Ross Douthat is an opinion columnist for the New York Times, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and one of the nation's leading conservative thinkers on the place of religion in American public life.
In this inaugural conversation in Rabbi Meir Soloveichik's series on "Faith in America," Douthat joins Rabbi Soloveichik for a candid and wide-ranging discussion on the state of religion in America, how one engages the broader culture while raising religious children, the differences and similarities between the Jewish and Catholic communities, the debates within American Catholicism today, and what the West might be able to learn from Israel's achievements.