Background
Douthat, Ross Gregory was born on November 28, 1979 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Charles Douthat and Patricia Snow.
( Now in paperback, the penetrating critique of elite univ...)
Now in paperback, the penetrating critique of elite universities and the culture of privilege they perpetuate Ross Gregory Douthat arrived at Harvard University in the fall of 1998 carrying an idealized vision of Ivy League life. But the Harvard of his dreams, an institution fueled by intellectual curiosity and entrusted with the keys to liberal education, never materialized. Instead, he found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the religion of success. So Douthat was educated at Harvard, but what Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn. Instead, he was immersed in the culture of America's ever-swelling ruling class--a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement, in which a vast network of elite schools are viewed by students, parents, administrators, and professors more as stepping-stones to high salaries and coveted social networks than as institutions entrusted with academic excellence. Privilege is a powerfully rendered portrait of a young manhood, a pointed social critique of this country's most esteemed institutions, and an exploration of issues such as affirmative action, grade inflation, political correctness, and curriculum reform.
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Douthat, Ross Gregory was born on November 28, 1979 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Charles Douthat and Patricia Snow.
Bachelor in History & Literature, Harvard University, 2002.
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, Grand New Party (2008) with Reihan Salam, and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class.
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, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Slate, and other publications.
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Married Abigail Tucker, 2007.