Ne tikai tas, ka viņa grāmata par pāvestu bija ļoti laba, lai gan, cerams, viņš alojas, bet Ross Dauzats (Douthat) arī ir labākais NYTimes komentētājs:

But people also need to recognize that the “profile” we’re being given of Kavanaugh — a creature of privilege who drank a lot in college and sometimes struck other people as a jerk — isn’t the narrow profile of a rapist, and isn’t even the somewhat more expansive profile of a particular kind of arrogant preppy. It’s a profile that fits many of the same people attacking him today — and so part of what we’re watching is one group of meritocrats returning to their undergraduate resentments and trying to pin on Georgetown Prep graduates the vices that define our entire depressing class.