Welcome to episode 10 of the Alaska interview, brought to you by listener-supported World

Radio. I'm your host, Jill Nelson. Today, Marvin talks with author and New York Times columnist

Ross Dauphett. Dauphid is a devout Catholic who writes about politics, religion, and higher education from a conservative viewpoint.

Here now to preview this conversation with me is World Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky.

Hi, Marvin.

Hi, Jill.

Now, Douthit just recently turned 40, but this interview took place back in 2011 when he was just 31.

I'm guessing that makes him one of the younger people you've interviewed in a public setting like this?

Yes, and also one of the people who's persevered now for a decade in a very difficult environment.

Tell us a little bit about his faith background.

He's written a lot about American Christianity.

What was his spiritual upbringing?

From what he's told me and what he's written, he grew up in a United Nations of Religion.

There was a mix of Episcopalianism, Pentecostalism, Roman Catholicism, all these things swirling around.

And I suspect that gave him some experience of working, learning from people with different

backgrounds.

So what made you interested in interviewing Dauzit?

Number one, he's in a very influential position right now.

The New York Times is no longer in New York newspaper.

It's really a national newspaper. In some ways, a world newspaper, and he has a prominent

position on the editorial page or the op-ed page. So that's important in it of itself. But I'm also

curious, and I was curious about his personal situation there. He's going to the New York Times as a conservative,

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