Ross is a 2002 graduate of Harvard University and Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Before Ross joined The Times in April 2009, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger for theatlantic.com. His most recent book is Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press, 2012).

He is also the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). He is the film critic for National Review. In June, Ross “returned home” to Hamden Hall and served as keynote speaker at 2013 Commencement. With humor, Ross recounted his time under the pines where he launched his writing career as editor of  an “underground” newspaper. In 2011, Ross was back at Hamden Hall to honor his classmate and fellow Times writer Michael Barbaro 1998 with an inaugural Alumni Achievement Award. Ross and his wife, Abigail, live in Washington, D.C. They have two daughters. Gwendolyn, 2, and Eleanor, 8 months.