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| Born | Ross Gregory Douthat November 28, 1979 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Ross Gregory Douthat [a] (born November 28, 1979) is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist. [3] 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.
Ross Gregory Douthat was born November 28, 1979, [2] in San Francisco, California, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. [4] As an adolescent, Douthat converted to Pentecostalism and then, with the rest of his family, [5] to Catholicism. [6] 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. [7] [8]
His mother is a writer. [9] His great-grandfather was the poet and Governor Charles Wilbert Snow of Connecticut. [10] His father, Charles Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm [11] [12] and a poet.[ citation needed ]
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]
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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 to destroy one is to kill a human. [21]
In 2007, Douthat married Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun . [11] He and his family live in New Haven, Connecticut. [22]
Douthat has written that he suffers from chronic Lyme disease. [23] [24]
Ross Gregory Douthat is the great great grandson of Charles Lewis Douthat, born 1 November 1831 in Virginia, who fought as a mounted soldier in the Arkansas Confederate Army. [25]
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