Gal Beckerman

Francis Fukuyama has long been considered a naive triumphalist. He now wants to set the record straight.

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

When I was born, the moniker carried a sheen of optimism. So much feels different now.

The private notes of the man who oversaw COVID policy are deeply embarrassing—and surprisingly instructive.

Christopher Nolan’s largely deity-free blockbuster adaptation only highlights the humanity of the original.

PEN America’s president resigned over an article detailing the isolation and exclusion that many Israeli and Jewish writers feel after October 7.

What the wild success of Regime Change, after a long slump in newsy nonfiction, might say about the state of the presidency.

By staging a “spectacle of excess” on the White House lawn, the president expressed the violent essence of his worldview.

As our nation turns 250, it’s worth asking how best to love one’s country.

Leo XIV’s encyclical about artificial intelligence makes a strong argument in favor of human fallibility.

His new book describes the “Great Replacement” theory as a convoluted plot, but fails to explain why it appeals to people in the first place.

The Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman and podcast host Adam Harris discuss Beckerman’s new book, How to Be a Dissident.

We’ve had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach. To understand his influence, think of him first as a dissident.

Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.

Pictures of the Earth from the Artemis II mission offer a sense that humans are united. If only a bellicose president could feel the same.

The festooning of the president’s name and likeness across Washington, D.C., is consistent with authoritarian tendencies.

Trump’s administration has both used and avoided the word war in ways that seek glory and evade responsibility.

Both loyalists and dissidents wept over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. This common reaction to a tyrant’s demise is a symptom of the damage they do.

The public reaction to the violence in Minneapolis suggests that we have held on to our sense of universal truths.

The president’s penchant for gilded statues and self-glorification might at least help clarify the nature of his leadership.