At a time of distrust and polarization, the conservative Times columnist seeks to bridge the worlds of the Christian right and the secular left.
In addition to his political commentary, Douthat generates a steady stream of columns on popular culture, especially film and television. For a social conservative, these are rarely fogeyish. Even his most pessimistic work—he wrote a book several years ago called “The Decadent Society,” which argues that American culture is essentially stagnant—seldom extends to critiquing works of art for their ethical failings.
Douthat’s obvious disgust at Trump’s character comes through frequently in his column, but it exists alongside a desire to understand Trump’s appeal. Several weeks before the 2020 election, when many political observers were warning that Trump might deny the results and try to hold on to power, Douthat wrote a column titled “There Will Be No Trump Coup.” According to Douthat, Trump was “a feckless tribune for the discontented rather than an autocratic menace.
But Douthat reserves his greatest intensity for the matter of abortion. He acknowledges that, as he wrote in one column, “the pro-life movement’s many critics regard it as not merely conservative but as an embodiment of reaction at its worst—punitive and cruel and patriarchal, piling burdens on poor women and doing nothing to relieve them, putting unborn life ahead of the lives and health of women while pretending to hold them equal.
Barbaro and his husband later divorced; when we spoke, he was on vacation with his wife and two children. “I’ve been on a long journey that I know Ross generally approves of,” he said. “But, although I didn’t do it for him, it’s very funny, as I have had children I can just sense his glee. It’s no secret that he wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships.” Barbaro let out a laugh. “And that wasn’t my plan, but I have sensed his joy at that outcome.
To a child, Snow’s growing fervor could have been bewildering or tumultuous. But Douthat, by his own account, approached it then the way he might now, with respect and curiosity. “Whatever the reality of charismatic healing is—speaking in tongues and all these things—that reality was a hundred per cent present in a lot of the places where we went and hung out. There was nothing faked or fraudulent about it,” he told me.
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