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<title><![CDATA[Ross Douthat - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14581.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ross Douthat]]></description><category domain="14581">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[J.D. Vance on His Faith &amp; Trump&rsquo;s Most Controversial Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/jd-vance-pope-trump-immigration.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On this episode of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Interesting Times,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('').';' Ross Douthat interviews Vice President JD Vance about the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s deportations, the tariff backlash and how Vance'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s faith influences his politics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With DeSantis Reeling, What About Tim Scott?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/29/with-desantis-reeling-what-about-tim-scott/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I argued that despite his stagnation in the polls, for Republicans (and non-Republicans) who would prefer that Donald]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Go Ahead. Debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/24/go-ahead-debate-robert-f-kennedy-jr/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my younger and more vulnerable years, I was asked to fill in for a debate on the shores of Nantucket, after a last-minute cancellation by a more prominent combatant. The subject was God and religion, and I served as defender of faith against the prosecutorial efforts of Christopher...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Beginning To Feel a Lot Like 2016 Again]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/06/its-beginning-to-feel-a-lot-like-2016-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Around the time that Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, there was a lot of chatter about how anti-Trump Republicans]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why DeSantis Has To Run]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/15/why-desantis-has-to-run/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The resurgence of Donald Trump in the 2024 primary polls, the unsurprising evidence that his supporters will stand by him]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The First Afterlife of Pope Benedict XVI]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/01/the-first-afterlife-of-pope-benedict-xvi/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first pope to resign was Celestine V, born Pietro Da Morrone, who was living the life of a pious hermit when he was elevated to the papacy in 1294, in his 80s, to break a two-year deadlock in the College of Cardinals. Feeling overmastered by the job, he soon resigned in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/virginia-democrats-republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats probably need a new way to talk about race and education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Only Answer to Keep Privacy Is Less Internet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/opinion/china-internet-privacy.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our emerging post-privacy order isn't quite totalitarian, but it's getting there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Delivering a Better Republican Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/opinion/trump-doctrine-venezuela-afghanistan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years into his presidency Donald Trump has no clear legislative strategy, no policy agenda, no plan for remedying his persistent unpopularity and a path to re-election sufficiently bleak that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s trying to bait a political na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'f, the Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz, into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Staying Catholic at Christmas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/opinion/catholic-christmas-church.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Gospel reading for the scandal in the church.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Hoping for Democrats to Win the House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/sunday/midterms-elections-2018-senate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative case for a Republican Senate and a Democratic House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Did Pope Francis Know?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/opinion/pope-francis-catholic-church-resign.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Church needs leaders who can purge corruption even among their own theological allies. The pope is failing that test.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alfie Evans and the Experts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/alfie-evans-and-the-experts.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why decent societies let families defy the system to take care of their own.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Among the Abortion Extremists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/among-the-abortion-extremists.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Kevin Williamson and his critics have in common.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/opinion/trump-facebook-cambridge-analytica-media.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=opinion&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=4&amp;pgtype=sect</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was television, not Facebook, that made him president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power to the Parents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/parents-teenagers-voting.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Give kids the franchise '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but let their parents exercise it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump So Far Is More Farce Than Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/sunday/trump-so-far-is-more-farce-than-tragedy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our president is an authoritarian in his Twitter feed and nowhere else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A War Trump Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/opinion/sunday/war-trump-islamic-state.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defeat of the Islamic State is part of a surprisingly effective Middle East approach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Goes Moore, So Goes Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/opinion/alabama-moore-trumpism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A defeat in Alabama should inspire a course correction in the White House '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but it won't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Baker and the Empire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/opinion/masterpiece-cakeshop-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In search of a less existential politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Angela Merkel's Failure May Be Just What Europe Needs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/angela-merkel-germany-liberalism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The chancellor's inability to form a coalition government could push continental elites to become more accountable to the public.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What if Ken Starr Was Right?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/what-if-ken-starr-was-right.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Revisiting the 1990s and realizing that impeachment was reasonable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pigs of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-harassment-liberals.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein and the predations of progressive men.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/hugh-hefner.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Empty Majority]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/republicans-douthat-politics.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When we think about the ebb and flow of majorities in American politics, we like to imagine that there is a clear link between politics and policy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' between gaining power and having an agenda to implement, between winning votes and responding to substantive challenges, between...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Notes on a Political Shooting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/opinion/notes-on-a-political-shooting.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Unfit and Needs to Be Removed From Office]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/opinion/25th-amendment-trump.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was just three days and a lifetime ago that I wrote a column about Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfitness for the presidency that affected a world-weary tone. Nothing about this White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chaos was surprising given the style of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign, I argued. None of the breaking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Resist the Internet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/resist-the-internet.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Different Bargain on Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/opinion/sunday/a-different-bargain-on-race.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump's Presidency Be Saved?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/sunday/can-this-presidency-be-saved.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ross Douthat</author>
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