Meet the Author Ross Douthat is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, and the film critic for the National Review. Previously, he was a senior editor at the Atlantic. He is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012), and the co-author (with Reihan Salam) of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (2008). Book Basics Douthat effectively Read More …
Bad Religion
A Way Forward for American Christianity (#0720)
New York Times columnist Ross Gregory Douthat was interviewed in the May 2012 edition of Christianity Today on the occasion of the release of his latest book: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012). He suggests that the United States has always been a "nation of heretics," but that this tendency was, until recently, always countered and overwhelmed by institutional Christianity. In response to the question "How can we begin to address a nation of heretics" Douthat proposes, Read More …