No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult…

- Ross Douthat

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

- Ross Douthat

One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why …

- Ross Douthat

I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is t…

- Ross Douthat

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

- Ross Douthat

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christian…

- Ross Douthat

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

- Ross Douthat

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have …

- Ross Douthat

Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where I…

- Ross Douthat