Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times since 2009. He is the author of several books, most recently, 鈥淭o Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.鈥�

Douthat: Democrats and Republicans are wrong to escalate the voter suppression vs. fraud war

March 16, 2021 at 12:06 p.m.

Each side is talking like this is an existential fight, with the very concept of a fair democratic election hanging in the balance. But the facts continue to suggest otherwise,...

Douthat: Why do so many Americans think the election was stolen?

December 7, 2020 at 11:05 a.m.

One feature of November did crack my jaded shell a bit: the sheer scale of the belief among conservatives that the election was really stolen from people I would not...

President Donald Trump speaks to the ...

Douthat: We can’t reasonably blame Trump for America’s libertarianism or the CDC’s pandemic failures

September 15, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

The debate over Trump鈥檚 coronavirus culpability divides those who treat the president抖阴ap incompetence or malice or authoritarianism as an emergency that throws every other problem into shadow from those who...

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Douthat: Donald Trump doesn鈥檛 want authority

May 19, 2020 at 5:36 p.m.

When reality made ignoring the pandemic impossible, Trump's only genuinely political impulse -- the only impulse that related to real power and its uses 鈥� was to push the crucial...

Douthat: The coronavirus quagmire

May 13, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

We鈥檙e containing the virus, limiting the damage, preventing worst-case scenarios -- but we aren鈥檛 trying to actually stamp it out.

Bicyclists and pedestrians bike and walk ...

Douthat: When coronavirus lockdowns go too far

April 14, 2020 at 11:08 a.m.

鈥淚f you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don鈥檛 be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows!鈥�

Douthat: The road to semi-normal

April 6, 2020 at 3:39 p.m.

In between is the phase we may inhabit into 2021: The time of semi-normalcy, when strictures are partially lifted, the economy partially reopened, social and cultural life partially resumed. And...

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Douthat: Falling ill, testing negative

March 24, 2020 at 11:55 a.m.

I felt, a bit idiotically, that if I was savvy enough I could stay one step ahead of the virus.

This illustration provided by the Centers ...

Douthat: The coronavirus is more than a disease. It抖阴ap a test.

February 25, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

Media hysteria quickly envelops every major story. So it has been striking to watch media coverage of the coronavirus take a somewhat more muted tack these past few weeks.

Anti-war protesters ended up in front ...

Douthat: Trump’s brutal Jacksonian counter-punch may land us a peace-loving Jeffersonian

January 10, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.

Trump's Jacksonian tactical approach -- in the Soleimani case, picking the most surprising and dramatic option on the military board of retaliatory options 鈥� is unlikely to serve his official...

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