Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic. Formerly an editor at The New York Times Book Review, he is the author of The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 2022. His previous book, When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. He has a PhD in media studies from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two daughters.
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