Ross Douthat

Ross Gregory Douthat (born November 28, 1979) is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. Douthat has written on a variety of topics, including the state of Christianity in America and 'sustainable decadence' in contemporary society. Born in San Francisco, California, in 1979, Douthat grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. He converted to Pentecostalism as an adolescent and later to Catholicism along with his family. Douthat's mother is a writer, and his great-grandfather was the poet and Governor Charles Wilbert Snow of Connecticut. He is married to Abigail Tucker, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a writer for Smithsonian, and they reside in New Haven.