility.

12.07.2025 10

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Israel’s Moral Balance Beam

The columnist Bret Stephens on what’s at stake for the Middle East and American Jews.

10.07.2025 40

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Musk’s Third Party Starts With a Good Idea

Is there a way to elect an independent bloc of senators?

09.07.2025 20

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Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts

The various ways that the G.O.P. legislation doesn’t address itself to America’s most important problems.

05.07.2025 100

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Did the ‘Deep State’ Invent the U.F.O. Craze?

Toward a unified theory of an extremely weird situation.

02.07.2025 10

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

A conversation with the original tech right power player.

26.06.2025 70

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The Progressive Regulator With Trumpist Fans

Lina Khan wants to overthrow “the autocrats of trade.”

19.06.2025 30

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Four Thoughts on Trump’s Hawkish Turn on Iran

Why the president is disappointing noninterventionists.

18.06.2025 20

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Why the Euthanasia Slope Is Slippery

Canada’s assisted suicide law should tell us something about the bill that New York’s Legislature just passed.

14.06.2025 10

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Why Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Defines the Right

A historian of conservatism explains what holds a fractious coalition together.

12.06.2025 5

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The Biggest Mystery of Elon Musk

How did the great rocketeer become a deficit scold?

08.06.2025 20

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What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?

The showrunner Tony Gilroy on the political ideologies of “Andor.”

05.06.2025 10

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