Ross Gregory Douthat (; born November 28, 1979) is an American author, blogger and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor at The Atlantic and is author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008), which David Brooks called the "best single roadmap of where the [Republican] party should and is likely to head." He is a film critic for National Review and has also contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review of Books, GQ, Slate, and other publications. In addition, he frequently appears on the video debate site Bloggingheads.tv. In April 2009, he became an online and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, replacing Bill Kristol as a conservative voice on the Times editorial page. Douthat is the youngest regular op-ed writer in the paper's history.
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 is writer Patricia Snow. His father, Charles Douthat, is a partner in a New Haven law firm. In 2007 he married Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a writer for Smithsonian. He and his family live in Washington, D.C.
Douthat, Ross Gregory. (2005) Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1401301125
Douthat, Ross. Salam, Reihan. (2008) Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385519434