Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman is an American writer and senior editor at The Atlantic. He wrote articles on Ukraine-Russia conflict, social justice in America, and the 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie. Previously, he was an editor for the New York Times Book Review.

Beckerman earned a Media Studies PhD from Columbia University with a 2021 thesis On the Incubation of Radical Ideas: A Communications History.His thesis advisors were Todd Gitlin and Michael Schudson.

Beckerman, his wife and two daughters live in Brooklyn.

• When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2010. ISBN 9780618573097
• The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Crown, New York, 2022. ISBN 9781524759186