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He is the author, most recently, of “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Biography , Literature

Simplified: Ross Douthat authored “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious”.

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Ross Douthat has been an Opinion columnist for The Times since 2009. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Biography , Journalism

Simplified: Ross Douthat has been an Opinion columnist for The Times since 2009.

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the dark spirit that inspires these crimes suffers a defeat when we react with unity and solidarity rather than immediate recriminations. 0.600

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Reacting with unity defeats the dark spirit that inspires crimes.

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Whereas it gains a victory every time we respond by immediately blaming our political rivals, and trying to prove over the bodies of the dead that, yes, our ideological opponents are even more evil th... 0.600

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Blaming political rivals gives the dark spirit a victory.

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“Diabolos” in Greek means accuser, and in that sense the dark spirit that inspires these crimes suffers a defeat when we react with unity and solidarity rather than immediate recriminations. 1.000

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Language , Culture

Simplified: "Diabolos" in Greek means accuser.

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And accelerating that cycle of blame feels like one of the deeper impulses behind these kinds of atrocities. 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Accelerating the cycle of blame is a deeper impulse behind atrocities.

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It’s made explicit by the idea of “accelerationism” that some shooters have been drawn to (whether the Minnesota shooter was one such remains unclear), which envisions spasms of violence as a means to... 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Some shooters are drawn to "accelerationism".

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This also means that even when there seems to be some political purpose to an act of violence, as with Luigi Mangione’s alleged assassination of a health care executive, it increasingly comes stirred... 0.800

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Acts of violence increasingly come with a bizarre mix of political signifiers.

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Which, conveniently enough, gives everyone watching something to latch onto, some apparent motivation to single out, some ideological enemy to blame. 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Politics , Crime

Simplified: Bizarre political signifiers give people something to blame.

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Rather, many shooters seem to find these loyalties too weak to sustain a meaningful conception of the self or the world, too flabby to compete with more bizarre or bespoke identities, too impotent to... 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Shooters find political loyalties too weak to sustain a meaningful self.

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Others are a mixture of megalomania and mimesis, where the goal is to achieve the dark celebrity of prior mass shooters. 0.800

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime

Simplified: Some shooters' goal is to achieve the dark celebrity of prior mass shooters.

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Some of these purposes are simply impenetrable, the dream logic of the mentally ill. 0.800

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Health

Simplified: Some shooters' purposes are impenetrable due to mental illness.

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They aren’t taking wokeness or populism too literally or too far; they’re following other directives and acting on other purposes entirely. 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Shooters are not taking wokeness or populism too far.

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More broadly, while the tendency to extreme and apocalyptic rhetoric is a consistent feature of American politics (even a democratic birthright), most of the killers shooting up schools and churches o... 0.700

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: Killers shooting up schools are not usually participants in political polarization.

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In the latest case, for instance, the Minnesota killer’s video and writings seem to gesture Joker-like at all kinds of political motivations — antisemitic, racist, anti-Trump, with the “Defend Equalit... 0.800

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Politics

Simplified: The Minnesota killer's writings gestured at various political motivations.

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all attempts to blame extreme political rhetoric for mass shootings should be treated extremely skeptically, because the phenomenon of lone-wolf violence in America rarely attaches easily to either le... 0.900

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Politics , Violence

Simplified: Attempts to blame political rhetoric for mass shootings should be treated skeptically.

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Senator Bill Cassidy, the gastroenterologist who cast the deciding vote on Trump’s snake-oil health secretary, said Wednesday that the chaos at C.D.C. would require oversight by Congress. 0.800

👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics , Health

Simplified: Senator Bill Cassidy said CDC chaos requires congressional oversight

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Asked about the C.D.C. meltdown Friday, Trump’s creepy consigliere Stephen Miller told reporters that Kennedy is “a crown jewel of this administration.” 0.800

👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Stephen Miller said Kennedy is a crown jewel of the Trump administration

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If you sport a shirt with the slogan “Protect Trans Kids” underneath a hunting knife (as the lieutenant governor of Minnesota did in 2023), or if you put a transgender writer toting an AR-15 on your m... 0.600

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Politics , Violence

Simplified: Sporting violent imagery bears some responsibility when violence occurs.

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Especially when the Minneapolis killer’s own manifesto reportedly trafficked in the same imagery, featuring a “Defend Equality” sticker overlaid with an image of a machine gun. 0.900

👤 Ross Douthat 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Crime , Violence

Simplified: The Minneapolis killer's manifesto trafficked in violent imagery.

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