Tough to be a man! Or a woman! Or even just a little kid. But stuff happens, as Donnie Rumsfeld liked to say, and this is some of the stuff that’s happening. First up is the good news: Paul Krugman is cool! I’ve frequently though not necessarily bitched about the way the Krugman too often,…
Tag: Ross Douthat
2020 startin’ off moist! “Conservatives” wet their pants with joy, liberals with fear, while only the hypocrites stay dry
Happy New Year, n’est-ce pas? Or, perhaps more appropriately, WTF? I’m getting too old for this shit, and I didn’t sign up for it in the first place. In the old days, like December 31, 2019, one of the harshest, and truest, charges against Vladimir Putin is that he carried out the assassination of people…
Trump’s grotesque perversions of American foreign policy to ensure his own re-election probably not that big a deal, Ross Douthat explains
Yeah, sure, Donald Trump is awful, but he’s probably not that awful, you know? You know? And even if he is, well, who cares? You’ve got money in your pocket and the sun is shining, isn’t it? Let those Beltway blowhards blow as hard as they please, getting all hot and bothered because Donald Trump…
Want to take your eye OFF the ball? Eli Lake, Ross Douthat, and Ramesh Ponnuru can help!
Did you know that Nikki Haley’s defense of Donald Trump contains a significant logical contradiction? Did you know that there are good reasons for rejecting the impeachment of Donald Trump, but these same reasons also argue against his reelection? Did you know that Donald Trump’s and Barack Obama’s policies towards Ukraine, while different from one…
The irresistible charm of the outlier updated: New York Times Edition
It seems like only yesterday—because it was— that I was riffing on the tendency of the lamestream media (and everyone else) to generalize on the follies of our times not on the average but the extreme, to wit, an article in the Washington Post decrying the alleged abysmal performance of the Arlington County, Va. English…
Shorter Ross: We’re almost as bad as the Jews
Alas, poor Douthat! Ross Douthat, I mean, who bravely assumes the task of explaining why he will celebrate another Christmas as a Catholic, despite the, um, unending revelations of unending horrors of sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup that have plagued the Church for the last, I don’t know, twenty or thirty years. To explain his…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru: “We don’t need no lousy, stinkin’ Independent Judiciary!”
Yes, I may have condensed (slightly) Mr. Ponnuru’s sentiments, so let me provide some backstory. A few days back, as Politico’s Matthew Choi reports, a federal district court judge in California, Judge Jon Tigar, ruled against President Trump in an immigration case, causing the president, unsurprisingly, to bellow in rage, claiming that Tigar ruled the…
#MeToo Comes for the Archbishop, and for Ross Douthat
A couple of weeks ago I pounded Mr. Douthat rather heavily, in a short piece titled Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”, ridiculing the poor man for sighing over the faded plumage of the Catholic Church in a column he called “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, noting that “recently, all 34 Chilean bishops have offered to…
Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”
Just two weeks ago, NYT papist in chief Ross Douthat had a column, “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, urging a return to the good old days, saying that the Church should reclaim its rightful role “as a full alternative culture in its own right — one that reclaims the inheritance on display at the Met,1 glories…
The Snake at the Table
A month ago, thoughtful conservative Ross Douthat wrote a column, “The Necessity of Stephen Miller”, in which he argued that if liberals want a deal on immigration, they’re going to have to allow White House dude Stephen Miller a place at the table. Yes, Ross acknowledges, El Stevo has views on immigration that are at…