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Some of the students in attendance said they appreciated Douthat??s views on campus politics...
...Harvard community, and especially those involved in the campus media where Mr. Douthat began his journalistic career, welcomes this news in particular. Mr. Douthat??s speedy rise through the ranks of opinion journalism does our newspaper—as well as the Salient—proud. Harvard for a long time has been privileged as a fertile ground for launching careers of all sorts, especially in journalism. Mr. Douthat, author of Privilege, the celebrated autobiographical account of his undergraduate years, offers further encouragement to the campus’s aspiring writers and thinkers...
Liberals here at Harvard and throughout the country indeed may find Mr. Douthat??s positions and philosophy no less objectionable than his predecessor’s. Yet Mr. Douthat, a captivating author who appreciates nuance and spurns unsophisticated ideology, will contribute not only his perspective, but also, perhaps more importantly, a respectable approach and attitude that conservative pundits too often have lacked. Mr. Douthat is no Rush Limbaugh—for better or worse, conservatives in this country and on this campus will have a smart and rational exponent around whom they can rally...
Former Crimson editorial columnist and Harvard Salient editor Ross G. Douthat ’02 will become a weekly Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times beginning in mid-April, replacing conservative writer William Kristol ’73. Douthat??a senior editor at The Atlantic who has already authored two books—will become the Times’ youngest columnist, writing online and blogging before appearing in print opposite liberal Paul Krugman. “We were looking for a conservative writer,” said New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal...
...something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat??s debut tome—have taught us, it is that nobody likes a stickler for the truth. There is no real harm, I suppose, in capitalizing on the myth of the supernaturally brilliant and accomplished Harvardian—so long as we don?...