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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron. Reuters

Crisis or Stasis?

by Ross Douthat | May 11, 2017 | Opinion

After the cascading weirdness of recent Western history, the results from France’s presidential election were strangely … normal. All the hours that Trump-traumatized commentators spent imagining how Marine Le Pen could get from the low 40s to striking distance turned...

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Resist the Internet

by Ross Douthat | Mar 16, 2017 | Opinion

So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I’ve fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class. So now it’s time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk, the...

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Hillary Clinton after her arrival in Cleveland for campaign appearances on Friday. Credit Carlos Barria/Reuters

The Dangers of Hillary Clinton

by Ross Douthat | Oct 26, 2016 | Opinion

The Clinton campaign has suggested in broad ways and subtle ones, isn’t just a vote for a Democrat over a Republican: It’s a vote for safety over risk, steady competence over boastful recklessness, psychological stability in the White House over ungovernable passions....

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How Trump Might Win

by Ross Douthat | Sep 25, 2016 | Opinion

Like a star-crossed baseball team trying to close out a pennant, Hillary Clinton holds an advantage in the race for president that feels real yet not at all reassuring — for her partisans or for Trump fearers worldwide. She just has to hang on seems like the dominant...

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A Union Jack flag flutters next to European Union flags ahead of a visit from Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Opinion: The Myth of Cosmopolitanism

by Ross Douthat | Jul 4, 2016 | Opinion

Now that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives. From now on the great political battles will be...