A Non-Conspiracy of Douthat’s
The New York Times’ Ross Douthat acknowledges the obvious parallel between gay and interracial marriage–and meets it head on with a full helping of historical ignorance.
Douthat’s Tales of the Shocking Parallel Universe Pelosi Calls Home
The New York Times‘ Ross Douthat (11/15/10) warns us about the nightmare world that “Nancy Pelosi and her compatriots” live in: It’s a world where the Social Security retirement age never budges, no matter how high average life expectancy climbs. Shudder! Luckily, Pelosi and co.’s world seems to have diverged from ours around 2003, when […]
Defending Arizona: It’s U.S.’s Fault for Not Wrecking Lives, Damaging Economy
Ross Douthat has a New York Times column today (5/3/10) criticizing those who are “impugning the motives” of the new Arizona immigration law, which has been denounced as a “Nazi” or “near-fascist” law, a “police state” intervention, an imitation of “apartheid,” a “Juan Crow” regime that only a bigot could possibly support. Really, says Douthat, […]
Rewriting Ratzinger’s Record to Create a Hero of the Abuse Scandal
While FAIR Blog complained earlier (3/30/10) that coverage of the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal was overlooking Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s involvement in the story before he became Pope Benedict XVI, yesterday two prominent op-eds focused on this history. Unfortunately, both op-eds present a highly selective version of Ratzinger’s role. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat […]
Douthat: Green Zone Was Fictional, But Not in the Right Way
Offering a critique of the Iraq War drama Green Zone, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (3/15/10) offers a “narrative of the Iraq invasion, properly told,” that ends with: And you had Saddam Hussein himself, the dictator in his labyrinth, apparently convinced that pretending to have WMD was the best way to keep his […]
NYT Columnist: Forfeit Roe, Save Doctors!
In Tuesday’s New York Times online edition, the paper’s neo-neo-con columnist Ross Douthat laid out a sprawling argument that seemed to conclude that pro-choice activists and the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling were responsible for violence against women’s healthcare providers, including the murder of Dr. George Tiller last week. “If anything, by enshrining a […]
Liberal Blogger Men Love Conservative Columnist Man
Resisting the tide of “liberal blogger men” who “are thrilled with the New York Times‘ appointment of 29-year-old Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat to replace William Kristol on the op-ed page,” Katha Pollitt (Nation, 3/18/09) contrasts the fact that “Douthat is best known for his conservative Catholicism (abortion is murder, frozen embryos are children, contraception kills […]
