{"id":3433,"date":"2015-01-15T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/new-york-times-columnist-to-speak-at-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:36:01","slug":"new-york-times-columnist-to-speak-at-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-york-times-columnist-to-speak-at-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times columnist to speak at Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ross Douthat (Susan Etheridge for The New York Times)\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Ross Douthat, op-ed columnist for The New York Times<\/em>, will speak on the Furman University campus Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. in Burgiss Theater of the Trone Student Center.<\/p>\n

His lecture, \u201cThe Futures of Christianity in 21st Century America,\u201d<\/em> is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by Furman\u2019s College Republicans, Political Science Department, and the Tocqueville Program.<\/p>\n

Douthat was the youngest op-ed columnist ever hired at The New York Times<\/em> when he joined the paper in 2009.\u00a0 Prior to that, he was a senior editor and blogger at The Atlantic<\/em>.\u00a0 He is the film critic for National Review<\/em> and has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, The Weekly Standard<\/em>, GQ<\/em>, Slate<\/em> and other publications.<\/p>\n

He is the author of several books, including Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics<\/em> and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class<\/em>.\u00a0 He is also co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ross Douthat, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, will speak on the Furman campus Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. in Burgiss Theater of the Trone Student Center. His lecture, \u201cThe Futures of Christianity in 21st Century America,\u201d is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by Furman\u2019s College Republicans, Political Science Department, and the Tocqueville Program. Douthat was the youngest op-ed columnist ever hired at The New York Times when he joined the paper in 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}