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A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism. - Ross Douthat
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Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print. - Ross Douthat
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It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized. - Ross Douthat
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Jewish Americans weren't just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success. - Ross Douthat
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Fox News is really two news networks. It's a center right news network that has good, solid, interesting coverage if you're watching Chris Wallace or the panel on 'Special Report' or anything like that. Then, it has what Hannity and others like him do, which is just a sort of tribal identity politics for older white people. - Ross Douthat
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Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own. - Ross Douthat
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When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do. - Ross Douthat
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Trump could also only win the presidency without a popular-vote majority because a large region of the country, the greater Rust Belt and Appalachia, had been neglected by both parties' policies over the preceding decades, leading to a slow-building social crisis that the national press only really noticed because of Trump's political success. - Ross Douthat
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Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. - Ross Douthat
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The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever. - Ross Douthat
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I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily. - Ross Douthat
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I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think that Trump is benefiting from the weakening of religious participation. He's winning evangelicals who aren't in church. - Ross Douthat
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I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs. - Ross Douthat
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Like most places, America has always had potent strains of anti-Semitism - crude and polished, K.K.K. and country club. But unlike many places, we have always had important strains of philo-Semitism as well; there is a long American tradition, with both Protestant and Enlightenment roots, of really liking Judaism and the Jews. - Ross Douthat
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That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones. - Ross Douthat
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Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own. - Ross Douthat
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If we had a populist president who didn't alienate so many persuadable voters, who took full advantage of a strong economy, and who had the political cunning displayed by Modi or Benjamin Netanyahu or Viktor Orban, the liberal belief in a hidden left-of-center mandate might be exposed as a fond delusion. - Ross Douthat
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On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed. - Ross Douthat
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Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it. - Ross Douthat
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Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected. - Ross Douthat
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It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism. - Ross Douthat
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