In conversation with Meir Soloveichik, the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat discusses his teenage conversion to Catholicism—and the experimentation with charismatic Christianity that preceded it—his experience as devout believer at an Ivy League university, trends in American religious life, and the state of American society more generally. (Video, 66 minutes.)

March 15 marks the beginning of this year’s Israel Apartheid Week, during which campus groups around the world hold rallies and events for the purpose of defaming the Jewish state and mustering support for the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction it (BDS). Richard Kemp comments: