Because of course it does not.
Douthat can be seen on the Razib Khan podcast Khanversation helping to legitimize Khan's career of promoting race science.
Apparently Khanversation is a joint project of Khan and rightwing R Street think tank creature Josiah Neeley
It goes without saying Neeley doesn't care that Khan is racist either. Because the American conservative movement has no bottom.
While Khan is hobnobbing with Douthat, on the other hand he absolutely hates another NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
Khan of course is a long-time supporter of race pseudoscience, and is a member of the racist boys club obsessed with "Jewishness" as I documented yesterday.
And Khan was denied a place at the NYTimes, back when the NYTimes was generally more anti-racist, after his career as a political operative promoting racism was publicized by Bouie, among others.
The Atlantic was not impressed by Douthat's book.
Believe is not a political book, but it would be naive to imagine that Douthat’s evangelism has no political implications. He acknowledges that the book could be “a work of Christian apologetics in disguise,” and his invitation to religion in general leads predictably to a case for Christianity in particular, preferably of the conservative-Catholic variety. In his columns he draws no bright line between religion and politics: Contemporary America is decadent, liberalism has famished our souls, and any renewal depends on faith—not New Ageism, not progressive Protestantism, but religion of a traditional, illiberal cast. Douthat has carried on a years-long flirtation with MAGA, endorsing many of its policies while hedging his personal dislike of Trump against his antipathy toward the opposition. (He refused to disclose his choice in the most recent election, which seems like a misdemeanor for a political columnist.) Douthat hasn’t gone as far as the head of the new White House Faith Office, but when he calls Trump a “man of destiny,” it isn’t easy to extricate his metaphysical leanings from his partisan ones.
Maybe that's why Douthat had to resort to far-right media, racist and all, to help promote it.
