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Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat

@DouthatNYT

nytimes.com/column/ross-do…

New York Times columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020).

187677 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#45 0.002055 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#203 0.000607 Moderate Conservatism
#524 0.000288 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#531 0.000223 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#547 0.000136 Harper's Open Letter
#883 0.000141 Persuasion Community
#1056 0.000147 Progress Studies
#1305 0.000116 Social Epistemology
#2013 0.000051 Rationality
#2097 0.000031 Effective Altruism
#2222 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2269 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2377 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2408 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2446 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2482 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2484 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2528 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2700 0.000017 Heterodox Academy
#2756 0.000001 350.org
#2935 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3483 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4005 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4186 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4592 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4896 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5159 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5612 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5620 0.000002 Anarachists
#6151 0.000012 Ecomodernists
#6264 0.000001 EFF
#9252 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#92 0.001514 The Dispatch
#179 0.000859 Foreign Policy
#438 0.000413 The New York Times
#464 0.000263 The Atlantic
#638 0.000169 Washington Post
#705 0.000175 New Yorker
#731 0.000172 Bloomberg Opinion
#878 0.000133 Ars Technica
#2029 0.000006 The Economist
#2595 0.000001 The Information
#2740 0.000027 The New York Post
#2902 0.000001 OANN
#2909 0.000001 Newsmax
#3107 0.000001 Stat News
#3436 0.000001 The Verge
#3614 0.000024 The Intercept
#4641 0.000001 CNBC
#4679 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4790 0.000014 VICE
#5505 0.000001 Wired
#5912 0.000001 Financial Times
#6318 0.000002 Reuters
#6413 0.000008 Recode
#6488 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6659 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7097 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8062 0.000004 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#92 0.001010 American Enterprise Institute
#92 0.001010 National Bureau of Economic Research
#179 0.000859 Niskanen Center
#323 0.000279 Hudson Institute
#660 0.000242 Mercatus Center
#918 0.000146 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#966 0.000128 Council on Foreign Relations
#1045 0.000007 Heritage Foundation
#1284 0.000089 Hoover Institution
#1559 0.000097 Brookings
#2394 0.000011 Berggruen Institute
#2623 0.000054 Center for American Progress
#2663 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2718 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2906 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3568 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4085 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4457 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#4566 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6329 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7117 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

system

#1129 0.000147 Think Tanks
#4216 0.000081 Baseline
#8658 0.000041 Reality-Based Community

Science

#2791 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3204 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#3638 0.000023 EconTwitter
#4135 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#4902 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9127 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#6462 0.000018 Founders

Venture Capital

#2246 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2297 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2728 0.000001 Accel
#3113 0.000001 Sequioa
#3584 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3597 0.000001 Bessemer
#3945 0.000011 Khosla Ventures
#3952 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4144 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4187 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4559 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4780 0.000001 Homebrew
#5678 0.000001 Village Global
#5900 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#2268 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2372 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2442 0.000001 Polkadot
#3183 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4137 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4191 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4241 0.000001 Cosmos
#5135 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5272 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6924 0.000001 Ethereum
#7097 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7736 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9391 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#2381 0.000001 Rust
#3062 0.000001 Zig

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