Ross Douthat, a columnist for the Times, wrote that a "marital ideal" would be lost-but he admitted that this ideal was disconnected from reality.

时代杂志的专栏作家Ross Dout hat这样写“夫妇间的典范”将会丢失——但是他承认这种典范是与现实脱离的。

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The problem, says Douthat, is that such people are prone to a form of hubris in which they overestimate their ability to understand and manipulate the world.

杜塔特称，问题在于，这类人容易骄傲自大，他们高估了自己理解和掌控世界的能力。

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But Douthat says the same sort of phenomenon has cropped up in the realm of public policy with such endeavors as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, or the European Union's creation of a common currency.

但杜塔特认为，同样的现象也出现在公共政策领域，比如越战和伊战，以及欧盟创造统一货币。

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College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.

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Expand your reading geographically too, Douthat suggested, plugging the London Review of Books.

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As Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam helped us understand, no party or ideology is immune to the maternalist temptation.

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