PERSON: Ross Douthat

Columnist

Ross Gregory Douthat (/ˈdaʊθæt/; born November 28, 1979) is an American author, blogger and New York Times columnist.

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.

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