Ross Douthat

Ross Gregory Douthat (/ˈdaʊθæt/; born November 28, 1979) is a conservative American author, blogger and New York Times columnist. Douthat is the youngest regular op-ed writer in the New York Times. He joined the Times in April 2009, replacing Bill Kristol as a conservative voice on the Times editorial page.

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 is 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.

Personal life

Douthat was born in San Francisco, California, but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. He 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. 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 is Governor Wilbert Snow of Connecticut. His father, Charles Ross Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm and an award winning 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.