Tag: Ross Douthat
Stability and “Creative Destruction” in the Home and Economy
Ross Douthat, from a column that is in the running for the best of the year: What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America’s local associations — civic, familial, religious — to foster stability, encourage solidarity...
The Election Disaster? Social Conservatives and Hope
Since the election, conservative evangelical handwringing over the future has reached something of a fevered pitch. Al Mohler has been the loudest voice, pronouncing the election a “disaster” for social conservatives, a point that was repeated by my friend Denny Burk. ...
The Dim Future for Liberal Protestantism: Douthat and O’Donovan Together
I haven’t said much about Ross Douthat’s new book Bad Religion, in part because I’ve found it hard to think straight about a book that commends “mere orthodoxy” as a form of Christian public engagement. But unlike Chesterton, who gets there through...