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In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, DC, to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain - a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which, according to CDC definitions, does not actually exist.

"A Cure for Trumpism" is from the July 19, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"A Trumpism of the Left" is from the October 5, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"The Dangers of Hillary Clinton" is from the October 22, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Liberalism's Big Bet" is from the July 30, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"A Great Deal for the Many" is from the December 03, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Are We Unraveling?" is from the July 10, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"How Trump Wins" is from the September 13, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Goodbye, Bushism" is from March 16, 2016, Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"What the Right’s Intellectuals Did Wrong" is from the October 26, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Books for the Trump Era" is from the December 20, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"The Defeat of True Conservatism" is from the May 4, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Can the Democrats Move Right?" is from the November 30, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"The Trump Afterlife" is from the October 18, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"The Debate Mismatch" is from the September 24, 2016, Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Paul Ryden.

In electoral politics, likewise: a successful re-election that seemed to betoken a sustained realignment for the Democrats. On the economy, lower grades: a depression averted, but record deficits, stagnant growth and stubborn elevated unemployment. On Obamacare, his signature achievement, a grade of incomplete, awaiting its implementation.

"The Obama Legacy" is from the January 18, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Every January I write a column exploring my faulty analysis and failed prophecies from the preceding year. After last year’s installment, in which I explained how I had underestimated a certain celebrity tycoon, I received a note from Trump Tower — a clipping of the column, scrawled over with a markered note: “Thank you — Now I will work to get you to go a little bit further. Best wishes, Donald Trump.”

"Confessions of a Columnist" is from the December 31, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ross Douthat and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Ross Douthat, the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails - and why it threatens to take American society with it.