Staff writer at @TheAtlantic, formerly @nytimesbooks, and author of "How to Be a Dissident."
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I’ve spent the past year on a search. How do we push back against the forces that feel like they are crushing us right now? How do we resist the dehumanization of our politics, our technology? The answers came from people who pushed back before us: the dissidents...🧵
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NAZA, a provocative Israeli documentary, should make viewers think about their own moral parameters—instead, it distances them from the war in Gaza, @GalBeckerman writes. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Read @galbeckerman's "How to Be a Dissident" in one day. The topic he deals with is quite similar to the one in my new book. The definition of what we mean is accordingly similar too: a dissident or - in my case - the renegade or outlaw for freedom has "to sit apart". (1/2)
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At The Atlantic Festival, @galbeckerman spoke with the translator Emily Wilson about the pleasures and blind spots of translation, and the backlash to her review of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey.” theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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At The Atlantic Festival, @galbeckerman spoke with the translator Emily Wilson about the pleasures and blind spots of translation, and the backlash to her review of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey.” theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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Play today’s Rabbithole, which begins with this question from @galbeckerman’s article on presidential self-reflection. theatln.tc/M1QYA6pK
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Trump’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers that the AI mirror presents to all of us, @galbeckerman argues. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Trump’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers that the AI mirror presents to all of us, @galbeckerman argues. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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The festooning of Donald Trump’s name and likeness across Washington, D.C., is consistent with authoritarian tendencies, @galbeckerman argues: These are leaders who “like to have their face in your face.”
Read more, and view a collection of images taken across the nation’s capital: theatln.tc/hJgddK7H?taid=2d5…
📸: Carolyn Van Houten theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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"Com ser un dissident", de Gal Beckerman. Traducció Edgar Cotes. Punts de vista 7.
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Francis Fukuyama wants you to know that he was never a naive triumphalist, @galbeckerman writes. Beckerman on Fukuyama’s new memoir and why the end of history is so miserable: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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Francis Fukuyama wants you to know that he was never a naive triumphalist, @galbeckerman writes. Beckerman on Fukuyama’s new memoir and why the end of history is so miserable: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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"Com ser un dissident", de Gal Beckerman. Traducció Edgar Cotes. Punts de vista 7.
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Many tech billionaires who grew up on science fiction are intent on building dystopian technology, @galbeckerman argues. He writes about a new book by Jill Lepore that explores how they took the wrong lessons from their favorite novels: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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Many tech billionaires who grew up on science fiction are intent on building dystopian technology, @galbeckerman argues. He writes about a new book by Jill Lepore that explores how they took the wrong lessons from their favorite novels: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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"Com ser un dissident", de Gal Beckerman. Traducció Edgar Cotes. Punts de vista 7.
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Born into a period of optimism, “bicentennial babies” such as @galbeckerman have seen life follow “a distinct arc over the past 50 years: one of disillusionment,” he writes. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Born into a period of optimism, “bicentennial babies” such as Gal Beckerman have seen life follow “a distinct arc over the past 50 years: one of disillusionment,” he writes. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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For the Bicentennial Babies out there...
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"La calma abans de la tempesta", de Gal Beckerman. Traducció Mireia Alegre. Punts de vista 2.
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This story is wild. You really just have to read it. @danengber's latest: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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