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Ross Douthat
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November 28, 1979
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Pondering immigrant progress as the Senate debates immigration reform.
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Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
— published 2012 — 6 editions |
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Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
— published 2005 — 2 editions |
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Slaughterhouse 5
— published 2002 — 3 editions |
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
by Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam — published 2008 — 6 editions |
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Our Town (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
by Ross Douthat, Sasha Haines-Stiles — published 2002 — 3 editions |
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Bad Religion - How We Became a Nation of Heretics
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To Kill a Mockingbird (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
by SparkNotes Editors, Ross Douthat, Harper Lee — published 1960 — 4 editions |
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“In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally important teaching that every human soul is fatally corrupted by original sin. Absent the latter emphasis, religion becomes a license for egotism and selfishness, easily employed to justify what used to be considered deadly sins. The result is a society where pride becomes 'healthy self-esteem', vanity becomes 'self-improvement', adultery becomes 'following your heart', greed and gluttony become 'living the American dream'.”
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
“And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America’s relentless appetite— for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger everything, and damn the long-term cost.”
― Ross Douthat
― Ross Douthat
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....)”
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
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