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Famously conservative Ross G. Douthat charmed the predominately liberal crowd with his tales of the political iconoclast’s lonely life. “People recognize me on the street and they spit on me,” he said. “People go by my white board and write ‘Die Fascist Pig.’” He then led a singalong to “Part of Your World,” from the Little Mermaid. We are not making this up. We’re thinking about voting Republican...
...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...
...Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...ever be, since to whatever extent it does exist, grade inflation is a national problem, and not one indigenous to Harvard. Unfortunately, we hear more about inflation here than an other institutions because of certain highly vocal gadflies in our faculty, and also because of what Ross G. Douthat ’02 labeled “The Harvard Syndrome” in his Nov. 5 column in The Crimson. Douthat referred to jealousy and corresponding feelings of antipathy by people outside Harvard, each with their own personal axe to grind against our fair University. In reality, people in positions...