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...

/ November 20, 2012

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. ...

/ November 12, 2012

The Meaning of the 2012 Election

Last night’s election is going to be dissected for a long time to come.  Gay marriage passed at the ballot box for the first time, marijuana was legalized in two states, and Republicans generally got it handed to them.  Mitt...

/ November 7, 2012

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...

/ July 16, 2012