Ross Douthat
The New York Times
New Haven, CT, United States
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Past articles by Ross:
Opinion | My Fantasy Bookshelf
Vacation readings of mythic proportions. → Read More
What the Writers’ Strike Means for the Future of Hollywood
How will the conflict change the stories we tell onscreen? → Read More
Opinion | Trump’s Lesson for the Media and Ron DeSantis
What two groups — network producers and executives as well as rival Republican presidential candidates — can take away from the CNN town hall. → Read More
Opinion | Can the Meritocracy Survive Without the SAT?
Institutions may settle for a new type of elitism. → Read More
Douthat: The U.S. has made a coldly logical decision in Ukraine. So has Russia.
We are closer to the irrationality of fighting for years in a war that neither side can fully hope to win. → Read More
Opinion | Five Rules for an Aging World
Why demography may be shaping up to be a bigger risk to the world than climate change. → Read More
Opinion | Will Nostalgia Kill the British Right?
A yearning for the 1980s meets a very 21st century kind of European crisis. → Read More
Opinion | What Driving Means for America
The civic and psychic benefits of life behind the wheel. → Read More
Opinion | The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning
An improbable anti-abortion triumph yields an uncertain political future. → Read More
Can These Movies Save the Movies?
Two new offerings give a glimpse of what films once were and might become again. → Read More
Opinion | Trump and Sanders Opened Doors. Inflation Is Closing Them.
What a climate of fiscal constraint means for the populist right and the socialist left. → Read More
Opinion | We Can’t Be Ukraine Hawks Forever
A hawkish policy has worked so far. A hawkish grand strategy is still unrealistic. → Read More
Opinion | Why Would John Eastman Want to Overturn an Election for Trump?
Why he was so eager to foment a constitutional crisis. → Read More
Can Liberalism Thrive Without a Wolf at the Door?
The Ukraine War could inspire a reassessment of what liberalism should seek to be. → Read More
Opinion | Why We Need Wartime Dissent
The reasons to doubt the wisdom of our foreign policy establishment have not suddenly evaporated. → Read More
Opinion | ‘My Fellow Americans’: Four Times Columnists Channel Joe Biden
We will start again — and we will start now. → Read More
A New Class War Comes to Canada
In the trucker protests, it’s meritocrats versus populists and the virtual against the physical. → Read More
Opinion | Will a Mask Debate Split Blue States?
The growing normalcy divide within liberal America. → Read More
How to Retreat From Ukraine
Searching for a non-disastrous way back from American overreach. → Read More
Opinion | What Is Joe Biden Thinking?
The strange strategy of a staggering presidency. → Read More