https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ross douthat en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/12/douthat-do-tell-some-questions-columnist-longing-good-old-days-american-religion Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart pundits can conceal their very weak thinking by way of subtle appeal to a dangerous nostalgia. Ross Douthat comes to mind, having just offered up… Tue, 12 Apr 2022 03:50:10 EDT Peter Laarman 6c7d1a24-48db-4c13-9664-90e9b4907aeb https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/08/new-york-times-adds-kinder-gentler-anti-gay-authoritarian-christian-its-roster If you’re a progressive American who strives to keep up with the world of news and punditry, I’d wager real money you’ve never thought to yourself, “You know what sort of writer the New York Times desperately needs to add… Wed, 08 Sep 2021 03:38:52 EDT Chrissy Stroop 27447669-751d-40e1-a389-cb79dc41013c https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/10/douthats-criticism-popes-restriction-latin-mass-fascinating-its-also-ahistorical-and-has In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized one of Pope Francis’ most consequential decisions: the July 16 motu proprio—or order—that reimposes restrictions on the Latin Mass preferred by many right-wing Catholics, thus… Tue, 10 Aug 2021 03:57:53 EDT Massimo Faggioli 9afc05b5-3015-42fb-8319-2a7788e9a587 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/07/most-ridiculous-responses-vaticans-call-out-catho-christian-right It’s not surprising that the apparently Vatican-approved denouncement of the conservative Catholic-Christian alliance that has come to dominate U.S. politics ruffled some feathers. What is surprising is the sheer amount of denial and obfuscation that the article in La Civiltà… Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:21:28 EDT Patricia Miller 3741401c-a2da-4f4c-bb8e-af620b7e903b https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/11/catholic-citizenship-massimo-faggioli-role-public-theologians-today Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century, is based on a series of lectures and essays the Villanova professor began publishing and delivering during the 50 th anniversary of Vatican II… Thu, 11 May 2017 12:32:31 EDT Kaya Oakes 8910682f-ac94-4030-8172-555b6e352c13 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/28/irony-moral-panic-over-surplus-men You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough to turn Ross Douthat into FDR. According to Douthat, the “slow burning social crisis” in America of low workforce participation by men and concomitant lagging… Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:44:28 EST Patricia Miller 52d98576-e99e-4f10-8b53-ee004020bf1e https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/20/do-arguments-against-bathroom-equality-hold-water Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow trans students to use the bathroom of their choice has met with the expected opposition, with the arguments against running the gamut from libertarian to… Fri, 20 May 2016 11:14:38 EDT Patricia Miller d1fc184c-cd8a-439d-9532-f99c8328c1e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/18/youre-right-ross-douthat-donald-trump-kind-islam Last summer I shopped around a satire about where Candidate Trump was leading America. Nowhere good. Written from the perspective of a father trying to explain to his daughter why she was no longer an American citizen, the retrospective retold… Wed, 18 May 2016 02:40:15 EDT Haroon Moghul 97d9ac90-99ce-4a8d-bd26-cbabbe4cebba https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/12/pope-francis-gets-real What seems to be bothering conservatives most about Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation A moris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) isn’t that he suggests a poorly lit, somewhat twisting, buried-in-the footnotes penitential path to the resumption of Communion by divorced and… Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:40:29 EDT Patricia Miller dcbad8c5-10c0-4291-9ab9-3128d9f1573b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/10/joined-hip-white-nationalist-christianity-and-donald-trump Why can’t Douthat admit that the apostasy he deplores is at the center of white Christianity and not at the margins? Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:32:01 EST Peter Laarman 88c0e27a-0590-42aa-85f8-9712cd7c885c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/12/ross-douthat-brink Before I tell you why Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column, “ Germany on the Brink,” is so very disturbing, let me make clear that he and I see eye-to-eye on some of the issues he discusses. That we… Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:26:37 EST Haroon Moghul 79ade128-b912-4219-aba3-237a45628659 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/11/out-options-christians-losing-battle-over-equality In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative Christian thinkers have followed two tracks. On the one hand, writers like Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat have used the language of war, battle, and… Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:01:31 EST Kaya Oakes b1618772-d39a-4fd1-b6a4-8cdf6062e281 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/27/own-your-heresy-argument-over-who-gets-do-public-theology-takes-sharp-turn The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “ The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” a timely one given the recent public tussles over the Synod of the Family in Rome. On the same evening… Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:27:20 EDT Kaya Oakes ac4987ee-0740-4d5f-bac0-d47b8f5f3b29 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/19/plot-turn-synod-plot It’s official—with Ross Douthat’s conspiracy-drenched Sunday column, the idea that the synod is somehow a “plot to change Catholicism” has leapt from the far-right Catholic fringe to the conservative Catholic mainstream. Conservatives have been pushing the idea for months that… Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:40:05 EDT Patricia Miller eabe5245-83c6-4f71-941a-cf29438f71bb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/29/springtime-ross-douthat Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the worst thing in the article. To be fair, journalists… Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:58:16 EDT Daniel Schultz 9fcf6426-c7f6-45df-92dd-ff498868ba08 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/17/whos-scared-polygamy-restrained-case-slippery-slope-argument Many rejoiced after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-same marriage nationally in late June. Others jeered. But whatever a person’s take on the Court’s ruling, Americans at this historical moment need to think about what, if anything, comes next for… Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:14:07 EDT William E. Smith 52efded9-b219-461f-91cd-95108cbd2be6 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/28/douthat-conservatives-will-take-their-ball-and-go-home-if-francis-changes-their-church In the New York Times, Ross Douthat cheers the conservative rebuff at the recently concluded family synod of the “implied papal position” favoring liberalization both “in the church’s attitude toward nonmarital relationships” and in “admitting the divorced-and-remarried to communion.” Douthat… Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:45:02 EDT Patricia Miller 82040049-1627-4b74-a713-df2b61a34ce6 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/09/douthat-dionne-push-wrong-lesson-religious-exemptions As the Obama administration is beseeched from both sides about a potential religious exemption to its expected executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT individuals in hiring, Catholic commentators continue to hold up the administration’s botched handling of… Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:26:09 EDT Patricia Miller 9f182147-6978-455e-b85b-a85e9f59d611 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/10/i-agree-douthat-church-cant-accept-gay-marriage The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will decide whether to renew the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty for another three-year term when they meet in New Orleans later this week for their semi-annual general assembly. The Ad Hoc Committee… Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:04:50 EDT Patricia Miller cc2b4d78-4cfe-4d16-af71-86d5477fecd7 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/20/stephen-pinkers-controversial-polemic-defense-scientism-bad-they-say Well, yes and no. Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:10:34 EDT Michael Schulson c7a086fe-b8e9-4731-b411-033343abbab3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/05/do-not-have-sex-man Ross Douthat wants you to have more babies. And he wants you to be married when you have those babies. And not just any babies. He wants you to have American babies—though, if you’re an immigrant, he’ll take your babies, too, because that’s really the only reason to allow immigrants to be here. And he wants you to hurry up and have those American babies, because if you don’t, we’ll run out of workers, and if we run out of workers the United States will get “knocked off its global perch.” Because that’s what’s at stake, ladies and gentlemen—American domination. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:37:15 EST Sarah Sentilles 8083b45c-c418-4b21-8c7d-b3c97784b644 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/05/ross-douthats-missing-pregnant-women Babies don’t grow on trees. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:12:31 EST Sarah Morice-Brubaker eabe69a3-fa4d-4b1b-b775-ecb555d9a3f2 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/17/douthat-church-either-uncompromising-or-secular-den-promiscuity-and-irrelevance A Sweet Valley High primer on liberal Christianity. Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:59:05 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker f495269c-24e0-4a5c-bee3-1927fa89b832 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/02/ross-douthats-rosy-old-time-religion In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion. Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:17:25 EDT Jerome E. Copulsky 9973c479-a934-44e8-bc24-b22bc97ebd8f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/06/ross-douthats-blinders-abortion Public opinion is more complex than his own. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:33 EST Sarah Posner f0129661-0e03-4e84-bfcd-92b8a9a4c10f