Word: douthat
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...fourth or fifth round” of callbacks for The Real World: Las Vegas, and he brought along his audition tape. He read stanzas from John Lennon’s “Imagine,” challenging us all to make a better world. Ross Douthat said, “Sign me up!” which was pretty damn funny. He was being sarcastic...
When Ross G. Douthat tells you that he hopes to become one of the world’s most prominent writers, you get a sense that he just might. “Coming to Harvard, I now have a new sense of the power and success that is at our fingertips - I know I will be one of the 25 richest writers of the future”, he says...
...Douthat has always stood apart from the crowd. As the sole Republican in a “staunch, hardline-Democrat family”, he formed his conservative worldview from an early age as “a way of rebelling against my parents?...
...editor of the oft-maligned conservative newspaper The Harvard Salient, and author of a weekly column in The Crimson, Douthat didn’t change his tune upon arrival at Harvard. Not one to shy away from controversy, Douthat writes over 3000 words of copy each week, rallying against almost every keystone of the Harvard liberal ideology, ranging from the living wage to homosexuality. Douthat has even claimed that the Academy Awards are the product of “left of left wing politics”, an accusation that suggests he garners more than a little mischievous pleasure from...
Rooming with only one other conservative in a group of eight, Douthat, while fervent in his own beliefs, couldn’t survive without the thrill of conflicting perspectives. “Sometimes its difficult socially, but it means you just have to make more of an effort to make friends, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” he says. He admits that “At parties, when people find out I am the editor the Salient, there are always lots of groans...but as a writer, I find being a conservative a liberating...