What Ross Douthat thinks about politics
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 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.
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