Biography:Ross Douthat

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Short description: American author and columnist (born 1979)
Ross Douthat
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BornRoss Gregory Douthat
(1979-11-28) November 28, 1979 (age 44)
San Francisco , California , U.S.
Occupation
  • Columnist
  • author
  • blogger
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Subjects
Spouse
Abigail Tucker (m. 2007)

Ross Gregory Douthat[lower-alpha 1] (born November 28, 1979) is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist.[2] 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.

Personal life

Ross Gregory Douthat was born in 1979 in San Francisco, California , and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut.[3] As an adolescent, Douthat converted to Pentecostalism and then, with the rest of his family,[4] to Catholicism.[5]

His mother is a writer.[6] His great-grandfather was the poet and Governor Charles Wilbert Snow of Connecticut.[7] His father, Charles Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm[8][9] and a poet. In 2007, Douthat married Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a writer for Smithsonian.[8] He and his family live in New Haven, Connecticut.[10]

Douthat has written that he suffers from chronic Lyme disease, a diagnosis that is unrecognized by mainstream medicine. His symptoms began in 2015, soon after he and his family had moved to Connecticut. This is the subject of his book The Deep Places.[11][12]

Education

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.[13]

Career

Douthat is a regular columnist for The New York Times .[14] 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.[15][16]

Before joining The New York Times, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic.[17] 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."[18] Douthat's The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success (2020) received positive reviews in The New York Times[19] and National Review.[20] 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 destroying it would be to kill a human.[21]

Published works

  • Douthat, Ross (2005). Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-0112-5. 
  • Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream. With Salam, Reihan. New York: Doubleday. 2008. ISBN:978-0-385-51943-4.
  • Douthat, Ross (2012). Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-1-4391-7830-0. 
  • Douthat, Ross (2018). To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-4694-7. 
  • The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020. (The paperback edition, issued in 2021, is titled: The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic.) ISBN:978-1476785240
  • The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery. Convergent Books. October 26, 2021. ISBN:0-59-323736-6

Notes

  1. ↑ Pronounced /ˈdaʊθət/.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Douthat, Ross (July 14, 2008). "Rush Versus Me". https://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2008/07/rush-versus-me/54253/. 
  2. ↑ @DouthatNYT (October 11, 2016). "My birthday, as it happens:". https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/786018755667111937. 
  3. ↑ Lamb, Brian (May 6, 2009). "Q&A with Ross Douthat". Q&A. (C-SPAN ). http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/285773-1. 
  4. ↑ Sheelah Kolhatkar (March 6, 2005). "A Pisher's Privilege". The New York Observer. http://observer.com/2005/03/a-pishers-privilege/. 
  5. ↑ George Packer (May 26, 2008). "The Fall of Conservatism". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all. 
  6. ↑ Ross Douthat. "Anne Rice's Christ". http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/02/anne_rices_christ.php. 
  7. ↑ Hoffman, Chris (March 18, 2020). "Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat". https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/q-a-with-new-york-times-columnist-ross-douthat/article_a0d66a88-6571-11ea-ad6a-1b27651ad1f6.html. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Abigail Tucker, Ross Douthat". The New York Times. September 30, 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/fashion/weddings/30tucker.html. 
  9. ↑ "John Carmichael (1740–1806) and his wife Esther Canfield (1748–1816) of Sand". 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=uEY5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Charles+Ross+Douthat%22. 
  10. ↑ "Opinion | Your Questions, Answered". The New York Times. January 3, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/opinion/columnists/the-argument-listener-questions-new-years-2018.html. 
  11. ↑ Douthat, Ross (October 26, 2021). The Deep Places by Ross Douthat. Crown Publishing. ISBN 978-0593237366. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646761/the-deep-places-by-ross-douthat/. 
  12. ↑ Hoffman, Chris. "Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat". https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/q-a-with-new-york-times-columnist-ross-douthat/article_a0d66a88-6571-11ea-ad6a-1b27651ad1f6.html. 
  13. ↑ Shah, Huma N. (March 13, 2009). "Crimson Alum Replaces Kristol". The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/3/13/crimson-alum-replaces-kristol-former-crimson/. 
  14. ↑ Patricia Cohen (July 20, 2008). "Conservative Thinkers Think Again". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/weekinreview/20cohen.html. 
  15. ↑ Calderone, Michael (March 31, 2009). "Douthat enters new Times zone". Politico (politico.com). http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20679.html. 
  16. ↑ Richard Pérez-Peña (March 11, 2009). "Times Hires New Conservative Columnist". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12douthat.html. 
  17. ↑ Ross Douthat (April 17, 2009). "A Goodbye". The Atlantic. http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/04/a_goodbye.php. 
  18. ↑ David Brooks (June 27, 2008). "The Sam's Club Agenda". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27brooks.html. 
  19. ↑ Lilla, Mark (25 February 2020). "Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It's Grim." (in en). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/books/review/the-decadent-society-ross-douthat.html. 
  20. ↑ Sibarium, Aaron (5 March 2020). "Our Comfortable Decadence" (in en). https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/03/23/our-comfortable-decadence/. 
  21. ↑ Douthat, Ross (November 30, 2021). "Opinion | the Case Against Abortion". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/abortion-dobbs-supreme-court.html. 

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