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.