Ethics and Culture Cast Creators & Guests

Ross Douthat is an opinion writer at The New York Times and the film critic for National Review. He is the author of two books, “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics” (2012), and “Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class” (2005).

Arthur C. Brooks is a social scientist, musician, contributing opinion writer for The Washington Post, and President of the American Enterprise Institute.

James Hankins is an American intellectual historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance.

George Weigel is a Catholic neoconservative American author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, and Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace.