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NYTimes columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020) and The Deep Places (2021), jottings at https://douthat.substack.com 

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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 24 Sep 2019

      Comparisons of Greta Thunberg to Joan of Arc are, among other things, a reminder that Joan of Arc is one of the most extraordinary figures in all of recorded human history.

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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 24 Sep 2019

      Imagine if Thunberg showed up in New York City and announced that God had commanded her to make Al Gore president, shamed him into running for president, assumed leadership of his presidential campaign, accurately predicted a sequence of primary victories and setbacks ...

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 24 Sep 2019

      ... and that isn't even the half of it. It should be a cause for French smugness (alas) that of all the nations with saints and military saviors, their case feels the most flagrant in its supernaturalism, its Old Testament flavor, its sheer ridiculous unlikelihood.

      8:47 AM - 24 Sep 2019
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        1. American Idealist‏ @MurcanIdealist 24 Sep 2019
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          ..saying this from Trump's America.

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        2. Legitimist LARPer‏ @Benevolentrwds 24 Sep 2019
          Replying to @lexbarreira @DouthatNYT

          The saints are always worth tweeting about.

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        2. Jonathan Dale‏ @orbidale 24 Sep 2019

          He doesn't know.

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        1. Occam’s Nair‏ @Gefilthio1 24 Sep 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT

          France got pretty green using nuclear power. What would Miss of Arc say about that?

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        1. Richard Greydanus‏ @rgrydns 24 Sep 2019
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          Or is clever chronologists making it seem like she had claimed those things with the advantage of hindsight...also kind of like the prophets in the OT.

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        1. Matt‏ @Emptyset09 24 Sep 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT

          Wonderful thread. Joan of Arc is one of my favorite figures. You've inspired me to find a good biography of her

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        1. Phillip Ruland‏ @Rulo123 24 Sep 2019
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          Let’s hope the young lady fares better in the end than Saint Joan.🙏

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        1. Saintsimon‏ @jestofsalome 24 Sep 2019
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          let's see if I get this - if a 15 year old girl, taught by parents, schools etc to be terrified of coming nuclear war, had risen in UN during the Cuban missile crisis and begged Kennedy to back down and unilaterally disarm, and he'd done it, it would have worked out beautifully?

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