Ross Douthat Explained

Ross Douthat
Birth Name:Ross Gregory Douthat
Birth Date:28 November 1979
Birth Place:San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education:Harvard University (BA)

Ross Gregory Douthat (born November 28, 1979) is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist.[1] He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written on a variety of topics, including the state of Christianity in America and "sustainable decadence" in contemporary society.

Early life and education

Ross Gregory Douthat was born in 1979 in San Francisco, California, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut.[2] As an adolescent, Douthat converted to Pentecostalism and then, with the rest of his family,[3] to Catholicism.[4] Douthat has described his conversion to Catholicism as being influenced by the writing of C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and J. R. R. Tolkien.[5] [6]

His mother is a writer.[7] His great-grandfather was the poet and Governor Charles Wilbert Snow of Connecticut.[8] His father, Charles Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm[9] and a poet.

Douthat attended Hamden Hall, a private high school in Hamden, Connecticut. Douthat graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts 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.[10]

Career

Douthat is a regular columnist for The New York Times.[11] In April 2009, he became the youngest regular op-ed writer in The New York Times after replacing Bill Kristol as a conservative voice on the Times editorial page.[12] [13]

Before joining The New York Times, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic.[14] He has published books on the decline of religion in American society, the role of Harvard University in creating an American ruling class and other topics related to religion, politics and society. His book Grand New Party (2008), which he co-wrote with Reihan Salam, was described by New York Times commentator David Brooks as the "best single roadmap of where the Republican Party should and is likely to head."[15] Douthat's The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success (2020) received positive reviews in The New York Times[16] and National Review.[17] Douthat frequently appeared on the video debate site Bloggingheads.tv until 2012.

Douthat has written in support of banning abortion, arguing that science shows that a zygote (a fertilized egg) is a distinct human and that to destroy one is to kill a human.[18]

Personal life

In 2007, Douthat married Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.[19] He and his family live in New Haven, Connecticut.[20]

Douthat has written that he suffers from chronic Lyme disease.[21] [22]

Published works

External links

Notes and References

  1. DouthatNYT . 786018755667111937 . My birthday, as it happens . October 11, 2016 .
  2. Web site: Q&A with Ross Douthat . Lamb . Brian . Brian Lamb . . (c-spanarchives.org) . May 6, 2009 . October 20, 2009 . dead . https://archive.today/20130414092631/http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/285773-1 . April 14, 2013 . mdy-all .
  3. News: A Pisher's Privilege . The New York Observer . Sheelah Kolhatkar . March 6, 2005 . March 30, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150409160127/http://observer.com/2005/03/a-pishers-privilege/ . April 9, 2015 . live .
  4. News: The Fall of Conservatism . The New Yorker . George Packer . May 26, 2008 . March 25, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081219163742/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_packer/?currentPage=all . December 19, 2008 . live .
  5. News: Oppenheimer . Mark . Ross Douthat's Fantasy World . 16 May 2024 . Mother Jones . January 2010.
  6. Chotiner . Isaac . Ross Douthat's Theories of Persuasion . 16 May 2024 . The New Yorker . 11 September 2023.
  7. Web site: Anne Rice's Christ . Ross Douthat . February 3, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090207010137/http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/02/anne_rices_christ.php . February 7, 2009 . live .
  8. Web site: Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat . Hoffman . Chris . March 18, 2020 . May 17, 2020.
  9. Web site: John Carmichael (1740–1806) and his wife Esther Canfield (1748–1816) of Sand . Google Books. 1996.
  10. News: Crimson Alum Replaces Kristol . The Harvard Crimson . March 13, 2009 . Huma N. . Shah . November 11, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304221118/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/3/13/crimson-alum-replaces-kristol-former-crimson/ . March 4, 2016 . live .
  11. News: Conservative Thinkers Think Again . July 20, 2008 . Patricia Cohen . The New York Times . September 9, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111216121023/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/weekinreview/20cohen.html . December 16, 2011 . live .
  12. News: Douthat enters new Times zone . Calderone . Michael . March 31, 2009 . Politico . politico.com . October 20, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100104083411/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20679.html . January 4, 2010 . live .
  13. News: Times Hires New Conservative Columnist . Richard Pérez-Peña . The New York Times . March 11, 2009 . March 25, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130617004819/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12douthat.html . June 17, 2013 . live .
  14. Web site: A Goodbye . April 17, 2009 . Ross Douthat . The Atlantic . April 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090417173522/http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/04/a_goodbye.php . April 17, 2009 . live .
  15. News: The Sam's Club Agenda . June 27, 2008 . David Brooks . The New York Times . September 9, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090424185039/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27brooks.html . April 24, 2009 . live .
  16. Web site: Lilla . Mark . Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It's Grim. . The New York Times . 26 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201201171543/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/books/review/the-decadent-society-ross-douthat.html . 1 December 2020 . en . 25 February 2020.
  17. Web site: Sibarium . Aaron . Our Comfortable Decadence . National Review . 26 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200922144512/https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/03/23/our-comfortable-decadence/ . 22 September 2020 . en . 5 March 2020.
  18. News: Opinion | the Case Against Abortion. The New York Times. November 30, 2021. Douthat. Ross.
  19. News: Abigail Tucker, Ross Douthat . September 30, 2007 . The New York Times . March 25, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110507142439/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/fashion/weddings/30tucker.html . May 7, 2011 . live .
  20. News: Opinion | Your Questions, Answered . The New York Times. January 3, 2019. January 21, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190122044516/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/opinion/columnists/the-argument-listener-questions-new-years-2018.html. January 22, 2019. live.
  21. Book: The Deep Places by Ross Douthat. 978-0593237366. PenguinRandomhouse.com . Douthat . Ross . October 26, 2021 . Crown Publishing .
  22. Web site: Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. Chris. Hoffman. Connecticut Magazine.

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