ERIC ALTERMAN is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Director of Scholarship for the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR). He is also a “contributing writer” to the The Nation and The American Prospect, as well as a frequent contributor to The New Republic,. In addition to having been The Nation’s media columnist for 25 years, he was, simultaneously, a regular columnist for Moment, The Forward, Rolling Stone, The American Prospect, The Guardian and MSNBC as well as an occasional contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Alterman is the author of twelve books, including the national bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News and We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel, which was added to The New Yorker‘s best books of the year in 2022 after the list was made. A winner of the George Orwell Prize and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice), Alterman holds a PhD in US history from Stanford (with a minor in Jewish Studies), an M.A. in international relations from Yale, and a B.A. from Cornell.
