Jonathan Alter & Ross Douthat

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: Free, no ticket required
Location: Finney Chapel (directions)

In his nearly 30 years as a columnist and editor for Newsweek, Jonathan Alter has authored more than 50 cover stories, from Bill Clinton's first post-presidency interview to Alter's personal story of living with cancer. Currently, he writes a weekly column for Bloomberg View and works as a political analyst for MSNBC. Beyond politics, Alter has written extensively on education, fiscal policy, and military service. In 1997 he was the Ferris Visiting Professor of Press and Politics at Princeton University, and in 2009 served as the Rhodes Visiting Professor at Arizona State University.

Ross Douthat is the youngest op-ed columnist in the history of the New York Times. Representing a new generation of conservative commentators, he enlivens the Times’ editorial pages with his vigorous and penetrating analysis of domestic and international politics and government. He is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, a critique of Harvard as a world of privilege and complacency, and which first brought him attention as an important new voice.

“Jonathan Alter is a diligent political reporter with more sources than the Mississippi.”

Chicago Sun-Times

“Mr. Douthat writes beautifully, with a rare lyricism.”

Wall Street Journal