Friendship in the Margins
Through the letters they exchanged and their shared love for used books, Helene Hanff and Frank Dole developed a lifelong friendship from an ocean apart.
Through the letters they exchanged and their shared love for used books, Helene Hanff and Frank Dole developed a lifelong friendship from an ocean apart.
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Ross Douthat is a former senior editor of The Atlantic and current Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He is also the author of Privilege: Harvard Education and the Ruling Class (2005), Grand New Party (2008, with Reihan Salam), and Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics 2012). Douthat spoke with Fare Forward’s editor-in-chief about how Americans think about religion, Christianity in the Trump presidency, and the future of Christianity and liberalism. The following is an edited version of their conversation.