Ross Douthat+

Contra French on Christianity's Decline

Has America become a more Christian society as Americans have become less Christian?

The Other Person in the Illness

Motherhood and marriage in the shadow of a husband's strange disease.

Between Neuhaus and De Maistre

Some questions about the post-liberal right in theory versus practice.

Christopher Hitchens, Victim of Decadence?

What an appreciation of Hitchens says about the temptations of his times.

Decadence is a Chronic Illness

On the affinities between my last two books.

The Deep Places: A Preview

The preface to my new book.

Tony Soprano's Decadent Society

David Chase's prophetic vision and the question of when decadence becomes decline.

Love and Death in Occupied France

The judgment and the sympathy of Un Village Français.

Is The Matrix Good?

Yes.

Playing Those End of History Hits Again

Thoughts on Matthew Yglesias's decadence-mongering and the dangers of today.

Reading Stephen King in Maine

Notes on summer, horror, and late-career King.

My Correct Views on The Last Jedi

Why Rian Johnson's Star Wars sequel stirs so much debate. (Because of decadence, of course.)

The Latin Mass in the Zero Sum Church

How fear of decline can push institutions and societies from decadence toward crisis.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Why extraterrestrial life might be extremely alien and yet still resemble ... us.

Reflections on the Revolution in North America

Some further notes on the French and Indian War.

The Mother of Easttown

"Mare of Easttown" as a portrait of matriarchy and male failure.

Mom Genes and Father's Day

How fathers help make mothers, and why making fathers is a harder task

Decadence and Andreessen's Dilemma

If we need to embrace a culture of building, does it matter if we do it in reality?

Influential Intellectuals Revisited

Important thinkers of the early 21st century, the bonus round.

Can the Targaryens Conquer Television?

The perils of adapting the "prehistory" of George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien