Ross Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005), and the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class And Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). He is the film critic for National Review, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, GQ, Slate, and other publications. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, he now lives in Washington D.C.

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