Ross Douthat
Conservative columnist and author who joined CBS News' 60 Minutes as a correspondent in 2026, after writing an Opinion column at The New York Times from 2009 to 2026; author of Bad Religion (2012), The Decadent Society (2020) and Believe (2025).
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Their wordsAnd finally, I critiqued the elite consensus because it desperately needed elite critics, and lacking them it was constantly tempted into overreach.
↗Who Are the Good Guys and the Bad Guys? I’m No Longer Sure.nytimes.com
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Their wordsAnd the Trumpified Republican Party is in real danger of losing the Senate, with reddish seats from Iowa to Texas to Alaska increasingly vulnerable.
↗Trump’s Decade of Comebacks Might Be Overnytimes.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Trump’s willingness to drop a failing policy and call it a win is one of his political strengths.
Their wordsOne of Trump’s political strengths is his willingness to cut bait on an unsuccessful policy, to sell a walk-back as a victory rather than doubling or trebling down.
↗Trump’s Decade of Comebacks Might Be Overnytimes.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordssince Americans never really bought into the case for war in the first place, even a bad deal should help the White House’s political position through the effect on gas prices alone.
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Their wordsAnd for good reason, because Nolan’s film is perfectly calibrated for the contemporary culture war.
↗It Is Banal, Bland, Thin and Didactic. We Can’t Stop Talking About It.nytimes.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThen, having plucked the ripest fruit, Nolan proceeded to serve it in the blandest form.
↗It Is Banal, Bland, Thin and Didactic. We Can’t Stop Talking About It.nytimes.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBecause I think that the Iran war has been a folly and a snare, I have greatly preferred this version of the Vance vice presidency to the version that seemed subsumed into id-driven conservative politics.
↗Why Vance Still Trumps Rubionytimes.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsRubio’s performance vis-à-vis Iran has often been a profile in evasion, letting other officials take risks to either own the war or seek a peace while he keeps his options open.
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Their wordsThe United States is behaving as though frontier A.I. models could be the equivalent of nuclear weapons, offering an immensely destructive form of power that requires a careful and jealous watch.
↗China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’snytimes.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsMeanwhile, China treats the models that its companies produce as the equivalent of nuclear energy, a lower-risk technology to be shared and commercialized to win friends and influence the world and undermine the advantages of the American A.I. giants.
↗China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’snytimes.com 2nd of 2 in this piece