Ross Gregory Douthat (; born November 28, 1979) is an American author, blogger and New York Times columnist.
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Personal life
Douthat was born in San Francisco and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. As an adolescent, Douthat converted to Pentecostalism and then, with the rest of his family, to Catholicism.
His mother, Patricia Jeanette Snow, is a writer. His great-grandfather was Governor Charles Wilbert Snow of Connecticut. His father, Charles Ross Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm and poet. In 2007, Douthat married Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a writer for Smithsonian. He and his family live in Washington, D.C.
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Education
Douthat attended Hamden Hall, a private high school in Hamden, Connecticut. Douthat graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2002, where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While there he contributed to The Harvard Crimson and edited the Harvard Salient.
Career
Douthat is a regular blogger and columnist for The New York Times. He is the youngest regular op-ed writer in the New York Times, having replaced Bill Kristol as a conservative voice on the Times editorial page in April 2009.
Before joining The New York Times, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. His published books are Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012), Grand New Party (2008) with Reihan Salam, and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (2005). He frequently appeared on the video debate site Bloggingheads.tv until 2012.
David Brooks called Grand New Party the "best single roadmap of where the Republican Party should and is likely to head."
Douthat was a film critic for National Review and has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review of Books, GQ, Slate, and other publications.
Published works
- Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. New York: Hyperion. (2005) ISBN 978-1-4013-0112-5
- Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream. New York: Doubleday. (2008) ISBN 978-0-385-51943-4 (with Salam, Reihan).
- Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. New York: Free Press. (2012) ISBN 978-1-4391-7830-0
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