Ross DouthatVerified account

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New York Times columnist, National Review film critic, author of To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism (Simon and Schuster, 2018).

New Haven, CT
Joined April 2012

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    Mar 14

    Time for a thread for my new book, "To Change the Church," on the Francis pontificate and the Catholic future, officially available in hardcover/ebook/audiobook on March 27:

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  2. Joking aside it is a significant development that a journalist close to Pope Francis is now citing sources confirming Benedict's highly-ineffective attempt to restrict McCarrick.

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  4. My Sunday column (a day later): Thwarting Trump, or the Voters?:

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    14 hours ago

    In today I argue that the big problems plaguing today - strategic monotony, strikeouts, slow pace, pitching changes and injuries - stem from one thing: MLB ballparks are too small. 1/10

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  7. Sep 7

    If modernity sterilizes us all at least we'll get a chastened Steven Pinker out of it.

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  8. Sep 6

    I find the framework here consistently useful, if also a touch too optimistic about how long we might be "stuck between regimes" and what the next one might look like:

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  10. Sep 6

    What the Trump-steering staffers are doing is perfectly defensible. Telling Bob Woodward all about it or writing an op-ed praising yourself for doing it, less so.

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  11. Sep 6
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  12. Sep 6

    Pretty sure Amy Coney Barrett never talked to anyone at Dewey Cheetham and Howe or whatever about the Mueller investigation. Just saying.

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    Sep 5

    If an anonymous Op-ed piece ever appears in The NYTimes disparaging my good name, know now it was written by Michael Dorn.

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  14. Sep 5

    I agree with much of what says here, but as somewhat famously un-averse to 25th Amendment remedies I don't see a clear obligation to pursue them with no reasonable hope of success.

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  15. Sep 5

    There is no tribal incentive to simultaneously believe that Trump is totally unfit and that some version of populism deserved to triumph over the worldview embodied in The Op-Ed. But still both things are true.

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  16. Sep 5

    Among other things The Op-Ed's "free men and free markets" cant (sorry, Reason friends!) is a reminder that if the GOP establishment had to do it all over again they'd still lose to Trump.

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  17. Sep 5

    (Basically nobody tells me anything around here.)

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  18. Sep 5

    I think I should say that I had zero foreknowledge of what my op-ed page was about to drop when I wrote this piece:

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    Sep 5
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  21. Sep 5

    People who think my newspaper shouldn’t have published The Op-Ed are nuts. People who think its author shouldn’t have written it are reasonable.

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